ROwFL!

OMG! I can't believe I haven't noticed that before.

Oh no. 'Awakenings' is one of three films that will make me blub like baby. I mean, most of it is the acting, Steve Zaillian's writing and the message, but I can't watch it again the same way if the story is a lie.

The only thing I can see that would keep someone from taking sufficient pride in their work to actually check what they put their name on is workplace performance pressure. Knowledge production should not be a competition, the neoliberalization of academia makes it so - especially in the sciences.

Fedt nok. Jeg er på vej i seng herovre i L.A. og nu kan jeg ikke få Roben og Knuds 'Jesper Klein'-sang ud af hovedet. TAK, MONGGAARD! 😂

Meanwhile, our students are now all getting ChatGPT plus in a deal with OpenAI. Which now leaves the faculty with the extra labor of explaining that there are other alternatives, including open source ones.

A problem I'm seeing is that everyone agrees that we need more AI literacy among both students and faculty, but nobody wants to take the initiative or the time to facilitate it.

Also, I'm actually seeing some ideological resistance to AI among some of my students in tech and society courses.

Duh. Read the alt text, Morten! 🤦

I think I do... Is that John Mitchell?

I love this! I was sworn in together with 5000 other people during the Obama admin, so it's probably not a replacement for that. But still.

Relatedly, I think we should be careful about using terms like "AI Ideology", like "California ideology" or "Silicon Valley ideology." We already have names for these ideologies, like (Anarcho-)Libertarianism. Giving tech its own ideologies isolates it from the wider political context it is part of.

This.

In one of my courses, I give my students Slack and Wise's great write-up on why we should avoid discussing technological vs cultural determinism and instead think in terms of the sociotechnical, as in STS.

It sets a non-absolutist frame for the discussion throughout the semester.

Top post, that one.

What frustrates me is that nobody is willing to say what I suspect most of us are thinking: The problem is neoliberal capitalism. Not capitalism per se, but the brand of capitalism we've suffered through since Reagan.

Tech won't change if people don't change and vice versa. We are co-constituted