Artificial Intelligence
By “Artificial Intelligence,” I mean the shit currently (in 2025) being called “AI” – ChatGPT and other LLM chatbots and AI that generates images, like Midjourney or music. This page is where I’ll be collecting articles that I’m chewing on about the subject. I’m grouping the links I’ve collected into rough topical clusters.
Authorship
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- Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT: Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
It is our job to try to help students to acquire one of the central skills we’re teaching in any humanities discipline: how to think via writing. Effectively turning a blind eye to students’ use of generative AI to write their essays is a serious abdication of professional responsibility. And while I don’t believe we can police that usage currently (at least without being discriminatory against non-native English speakers), we can approach our task differently. I intend to structure assessment in my undergraduate classes so that using AI is not really an option, or hence a temptation.
- Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not An Essay and this interview with its author: ChatGPT repeatedly lied about helping this writer. Some commenters said it was her fault
- Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT: Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
Who Watches the Watchers?
- The Oppenheimer Principle revisited – “the big social media companies know just how much damage their platforms are doing, especially to teenage girls, but they do not care.”
People Are Dying