Erin’s opening thoughts: This semester, we’ve created a foundation of knowledge around AI systems and their infrastructures as reductions. These probabilistic networks of statistical homogeneity are not artificial and not intelligent. As Kate Crawford puts it, there’s two pillars of mythology at work in AI discourse: I think these two pieces offer a compelling framework for artwork and creativity within AI systems. For one, we’ve spoken at length about the dangers of anthropomorphizing these systems, as it’s essentially a scam, not-to-mention a tried and true marketing strategy for these tools. For our discussion around creativity, I’m especially interested in the second piece. This speaks to our recent discussions of meaning-making…

Hi everyone, our apologies for the delay. Here’s our second blogpost as promised. We have put together the flow of our discussion today, together with the readings for class and questions we have. The post Jess made yesterday has the content for our icebreaker conversation as well as policies we highly encourage everyone to read before class. If not, we will still dedicate some reading time during class. Thank you for your time and patience. See you in class soon! Agenda Order Ice Breaker Guinzburg, Amanda. “Diabolus Ex Machina.” Substack newsletter. Everything Is A Wave, 1 Jun. 2025.  The AI model, to no surprise, is incapable of producing an effective…

Hey everyone! Anna and I are excited to speak to you all about AI and Writing! We wanted to spend some time talking about AI policies and writing courses as part of the icebreaker portion of our presentation. We will share another blog post later this evening (or tomorrow morning) with the questions for the assigned readings. We figured it would be best to look at some policies or strategies current writing instructors implement in the classroom. Our goal is to place ourselves in the eyes of both the student and the instructor to see how AI is viewed in the classroom. Anna and I previously worked as writing instructors…

Hi everyone, Estefany and I are looking forward to leading this week’s reading. Below is the agenda and questions we plan to discuss. Question Per Reading

Hey Folks, hope everyone had a great extended time off from our class! Next week we are taking a look at AI and the impacts on education. Natalia and I put together a few questions that we’d like to share in advance for everyone to consider. We are also expecting a guest speaker to join us and would love to hear their thoughts on a lot of these issues. Going through this questions should take no longer than an hour of the class which should leave additional room to discuss other things the guest speaker may want to share. Excited to get everyone’s thoughts in our next upcoming class. Burke,…

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…

Jonathan and I have an opinionated approach on the structure for our class conversation tomorrow, and so wanted to get these thoughts posted before class to give y’all a chance to review! If some ideas or concepts come up in the warm-up exercise that we haven’t explicitly gestured to with our prepared questions, we will do our best to make sign posts to address them under their specific readings. Proposed Outline, pull quotes, and discussion questions: