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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 11d
I have a short piece about what I've learned from teaching my AI course in this @chronicle.com forum on how AI is changing higher ed, along with some very interesting reflections from others, including a lovely piece on why writing matters by @zey.bsky.social . www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
www.chronicle.com
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Went down rabbit hole trying to predict how AI overviews get things wrong but could not have predicted this one. I never taught at Vassar; she didn't go there; we don't know each other. The source mentions her once, someone else named Rosenzweig, not Vassar. But people use these results as fact.
AI Overview Jane Rosenzweig and Olivia Nuzzi's relationship stems from their time at Vassar College, where Rosenzweig was Nuzzi's professor and the director of the college's Writing Center. Olivia Nuzzi, now a prominent political journalist for New York Magazine, has publicly cited Jane Rosenzweig as a significant influence and mentor in her education and career. Nuzzi has mentioned that Rosenzweig taught her fundamental journalistic skills, such as interviewing techniques and developing story ideas, during her time at Vassar. Their professional relationship highlights the mentor-mentee dynamic between a college professor and a student who went on to achieve success in her field.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Went down rabbit hole trying to predict how AI overviews get things wrong but could not have predicted this one. I never taught at Vassar; she didn't go there; we don't know each other. The source mentions her once, someone else named Rosenzweig, not Vassar. But people use these results as fact.
AI Overview Jane Rosenzweig and Olivia Nuzzi's relationship stems from their time at Vassar College, where Rosenzweig was Nuzzi's professor and the director of the college's Writing Center. Olivia Nuzzi, now a prominent political journalist for New York Magazine, has publicly cited Jane Rosenzweig as a significant influence and mentor in her education and career. Nuzzi has mentioned that Rosenzweig taught her fundamental journalistic skills, such as interviewing techniques and developing story ideas, during her time at Vassar. Their professional relationship highlights the mentor-mentee dynamic between a college professor and a student who went on to achieve success in her field.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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If you are using google AI overviews for medical advice, cooking advice, car advice, any advice, note that this is not a PhD level intelligence but a word prediction machine that draws from separate articles in the same NYT evening newsletter to produce output like this mixture of multiple stories.
Specifically: A recent article mentions Nuzzi's concern over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health issues, noting that a "concern over lover RFK Jr.'s brain worm had him soothing ... Larry Summers in July 2018—went unanswered". This context is related to Nuzzi's recent personal and professional controversies rather than any direct interaction or connection between her and Summers. Another piece related to Nuzzi's situation mentions that the late Jeffrey Epstein unsuccessfully tried to reach out to figures like Larry Summers and Reid Hoffman.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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No entry level jobs, no opportunity to get experience doesn't seem like a great recipe for society. @nymag.com: nymag.com/intelligence...
If the number of entry-level jobs dwindles across industries, naturally, the supply of experienced employees will wane. Without entry-level positions, how will the next generation of middle managers and executives get training? Millennials would be the last keepers of unwritten workplace knowledge, the intangible lessons and institutional know-how that haven’t been, or can’t be, fed into LLMs. What would the economy look like then?
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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A great thing about kids having imaginary friends is that their conversations are based on the kid's understanding of the world not on training data. futurism.com/artificial-i...
After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes. In the resulting report, the researchers warn that the integration of AI into toys opens up entire new avenues of risk that we’re barely beginning to scratch the surface of — and just in time for the winter holidays, when huge numbers of parents and other relatives are going to be buying presents for kids online without considering the novel safety issues involved in exposing children to AI.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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A great thing about kids having imaginary friends is that their conversations are based on the kid's understanding of the world not on training data. futurism.com/artificial-i...
After testing three different toys powered by AI, researchers from the US Public Interest Research Group found that the playthings can easily verge into risky conversational territory for children, including telling them where to find knives in a kitchen and how to start a fire with matches. One of the AI toys even engaged in explicit discussions, offering extensive advice on sex positions and fetishes. In the resulting report, the researchers warn that the integration of AI into toys opens up entire new avenues of risk that we’re barely beginning to scratch the surface of — and just in time for the winter holidays, when huge numbers of parents and other relatives are going to be buying presents for kids online without considering the novel safety issues involved in exposing children to AI.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1
A degree in CS mostly prepares students to become computer scientists, just as a history degree mostly prepares students to be historians. The idea is not that every student will become an academic— few do—but that the initial training in this direction will prepare students for varied pursuits. When the world changes, Erat argues, the student who studied CS will have the creativity to “learn how to search, how to integrate things.” But for the student who just used AI to make programs, he said, “It’s going to be impossible.” Conversely, CS professor Lin Zhong thinks Yale’s core CS curriculum is “stuck in the 1980s.” He wants students to develop the AI expertise that they would need as professional software engineers. “If your student[s] don’t learn how to use [AI], they lose their job,” he said. Students in Zhong’s Computer Systems Design course earn extra credit for using AI creatively to do their homework.
