You’re right about how stacked the AI advisory committee is with IT VPs. But I do appreciate this line: “…with little rigorous evidence of educational benefits and mounting concerns that chatbots are spreading misinformation and eroding critical thinking.”

Thanks for sharing this article! I missed it somehow… I appreciate that the student interviewed knew that she was getting both training and “propaganda.”

Scrapping the faculty senate and hiring a president without faculty input… This is obviously not solving an ideological bias problem (the cover story), it’s creating a microcosm of the authoritarian state.

A coffee crawl of cute cafes could be in order, too…

^ The rocket that caused the cloud formation you saw. In the video, you can even see little pieces (stages?) coming off the rocket.

You might find this interesting…

If this is the same one, it was just caused by a rocket launch.

That’s my carry on, tucked in the corner. And, Reader, I got it back.

100%! Every time I’m there, it feels like a little archival miracle…

I’m seven sentences in and already finding this useful. Thx!

OMWN…

Yeah. The rhetoric seems directed at workers, but the pitch is clearly to management…

While I imagine it’s already on your list, I always say that the “Stochastic Parrots” article is a great place to start for anyone who wants to go down the rabbit hole of critical AI study. For length and complexity I’d call it intermediate?

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Super interesting… Thanks!

Wrong Sweeney! 😂