I just posted on AI Ethics and Policy to my blog as a reference for some of the work we are doing on campus around AI and for our AI courses. It is not just academic papers but also tools for thinking about how ed tech in general is rolled out. It is important to think about whose voices get heard in these decisions and how we gather them together. If you have a reading or resource around AI, ethics, and policy that you feel is essential, I would love to see it. Thanks!
https://geoffcain.com/blog/a-short-annotated-reading-list-for-ai-ethics-and-policy/
Clover Park Technical College is looking for two instructional designers for project positions. I work as an Instructional Designer at Clover Park and I can tell you it is an excellent place to work!
https://geoffcain.com/blog/instructional-design-positions-at-clover-park/
Playing with voice cloning. I am interested in it for the accessibility, but there are a lot more uses for it. - AI: an "F" for Fake:
@Downes I like this a lot. I think this is good work, but to be a true futurist article it needs more monetizable breathless hyperbole - maybe ChatGPT could help with that. 😃
I haven't seen much in the way of education predictions for 2024 except for the all too predictable corporate sales pitches. I think COVID and AI may have something to do with that: https://geoffcain.com/blog/edu-predictions-where-is-my-conveyor-belt-sidewalk/
One of the problems with asking companies "Can that data be connected back to the students themselves?" is that the algorithms that can correlate large, seemingly unrelated data are now so complex that the companies can always say "no" and still mean "yes." Beware "data analytics partners"! #AI #privacy #FERPA
Some of the most intelligent writing on #ethics and #AI are from Abeba Birhane (@abebab) of the Mozilla Foundation. She was interviewed on France24 this morning. Her work is here: https://abebabirhane.com/
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.Â
- Sydney J. Harris
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I am also frustrated as a teacher (not afraid) that removing the work of thinking seems to be the answer (to what I am not sure). The work of reasoning out an argument does not need to be off-loaded.
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And we have "thought leaders" and "futurists" who are talking about what we should be doing in education about climate change one week and then pushing technologies from OpenAI the next when OpenAI's carbon footprint is horrendous. I understand that there are worse industries but I am expecting more from educators. We have been doing a lot of work around DEI issues and OpenAI's ChatGPT does not seem like a solution. The answer to systemic racism isn't more of the same.
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I essentially agree with you - n.b: I also know that you are capable of some formidably reasonable arguments - I used your logical fallacies work in my Eng. 101 classes back in the day :-) I shouldn't paint all of AI with the same brush. I am most disappointed in the edu sector's non-critical embrace of the company OpenAI. I work in the community/tech colleges and it seems like all of the work we have been doing in DEI and accessibility just goes out the window for the latest thing.