Exactly, and no worries at all! And I agree, the worst kind of feedback is "this is great" with nothing further. What a waste of opportunity, for either person.

But anyway, I just needed to explain that because I didn't want anyone to assume that's always what I say. That's just the last line :)

In case folks reading it think I'm looking down on students with this, I'm really not. I genuinely mean what I say. They're students and they're learning, and I'm here to help. So I do look forward. This journalist is not a student, though.

"I look forward to reading more from you!" Lol

I never take enough NyQuil when I need to take it and always regret it after, so... good job 👏 I hope you feel better soon!

Nice meeting you too! :)

And what I'm saying is, I think bluesky and labor leftists do actually know this. There's a lot of work in union organizing around tech and de-skilling already, and they're right on top of this in many ways (but not all, admittedly).

Agreed. There are a few folks talking about that intersection. We know it's bad tech *and* that it's being widely adopted as if it were good tech, that's what I was getting at.

It's a very specific kind of hype. But then he was talking about the job losses and implying that's because the hype is... real? He's mixing up problems.

Exactly.
I was trying not to lecture, but I've talked about this before and most of my own audience knows me. Yes, the "doom" spread by AI companies is a sleight of hand that allows them to perform a kind of "care" that doesn't bind them in any way, and covers up already existing harms.

I don't fear AI doing my job better than me. I fear my boss ignorantly believing that AI can do my job better than I can. *That* seems like the real problem. Managers will decimate the economy for no good reason other than they can.

We need you to educate people. "AI" isn't doing anything, companies selling or adopting technical tools of a particular sort are eliminating jobs en masse because they're in a house of cards with nothing at the center. The tools don't replace us. But they're firing people as if they do. We know. 4/4

The left needs to take job loss seriously? Hi there! 👋 We've been in this conversation for years, maybe you didn't know? We know about the layoffs (first-hand!). We're also aware of the deterioration of knowledge, skill, expertise, never mind *quality* of products and services AI companies cause 3/

You're mixing up terms like doomerism and hype to a degree where I don't actually know what you're talking about. Whose doomerism, the "AI will kill us all" people? And is that the hype? Or is it "hype" to talk about AI replacing "white collar work" as you do farther down? You say... 2/

I should probably add, I'm not talking about UCSD necessarily, my work is split among multiple HE systems, campuses and professional development programs right now.

It is awfully myopic, agreed. In the programs I'm in right now, largely around instructional design for asynchronous distance courses, the pressure is constant. It's not even about "what is your AI syllabus policy," that's last year's question. Now it's "how are you integrating AI in your workflow?"