It feels incredibly naive when people in academia talk about delegating certain pedagogical tasks to “ai” so they can spend more time with students doing “what matters.” 1) it all matters 2)it’s not going to play out that way

i really liked the @sayash.bsky.social/@randomwalker.bsky.social that ai is particularly appealing to broken institutions; they give the example of ai for hiring, the hr manager goes "we don't actually really care how we get from 1000 résumés to 10 so just ai it"

I like Leon Furze's pushback piece on this. leonfurze.com/2024/03/21/a...

Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Workload: Can AI Actually Save Educators Time?

Across Australia and internationally, Departments of Education, School Associations, and individual schools and teachers are asking the same question of generative AI: can it solve the teacher work…

And I really want them to explain what they mean by "what matters." I'm consistently (not) surprised that they can't.

I never thought the robots would eat my job, says member of the Robots Eating Jobs party.

Nuts!!!

how dare you imply the planet-burning, multi-billion-dollar black box is not a MAGIC box that contains MY DESIRES SPECIFICALLY

This brought to you because I’ve read yet another piece making this claim by someone who should know better.

One hell of a way to prove your own irrelevance. Not to mention the fact that there’s nothing worth doing that AI can actually do better than a human being.

This week I heard, from a stage, in praise of AI "One teacher said 'It's given me my weekends back', all because of the GenAI" People, in less than 6 months, that teacher will be back working weekends and using GenAI, because tools don't fix culture, people fix culture. #RefuseAI

they mean something gross don't they