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
janerosenzweig.bsky.social
This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1
A degree in CS mostly prepares students to become computer scientists, just as a history degree mostly prepares students to be historians. The idea is not that every student will become an academic— few do—but that the initial training in this direction will prepare students for varied pursuits. When the world changes, Erat argues, the student who studied CS will have the creativity to “learn how to search, how to integrate things.” But for the student who just used AI to make programs, he said, “It’s going to be impossible.” Conversely, CS professor Lin Zhong thinks Yale’s core CS curriculum is “stuck in the 1980s.” He wants students to develop the AI expertise that they would need as professional software engineers. “If your student[s] don’t learn how to use [AI], they lose their job,” he said. Students in Zhong’s Computer Systems Design course earn extra credit for using AI creatively to do their homework.
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Interesting that an AI introduced to avoid corruption is being framed as a human who has given nepo baby jobs to her 83 kids. www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...
By Euronews Published on 30/10/2025 - 12:14 GMT+1 Share Comments Diella, the country’s first AI system that is now a minister in Edi Rama’s cabinet, will have 83 “children,” who will become parliamentary assistants. Albania’s first non-human minister made up entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) is “pregnant” with 83 children that will become parliamentary assistants, according to the country’s prime minister. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama toldthe Global Dialogue Forum in Berlin that the parliamentary assistants will participate in parliamentary sessions, keep notes on what goes on and then give advice to members on how they should react to specific pieces of legislation. “These children will have their mother’s knowledge regarding EU legislation and everything else,” Rama said. “This child will say what was said when [the member] is not in the hall and if [the member’s] name was mentioned and [they] have to counterattack someone who mentioned you for the wrong reasons,” he added.
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Interesting that an AI introduced to avoid corruption is being framed as a human who has given nepo baby jobs to her 83 kids. www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...
By Euronews Published on 30/10/2025 - 12:14 GMT+1 Share Comments Diella, the country’s first AI system that is now a minister in Edi Rama’s cabinet, will have 83 “children,” who will become parliamentary assistants. Albania’s first non-human minister made up entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) is “pregnant” with 83 children that will become parliamentary assistants, according to the country’s prime minister. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama toldthe Global Dialogue Forum in Berlin that the parliamentary assistants will participate in parliamentary sessions, keep notes on what goes on and then give advice to members on how they should react to specific pieces of legislation. “These children will have their mother’s knowledge regarding EU legislation and everything else,” Rama said. “This child will say what was said when [the member] is not in the hall and if [the member’s] name was mentioned and [they] have to counterattack someone who mentioned you for the wrong reasons,” he added.
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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today in automation. discuss
📚 Teachers & Counselors — this one’s for you! If you’re swamped writing college recommendation letters right now, you need to try educator.kollegio.ai 💡 Upload your brag sheets (or use their built-in template) and let AI help you: ✍️ Draft personalized rec letters faster 🪄 Polish and organize with real-time suggestions 📄 Download as a ready-to-send PDF Save hours this application season — it’s 100% free and built with feedback from real counselors & teachers 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 #KollegioAI #EducatorTools #TeacherLife #CounselorResources #CollegeAdmissions #LetterOfRecommendation #EdTech #AIforEducation
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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today in automation. discuss
📚 Teachers & Counselors — this one’s for you! If you’re swamped writing college recommendation letters right now, you need to try educator.kollegio.ai 💡 Upload your brag sheets (or use their built-in template) and let AI help you: ✍️ Draft personalized rec letters faster 🪄 Polish and organize with real-time suggestions 📄 Download as a ready-to-send PDF Save hours this application season — it’s 100% free and built with feedback from real counselors & teachers 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 #KollegioAI #EducatorTools #TeacherLife #CounselorResources #CollegeAdmissions #LetterOfRecommendation #EdTech #AIforEducation
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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This does not seem like efficiency: "proposals written with the platform’s native AI-writing tool exhibit a negative correlation between effort and signal, and signals no longer predict successful job completion"
Leveraging this unique setting, we provide new descriptive evidence that LLMs have dis- rupted previously informative labor market signaling. We organize our descriptive evidence into three main findings. First, we show that before the mass adoption of LLMs, employers had a sig- nificantly higher willingness to pay for workers who sent more customized proposals. Estimating a reduced-form multinomial logit model of employer demand using our measure of signal, we find that, all else equal, workers with a one standard deviation higher signal have the same in- creased chance of being hired as workers with a $26 lower bid.1 Second, we provide evidence that before the adoption of LLMs, employers valued workers’ signals because signals were predictive of workers’ effort, which in turn predicted workers’ ability to complete the posted job success- fully. Third, we find, however, that after the mass adoption of LLMs, these patterns weaken significantly or disappear completely: employer willingness to pay for workers sending higher signals falls sharply, proposals written with the platform’s native AI-writing tool exhibit a nega- tive correlation between effort and signal, and signals no longer predict successful job completion conditional on being hired. Taken together, these findings suggest that workers’ job-specific pro- posals functioned as Spence-like signals of worker ability prior to the advent of generative AI, but that LLMs disrupted this signaling mechanism on which employers previously relied to make hiring decisions.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
janerosenzweig.bsky.social
This does not seem like efficiency: "proposals written with the platform’s native AI-writing tool exhibit a negative correlation between effort and signal, and signals no longer predict successful job completion"
Leveraging this unique setting, we provide new descriptive evidence that LLMs have dis- rupted previously informative labor market signaling. We organize our descriptive evidence into three main findings. First, we show that before the mass adoption of LLMs, employers had a sig- nificantly higher willingness to pay for workers who sent more customized proposals. Estimating a reduced-form multinomial logit model of employer demand using our measure of signal, we find that, all else equal, workers with a one standard deviation higher signal have the same in- creased chance of being hired as workers with a $26 lower bid.1 Second, we provide evidence that before the adoption of LLMs, employers valued workers’ signals because signals were predictive of workers’ effort, which in turn predicted workers’ ability to complete the posted job success- fully. Third, we find, however, that after the mass adoption of LLMs, these patterns weaken significantly or disappear completely: employer willingness to pay for workers sending higher signals falls sharply, proposals written with the platform’s native AI-writing tool exhibit a nega- tive correlation between effort and signal, and signals no longer predict successful job completion conditional on being hired. Taken together, these findings suggest that workers’ job-specific pro- posals functioned as Spence-like signals of worker ability prior to the advent of generative AI, but that LLMs disrupted this signaling mechanism on which employers previously relied to make hiring decisions.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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"I feel much more connected to my students after having engaged with them on this book and reading their journals...I have not felt this energy in a classroom since 2022."

