AI
In the modern tech world, the value of a humanistic education shows up in evidence of its absence.
Stephen Marche • The Undergraduate Essay Is About to Die
Needless to say, humanists’ understanding of technology is partial at best. The state of digital humanities is always several categories of obsolescence behind, which is inevitable. (Nobody expects them to teach via Instagram Stories.) But more crucially, the humanities have not fundamentally changed their approach in decades, despite technology... See more
Stephen Marche • The Undergraduate Essay Is About to Die
Why “inevitable”? Why not keep up? What characteristic of the humanities causes it to resist modernization?
The connection between humanism and technology will require people and institutions with a breadth of vision and a commitment to interests that transcend their field. Before that space for collaboration can exist, both sides will have to take the most difficult leaps for highly educated people: Understand that they need the other side, and admit... See more
Stephen Marche • The Undergraduate Essay Is About to Die
As a college student, he told me, he has mostly inhabited a world with ChatGPT. For those in his position, the many moral questions that AI provokes—for example, whether it is exploitative, or anti-intellectual, or ecologically unsound—take a back seat to the simple truth of its utility. Lieber characterized the matter as pragmatic above all else:... See more
Ian Bogost • This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College
the corrupting power of convenience
The technology is no longer just a curiosity or a way to cheat; it is a habit, as ubiquitous on campus as eating processed foods or scrolling social media. In the coming fall semester, this new reality will be undeniable. Higher education has been changed forever in the span of a single undergraduate career.
Ian Bogost • This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College
For Lieber, AI’s allure seems more about the promise of achievement than efficiency. As with most students who are accepted to and graduate from an elite university, he and his classmates have been striving their whole life. As Lieber put it, if a course won’t have “a tangible impact on my ability to get a good job,” then “it’s not worth putting a... See more
Ian Bogost • This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College
misplaced motivation caused by societal incentives and pressures. To succeed or even survive, the bar is so high. When assignments/classes feel arbitrary, a means to an end, an obstacle to overcome or an obligatory box to check, there is every incentive to expedite the process of learning and none to engage with it.
The rollout of AI technology is ushering in a new era of class warfare. Beyond the spectrum of rich and poor, a new divide is emerging: a thinking class vs a scrolling class. Critical thinking skills could soon become a luxury reserved for the rich and powerful and these new technologies are accelerating this new reality. #politics #news #tech #ai
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