For those of you with elderly parents, watch out. Because of the downgrading of COVID by HHS, an older family member of ours, who is ill with COVID, discovered that his copay for Paxlovid would be $750. Unbelievable.

I'd encourage you to consider my redefinition of so-called "prompt engineering" as "prompt writing," which underscores the necessity of rhetorical knowledge for prompting and evaluating so-called "output":https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02403-w

"Collective intelligence" isn't a term for the tools--it's intended to direct humans back to the fact that it is human intelligence and expertise, amassed and mined, that has led to so-called generative AI.

AI requires expertise & undercuts its development:
“If I lose the skills, how am I going to spot the errors?” Dr. Ahmad asked...[And] what would happen to medical students and residents who are just starting to develop those skills??
“We’re increasingly calling it never-skilling,” Dr. Rodman said.

Thank you. It's not technodeterminist to say that students are using AI, which I wish we'd call "Collective Intelligence" (Herndon). PAIRR recenters CRUCIAL human perspective, which can help increase students' skepticism about AI. Discussing AI literacy readings FIRST is a critical piece of PAIRR.

I'm a PI for a 3-year PAIRR grant w/8 public colleges & universities, and anti-AI hype. (Piece against commercial AI in education forthcoming.) Yet the digital divide is real. Students must learn to critically assess AI output and re-value humans. My own motivation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy to share that my article, “Large Language Models and the Problem of Rhetorical Debt," has been published in AI & Society. I hope it feels empowering to humanists!
doi.org/10.1007/s001...

Please share with ANY college or university administrators... What if this could include much more than the Big 10? senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...