Guest Forum: Nicholas Birns "On Generative AI, Prompt Chaining, and Resisting Epistemological Indifference" - Critical AI A few months ago, my wife and I took an online course on how to use ChatGPT4o. The course, within its terms, was well delivered. But as a literary critic who has taught writing at the college level fo...

#CriticalAI happy to share a new blog post in which @nicholasbirns.bsky.social traces his pathway from a "prompt chaining" workshop, to developing #criticalAIliteracies and ideas about how to re-energize the study of literature and writing: criticalai.org/2026/03/18/g...

Project Overview ‹ Your Brain on ChatGPT – MIT Media Lab Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…

The need to instill #criticalAIliteracies among our students and the public at large is an ongoing challenge for all of us--but a particular burden on educators.

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From today's @nytimes.com:

Teaching #criticalAIliteracies means recognizing that such "writing" marks a catastrophic loss for human cultural diversity and an individual student's chance for self-efficacy and judgment.

Fortunately, higher ed has begun to get the memo.

We've been saying for years now that NYT needs to edit ALL reporting on "AI" for minimal standards of accuracy; otherwise it miseducate and confuses its readers on an important topic. "AI" is a marketing term.
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Department Statement on AI The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st

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Check out #RutgersEnglishDepartment Statement on AI. We think its a model for how to set up foundations for #criticalAIliteracies

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New resources for teaching #criticalAIliteracies!

Slides from a recent webinar on Gen AI and musicians along w/ links to the webinar itself. Lauren Goodlad, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @futureofmusic.bsky.social, and
Marc Ribot talk about tech and its impacts!

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#CriticalAIliteracies happy to reshare our #STUDENTGUIDE now being used on six continents!

Those seeking resources for teaching #CriticalAIliteracies; download our new GUIDE FOR STUDENTS t.co/xB29yJRr5t

Discuss in conjunction w/ our living document: #TEACHINGCRITICALAILITERACIES t.co/FASVOe0vIP

And what better way to follow an important visualization of data than with a pithy quotation from @abeba.bsky.social.

We'll soon be publishing a "starter kit" for teaching #CRITICALAILITERACIES in time for the new semester :) j/j

This BLOOMBERG article got some attention last June but is worth reviewing for teaching #CRITICALAILITERACIES: it demonstrates how simple it is to probe text-to-image for their outrageous bias. /a

More #RisingAuthoritarianism courtesy of @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @tpm.bsky.social.

Hardly a time to shut down #criticalthinking of any kind; rather, ensure those #criticalAIliteracies necessary to empower ppl to recognize the surveillant/authoritarian structures built into generative AI.

Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the state of New Jersey’s preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education.

(Read Allison & Tiffany Derewal's forthcoming CAI paper on the PITFALLS OF CHATBOT "RESEARCH" which is developed from their excellent talk at our #CRITICALAILITERACIES event, which you can listen to.) /o

Events – Critical AI (rutgers.edu)

Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the state of New Jersey’s preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education.

(Read Allison & Tiffany Derewal's forthcoming CAI paper on the PITFALLS OF CHATBOT "RESEARCH" which is developed from their excellent talk at our #CRITICALAILITERACIES event, which you can listen to.) /o

Events – Critical AI (rutgers.edu)

Festival crowd boos at video of conference speakers gushing about how great AI is The crowd at a SXSW screening booed at a video telling people to "stop resisting" AI advances and embrace them.

Feel the #criticalAIliteracies growing?