everyone seems intent on pretending that the most significant revolution in the world ofthought in the past century isn’t happening.

Let me offer a dispatch from the impact zone

It’s not that they’re dishonest; it’s that they’re paralyzed

Use ChatGPT or similar tools, and you’ll bereported to the academic deans. Nobody wants to risk it. Another student mentioned that a major A.I.site may even be blocked on the university network, though she was too nervous to test the rumor

Princeton

my subject is the rise of atechno-scientific understanding of the world, and of ourselves in it.

, targeting it with deep cuts to federal grant funding

even a cure for cancer.

’m a historian of science and technology

You’re resume is inundated with visual rhetoric. Did you know that most employers don’t spend more than 30 seconds on a resume? They need to be persuaded first by how it looks

conclusion about these three things and interpret some kind of meaning

That it isn’t built on the backs of human input

extracting resources and culture without consent or compensation, and justifying it all in the name ofprogress.

same logic that drove colonialexpansion across the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The Dutch in Indonesia. The French in WestAfrica. The Belgians in the Congo. The British everywhere else

unregulated AI development

Companies behaving like empires,treating the digital world as unclaimed territory, free to plunder. No permission, no license, no payment.Just the assumption that anything online is theirs for the taking

powered by innovation and cleverness

If you feed a machine’s learning system bad or biased data— or if you’ve got a monolithic team building the software — it’s bound to churn out skewedresults.

“Spicy autocorrect,”

elements of their AI systems areunknowable — like the inner workings of the human mind, only more novel, more dense

Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, Chowdhury’s team waseliminated.

he’s more concerned about his hypothetical than thepresent reality

I believe that thepossibility that digital intelligence will become much smarter than humans and will replace usas the apex intelligence is a more serious threat to humanity than bias and discrimination,even though bias and discrimination are happening now and need to be confrontedurgently

Of course, nobody wants thesethings to take over. But the impact on real people, the exacerbation of racism and sexism?That is an existential concern

colleagues he knows well and trustshad conflicting views on the matter.

search engin

which can include publicly available web data

training the semantic webtechnology they were working on

Google suddenly worrying about ethics? Its subsidiaryYouTube was the slowest of the major platforms to take action against extremist content. “Iwas suspicious.

It was close to midnight that night

“ignoredtoo much relevant research.”

identities of who reviewed and critiqued her paper revealed

banned in the European Union because it was deemed discriminatory and invasive

Biased data canhave widespread effects that touch the lives of real people

taught itself

criminal sentencing and policing

reporting that darker-skinned females are the most likely to be misclassified,with error rates up to 34.7 percent. The error rate for white men: 0.8 percent

“The mask worked,”

with often didn’t pick upon her dark-skinned face.

as little as $1.32an hour to do so

will wipe out the jobs of some marginalized communities

Content moderators in Kenya have reported experiencing severe trauma, anxiety,and depression from watching videos of child sexual abuse, murders, rapes, and suicide

How would that risk have changed if we’d listened to Gebru? What if we had heard thevoices of the women like her who’ve been waving the flag about AI and machine learning

public consciousness

men

As AI has exploded into the public consciousness, the men who created them have criedcrisis

Google has a differentaccount of what happened

suppressing words

The results were troubling

that writing well is the hardest subject to learn

Linguistics attributes this to the concept of “bursts” in writing.

They’ll never haveto write essays in the adult workforce, so why bother putting effort into them

Leehopes people will use Cluely to continue AI’s siege on education.

While Cluely can’t yet deliver real-time answers through people’s glasses

“We built Cluely so you never have to think aloneagain,” the company’s manifesto reads.

a Stanford dropout

it might rely on something that isfactually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has hadon Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction

How can we expectthem to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years ofcognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-payingjob, maybe some social status, but nothing more?”

The students kind of recognize that the system is broken and that there’s not really apoint in doing this.

Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power ofChatGPT

whenever they encounter a little bit ofdifficulty, instead of fighting their way through that and growing from it, they retreat to something thatmakes it a lot easier for them.

I then fed a chunk oftext from the Book of Genesis into ZeroGPT and it came back as 93.33 percent AI-generated

studies have shown they trigger more false positives for essays written by neurodivergentstudents and students who speak English as a second language

meaning these are people whonot only didn’t write the paper but also didn’t read their own paper before submitting it.

“As an AI, I have been programmed ...”

counterpoints tend to be presented just asrigorously as the paper’s central thesis

learning is what “makes us truly human.”

But she’d rather get good grades

“College is just how well I canuse ChatGPT at this point,”

Professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled withclunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a college student —or even a human.

Lee thought it absurd that Columbia, which had a partnership with ChatGPT’s parent company,OpenAI, would punish him for innovating with AI.

“It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.

They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.

best be wielded by people who have a knowledge of that heritage

coding computers might be more closely related to learning a foreign language

And they can manipulate narrative to get the AI to think in the way they want

the more powerful these systems become.

There are glyphs that other AIs cannot see. Still other AIs seem to have invented their own languages by which you can invoke them.

science fiction

doesn’t make them useful to novices.