The conscience of AI refusal.
Last month at the Conference for College Composition and Communication, the national conference in the discipline of rhetoric and composition, the following resolution was passed “we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom.” The resolution articulates several concerns that I would…
1000 AI-Generated Plateaus
The question is do we want a “more clear/communicative” version of Deleuze and Guattari? How about ourselves? We wrote Anti-Oedipus together. Since each of us was already multiple, there was always a crowd. We drew on whatever came within range—what was nearest as well as what was farthest. We used pseudonyms to avoid recognition. Why, then, did…
Refusing AI: three Venn diagrams
I’ve been asked to discuss CCCC’s recent resolution on the right to refuse AI. I have already written about it here. From my perspective, this particular resolution is an academic freedom issue within a single discipline and largely focused on one kind of course: first-year composition. As this course is often taught by adjuncts, graduate…
AI literacy and teaching for transference
“Teaching for Transfer” is an operative concept in rhetoric and composition studies that address the concern that the learning experiences of first-year composition courses be transferable to future academic and/or professional writing contexts. It is not a concept without critics, but I would describe it as deeply embedded in disciplinary best practices. Following the basic…
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Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence 