I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.
Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared.
I love these students & I am worried.
Same here. My colleagues also are experiencing this. We talked about it at a recent faculty meeting and wondered what to do
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad.
LLMs warned people the illness was real.
go.nature.com/4mDXXka
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social with all the right words, in the right order: "language is ultimately how we build community with one another. A world of LLM communication is a colder, blander one devoid of incidental human empathy and original thought."
Reminds me of my mid career arrival as a full professor: my graduate students aksing me to please leave the the lab as I was getting in their way. Ah, I thought, I have finally succeeded
I'm almost there ...
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
More and more organizations are coming out against AI in schools.
He was ever the optimist. Time will tell if he was a prophet
HISTORICAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: These people have been dispossessed of the fruits of their own labor for centuries. They were denied the opportunity to build generational wealth and influence. We will strive to correct this.
MAGA AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Give me money because I like to say the N-word
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car
To adapt the FDA language...
"This encounter has not been evaluated by anyone. This PR stunt is not intended to depict, simulate, mimic, or reproduce any actual delivery.”
“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS.
The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.
So my husband is doing interviews to hire a new HR person and already it’s become VERY obvious which candidates are using chatbots to conduct their interviews. It’s…not going well for them.
Share it with us all or it didn't happen 🤣
The kids are alright
The bottom 95% of taxpayers will see tax INCREASES on average this year, driven primarily by expanded tariffs and expiration of health insurance credits.
Meanwhile, the richest 1% alone will receive $117 billion in tax CUTS in 2026.
Never forget who Trump governs for.
Guardrails are a scam!
“We have also continued to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive moments, working closely with mental health clinicians.”
It's impossible cos that's full blown cognition: either the lie is the automation (instead indentured labour is used) or they're fully fibbing.
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Nicolai Tangen in . Following Chief Executive Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management 2w Top 10 Things I Learned from meeting CEOs in New York in November: Al Isn't Optional Anymore-But Adoption Is Hard Washington Is the New Full-Time Job The War for Talent Has Changed Innovation Is Creating "Winner-Take-Most" Markets Geography Matters More Than Ever The Employment Paradox Cybersecurity Is a Daily Battle We're Losing Quantum Computing Is Closer Than You Think CN China: From "Made in China" to "Invented in China" Hidden Risks in Private Credit 10 things from USA. 10 pages 1. Al Isn't Optional Anymore-But Adoption Is Hard Every CEO sees Al as fundamental to future competitiveness. The surprise? Internal resistance is fierce. They described the pattern perfectly: one-third of people embrace it immediately, one-third adopt after seeing results, and the final third resist. The solution? Remove the leaders of the resistant groups. The message is clear: Al adoption is now a leadership capability test. > 1/10 Tell Muenzing and 1,462 others 66 comments 63 reposts
A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them
archive.ph/r0u2r
You cannot stop this with guardrails, it just has to be shut down. Anything else is lying.
I've been quietly removing tech from my school library since I took over 6 years ago. I thought people would be annoyed, but it's been great. Adults have barely noticed, and the students have responded well.
A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
GenAI dipshits are still at that stage of the scam where they keep insisting how useful it is as an accessibility aid (the next stage is insisting it helps the global south), and no it fucking isn't.
GenAI actively *destroys* accessibility tools like captions and alt text.
The one aspect of my job as an educator that I have always disliked: assessment. The system makes you grade them - rank them - because that is what they come out of it with: A GPA that defines what their opportunities will be.
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