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Laura K. Nelson
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Associate Professor @ UBC Computational Sociology Machine Learning is Feminist You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing. www.lauraknelson.com
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How universities should respond to AI: -Integrate computational methods training across soc sci and humanities curriculum (what we've been saying for years) -Fund the development of AI *for research & science* -Offer STS/Hist/Soc courses on computers/automation/AI What universities are doing:

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Ok, but have to disagree w/ "two great sentences." Even as one who has a tendency towards overly-complicated sentence/grammatical structures, these were impossible to decipher before a third reading.

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I agree 100% with your suggestions. But the reason universities don't do this isn't mysterious. It's not bad admin, or even "corporatization of the university." It's that these actions would require *faculty* to reach consensus and coordinate—on a topic where they are very far from consensus.

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Associate Professor @ UBC Computational Sociology Machine Learning is Feminist You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing. www.lauraknelson.com
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