No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.
Very disjointed to read “wearing them seems like a violation of the social contract” next to a breakdown of price and battery life.
I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on
speaking of academic folks boycotting the U.S., over 2,000 mathematicians are petitioning the International Mathematics Union to move its annual conference outside the United States this year over their immigration policies and war in Iran.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
Someone told me all about their great results with thousand-word prompts to write emails and no email I have ever gotten from them has been even half that long
because senior experts who give useful counsel to clients are created through years of practical experience - you can't become an expert without applied knowledge. For some fields, such as accountancy, if current hiring practices continue, we are likely to see a crisis of expertise in 10ish yrs
Accountancy + Add to myFT BDO axes 31 partner roles as AI pressure grows and profits fall Move comes amid downturn for professional services after hiring spree during pandemic BDO BDO's profits fell 7% last year while the average payout for its equity partners declined from £681,000 to £589,000 © Bloomberg Laith Al-Khalaf Published 30 MINUTES AGO 口3 BDO has launched a cull of dozens of UK partners as it seeks to open up senior roles for younger staff at the country's fifth-largest accounting firm.
Ugh, preview didn't unroll. So, received wisdom is that junior accounting jobs are very automatable and senior, more expert roles that might be required to give counsel are not. However this creates a talent pipeline problem ++
Okay, so this is a VERY interesting story on - allegedly - the impact of AI on an accounting firm. Would like to see how this one develops because it's about a legitimate but perhaps counterintuitive focus on talent pipeline giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Palantir's UK head Louis Mosley wants us to believe that tech like theirs is neutral until their clients decide how to use it. People who study science, technology and society have long exposed such arguments as fallacious. My latest column for TNW.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
So when you see stuff like severely over-written Andy Masley substack posts about how GenAI is like 10 seconds of Netflix, remember that the comparison is never to *what its replacing*.
Everyone in the world replacing the timer app with ChatGPT = a HUGE net increase in energy consumption.....
Remember that guy a few months ago who tried to use chatgpt to tell if it was day outside, and racked up an enormous bill because it was polling the server like every 30 seconds to see if it was day yet
I feel this! I went back to "Teaching at the end of the world" a year or so back to see if it helped to think with it, and I felt a bit like "hahaha sweet innocent summer child, how about now"
Not for nothing, this is in keeping with the patriarchal orientation of science.
The first image transmitted over the fledgling internet? A fucking pinup. You know who didn't get much credit? The model who posed for the image.
“The first tell was the file name of the principal brief: ‘CoCounsel Skill Results.’”
oh my god
Yes.
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Wolfo had hot pink zebra print! No fragile masculinity for him. The voids currently are mostly purple for Charlie and green for Andie
Good piece on "Frankenstein citations" in academic publishing, illustrating why the scale of the problem has proven hard to quantify, and why coming up with technical fixes like submission screeners remains more troublesome than it would first seem
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
They don’t want to write. They want to be read. And usually they have no idea what being published entails.
“Go about your business” but also “think of others” are two diametrically opposed statements when it comes to the vast majority of Australians
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."
Microsoft: LOL
if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated
"Roderick Ferguson, the Yale professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, calls this 'conditional hospitality': the university extending the promise of structural legitimacy, then withdrawing it on its own schedule, for its own reasons, without apology."
"As Rooks explains in her book White Money/Black Power, early investment in Black studies favored programs over departments: curricular arrangements rather than independent units with their own hiring authority, degree-granting capacity, and governance structures.
Todays ABC episode of 4 Corners (panorama equivalent) on Australian universities isn’t geoblocked & worth a watch iview.abc.net.au/show/four-co...
Ghosts is cute, I think I would write needles
