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Political Theory PhD Student, UCLA
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Such an important article. Delegitimizing expertise and demoralizing workers are the main goals of AI boosterism
From Tressie McMillan Cotton's op ed "This isn’t the first time institutions pivoted from concern to tech acceptance. The same thing happened in the 2010s with massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Tech evangelists promised that we would not need as many professors, for one expert could teach tens of thousands online! But MOOCs were a mid technology that could barely augment, much less replace, deep expertise. Receiving information is not the same as developing the facility to use it. That did not stop universities from downsizing experts or from making online videos. Now MOOCs have faded from glory, but in most cases, the experts haven’t returned. A.I. is already promising that we won’t need institutions or expertise. It does not just speed up the process of writing a peer review of research; it also removes the requirement that one has read or understood the research it is reviewing. A.I.’s ultimate goal, according to boosters like Cuban, is to upskill workers — make them more productive — while delegitimizing degrees. Another way to put that is that A.I. wants workers who make decisions based on expertise without an institution that creates and certifies that expertise. Expertise without experts."
March 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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This is deeply embarrassing
Screenshot of the promotional image for a UCLA course with an AI generated textbook. Notably the AI generated text is titled "Of Nerniacular Latin To An Evoolitun of Nance Languages"
December 9, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Many things to comment upon, but one might be why the NYPD has one of these ready to go? A friend described it as a "siege tower"
Screenshot of the NY times website showing police entering a Columbia building on siege-tower like machine/vehicle
May 1, 2024 at 3:02 AM