Please find below the discussion questions for our next class. The excerpts for the related questions are included above the question. We expect to spend around 10 minutes on each question so we have planned to utilize around an hour of the class. As an icebreaker, please consider the following – What is an app, website, algorithm or system you use regularly — and what do you think it assumes about you? Thank you,Hyojin and Lini Bender, Emily M., et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?.” Excerpt 1 “When we perform risk/benefit analyses of language technology, we must keep in mind how the…

I am sharing an article relevant to our ongoing dialogue about the appropriate AI policy for our course. From the Chronicle of Higher Education (Account set up allows free access to one article a day) – How Are Instructors Talking About AI in Their Syllabi? Summary: The article acknowledges that AI policies are still not an institutional standard and more or less dependent on individual instructors. It discusses the way in which some instructors are addressing AI in their syllabi and the language varies from completely prohibited to conditionally restrictive usage. Interestingly, some instructors utilized generative AI to draft their AI guidelines, possibly reflecting the way they expect AI to…