A beautiful piece of writing. About humanity, pain, loss of parents and loved ones, poetic experiences.. everything that AI is not. And about impressionable minds caught in a death spiral engendered/egged on by insidious "sociotechnical" systems. Thank you for sharing, @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 11mo ago"AI is not capable of artificial imagination. AI will forever be devoid of self-creation and self-extension so long as it lacks the capacity to imagine a world different from that which we’ve codified and fed to it. I do not lose sleep worried that this artificial capacity is imminent."
Empfehlung von Nobelpreisträger Hinton: Politiker sollen dringend starke AI Regulierung einführen und Junge sollen Sanitärinstallateur lernen youtu.be/giT0ytynSqg?...
Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
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I had the pleasure of serving on the OECD 2021 PISA Math Framework Expert group in 2018 that was co-led by Bill Schmidt and Joan Ferrini-Mundy. Such an accomplished academic, and a powerhouse in educational assessment.
AERA@aeraedresearch.bsky.social · last yr.We saddened by the passing of esteemed education scholar William Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt was an AERA Fellow, recipient of the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, and served as chair of the governing board of the AERA-NSF Grants Program.
Wrote about my problems with that World Bank "ai tutoring" study. pershmail.substack.com/p/ai-is-mayb...
AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing
Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper
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In a few months, this World Bank study of "AI tutoring" will have dozens of citations and still be circulating as authoritative "policy relevant" evidence that AI improves learning. Here's a very useful assessment of why it should not be interpreted, cited, or used like that.
Michael Pershan@mpershan.bsky.social · last yr.Wrote about my problems with that World Bank "ai tutoring" study. pershmail.substack.com/p/ai-is-mayb...
"AI is not the lifeline our education system needs. Certainly not right now. What we need—what we’ve needed for decades—is serious investment in teachers, classrooms, infrastructure and support services. And we’re getting the opposite." This is on *Crunchbase*! news.crunchbase.com/edtech/k12-a...
AI Isn’t the Answer To Our Education Crisis — It’s a Distraction
While AI has a role to play in education, it is not the lifeline the American education system needs, argues Aron Solomon of Amplify. What does it need? Support, stability and a system that sees both ...
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All set for my upcoming travel! Looking forward to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s takedown of #AI #hype. @dairinstitute.bsky.social #TheAICon #AICon
Despite the hype, nothing about #AI is inevitable. Humans are making decisions about its use everyday, & we need to convince the ones in charge of our #K12 schools—esp our elementary schools—that the zealous embrace of the latest tech is not the way forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12
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"Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps." www.404media.co/american-sch...
There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
David Malakoff@davidmalakoff.bsky.social · last yr.Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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They say that those who can & cannot use #AI will fuel the next digital divide. There's a corollary to that they're missing— Those who are able to think & problem solve WITHOUT AI vs those totally reliant on AI for their knowledge work will fuel the next intellect/knowledge/economic divide.
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
Ilkka Tuomi has done the digging on this terrible AI in education "evidence" reproduction again over on LinkedIn if you want receipts www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning… | Lucas Wright
"The meta-analysis results of this study confirm the positive impacts of ChatGPT on learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking, while highlighting some variations in eff...
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#ArtificialIntelligence is rapidly becoming a part of our lives. How do we ensure that #teachers and #students are prepared to use these powerful tools? @issuesinst.bsky.social has published the transcript of @shuchig.bsky.social's 2024 #DavidLecture exploring this topic: buff.ly/Cdjp3BR
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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🧠 How is #AI reshaping how we teach & learn? Join us May 8 in Evanston for a full-day symposium on AI, education + learning. Hear from top researchers, educators and writers. 🗣️ Topics: AI in K-12, ethics, writing & more 🔗 http://spr.ly/63328NGXBu #LearningSciences #CompSci
If you're in Chicagoland, tomorrow's symposium promises to offer timely conversation. I'll be presenting work from my dissertation with a poster that's less than pristine thanks to an ill-advised storage choice and predictable jumping on the bed-related shenanigans orchestrated by my dear kids.
School of Education and Social Policy@sesp-nu.bsky.social · last yr.🧠 How is #AI reshaping how we teach & learn? Join us May 8 in Evanston for a full-day symposium on AI, education + learning. Hear from top researchers, educators and writers. 🗣️ Topics: AI in K-12, ethics, writing & more 🔗 http://spr.ly/63328NGXBu #LearningSciences #CompSci
#ArtificialIntelligence is rapidly becoming a part of our lives. How do we ensure that #teachers and #students are prepared to use these powerful tools? @issuesinst.bsky.social has published the transcript of @shuchig.bsky.social's 2024 #DavidLecture exploring this topic: buff.ly/Cdjp3BR
Got an email from Common Sense Education titled, "Making AI and Digital Literacy a Priority." Email cites Trump's EO on AI in K-12 education before touting CSE's "trusted" AI literacy curriculum. I’d add this curriculum is produced in partnership with OpenAI, which, I think, is important context!
If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is. You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · last yr.This week, I spoke with one of the Duolingo contractors impacted by its 'new' AI strategy, and they clarified that 1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators. 2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.
THIS 👇👇 Duolingo engineers addiction. You’re better off finding a human on fivr and actually learning how to speak a foreign language.
raz@raspberry.bsky.social · last yr.As a polyglot, a language teacher, a translator and a linguist: duolingo was never a good resource, and it’s about to become utterly worthless.