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Hannah Locke
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Ecologist & Educator. Earl Grey & Democracy Devotee. My inner ecosystem is a coastal salt marsh. 📍La Salle University (Philly)
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carlbergstrom.com
7. The paper looks at how researchers might hand off boring "drudge work" such as data collection and cleaning to AI agents, and what could (and IMO will) go wrong as they do so.

Here's a key passage.
Critically, we argue that the very framing of certain AI applications around themes of productivity, efficiency, speed, convenience, and ease can conflict with their thoughtful and rigorous situated consideration — itself a somewhat laborious exercise. Precisely because convenience is the key appeal of some AI tools, researchers who adopt these methods have little incentive to question them and investigate in detail the epistemic implications of adopting them – or privileging them over other approaches. Convenience AI can be dangerous because, motivated by speed and ease, it can instil complacency into the use of given tools and lower the depth and frequency of critical scrutiny
August 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Reposted by Hannah Locke
dryad.technology
What frightens me is when they say "X could be replaced by AI" they don't mean "AI could do the work of X" they mean "we could replace the work of X with incorrect, randomly generated filler, and no one would stop us". What would the side effects be? They don't care, they already cashed the check.
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Rather than defend faculty against the new law's intrusions on academic freedom, IU is telling faculty that they have to be ready to defend their own pedagogical choices. Including choices about what content to cover or not cover in class.

vpfaa.indiana.edu/doc/SEA-202-...
Slide from IU VPFAA saying "faculty must be able to defend their content selections through articulation of how the content aligns with discipline requirements/expectations."
August 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM