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speaking of ironies of automation 😆

Many students realize that “AI” use in academia leads to deskilling. Here is some of what they say themselves: www.voxweb.nl/en/they-are-...

Great, thanks! I've been thinking to write something myself after mi uni decided recently that they are going to embrace AI without a critical reasoning.

This has increasingly been my experience. Students are becoming very suspicious of AI technology, in part because the very real problems with it are being publicly aired and explained by experts like yourself. Most students want to learn rather than cheat, so we need to set expectations accordingly.

Absolutely! Note in the open letter: "As a marketing strategy to introduce such tools in the classroom, companies falsely claim that students are lazy or lack writing skills. We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.” @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

Totally agree (and have already signed the letter). The trouble is that many university leaders have already drunk the genAI kool-aid, with considerable incentives and misinformation from leading tech companies, and are now trying to force it into every aspect of academic life.

I appreciate your efforts in helping academics to find our voice in this, as uncritical adoption is not in the interests of universities or students, whatever marketing claims AI vendors might make for their products.

Indeed the reason we (i.e., @olivia.science) initiated this open letter to our own university leadership. We need our leadership to stand for academic standards, ethical principles, didactical responsibilities, and get the industry funding and harmful tech-push out of our universities.