I love this so much 🥹
janerosenzweig.bsky.social Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 4d
We're back! Today in The Important Work, Helen Choi and Vance Ricks write about assigning @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI to their students in courses where they had not previously assigned books--and how it went. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/we-made-ou...
We made our students read a book!
And we'd do it again
theimportantwork.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
janerosenzweig.bsky.social
We're back! Today in The Important Work, Helen Choi and Vance Ricks write about assigning @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI to their students in courses where they had not previously assigned books--and how it went. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/we-made-ou...
We made our students read a book!
And we'd do it again
theimportantwork.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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This won me over immediately.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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This won me over immediately.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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We've gone from "can AI make art" to "AI is an artist" quite quickly. www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-1-cou...
The No. 1 Country Song in America Is by a Non-Human Artist
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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We've gone from "can AI make art" to "AI is an artist" quite quickly. www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-1-cou...
The No. 1 Country Song in America Is by a Non-Human Artist
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I have a short piece about what I've learned from teaching my AI course in this @chronicle.com forum on how AI is changing higher ed, along with some very interesting reflections from others, including a lovely piece on why writing matters by @zey.bsky.social . www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
www.chronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I've been reading more about Ohio State's initiatives and saw this on their teaching and learning website. There are a lot of ways to help students at these early stages of the writing process but I'm not sure what problem is solved by producing "reams of raw content."
Potential Benefits It is helpful for educators to consider that generative AI: Provides learners a tool for generating rough drafts, outlines, and brainstorming notes. Generative AI applications like ChatGPT can assist students during the earliest stages of the writing process, auto-generating text for learners who are either stymied by writer’s block or stuck during the brainstorming process. When prompted, these systems can produce reams of raw content (of varying levels of quality and accuracy) that students can further evaluate, interrogate, and research. Using AI tools in this fashion can help students during the difficult preliminary stages of the composition process, creating a workable path toward their own inquiries and investigations (Gero, 2022; Krause, 2022; Weissman, 2023).
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
janerosenzweig.bsky.social
I've been reading more about Ohio State's initiatives and saw this on their teaching and learning website. There are a lot of ways to help students at these early stages of the writing process but I'm not sure what problem is solved by producing "reams of raw content."
Potential Benefits It is helpful for educators to consider that generative AI: Provides learners a tool for generating rough drafts, outlines, and brainstorming notes. Generative AI applications like ChatGPT can assist students during the earliest stages of the writing process, auto-generating text for learners who are either stymied by writer’s block or stuck during the brainstorming process. When prompted, these systems can produce reams of raw content (of varying levels of quality and accuracy) that students can further evaluate, interrogate, and research. Using AI tools in this fashion can help students during the difficult preliminary stages of the composition process, creating a workable path toward their own inquiries and investigations (Gero, 2022; Krause, 2022; Weissman, 2023).
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
janerosenzweig.bsky.social
Also: another good argument for teaching everyone, beginning with kids, how LLMs work, how they're trained, what their output would look like without the existence of human art (or as it's often called these days, "training data.")
susannashore.bsky.social Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 14d
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This essay is worth a read (by a college student in Ontario). macleans.ca/education/ai...
A common argument in favour of AI is that it helps protect our time and energy and increase efficiency. But to me, the idea of a world where we’re conditioned to trade hard work for convenience is scary. The whole point of university is to broaden our minds and push ourselves to do difficult things. What people once got lost in—late-night readings, the contemplation of century-old ideas, the labour of love that goes into writing an essay—has vanished almost overnight. Living your life outside of academic responsibilities is important, but with generative AI, the mantra “work smarter, not harder” has taken on a whole new life force. What was meant to be a place of higher learning has turned into a degree mill, fuelled by quick fixes, avoidance and instant reward, all using the same singular employee: ChatGPT.
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM