Leader Schumer's AI roadmap pledges $32 billion to AI R&D, while failing to build guardrails to protect our communities and planet from AI’s harms.

A new report from 50+ groups compiles a mountain of evidence to draw from and shape public policy around: senateshadowreport.com

Given the mention of Panopto being used to surveil faculty, today's a good day to recommend Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Dr. Simone Browne.

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A Luddite praxis should probably include dismantling these obnoxious surveillance machines.

🚨NEW PUB🚨 Why is There a Picture of Me on Snapchat?: Educational Approaches to Overposting: rdcu.be/dIhRi

I wrote this paper with 2 UNT doc students based on a class project where we wanted to think through what constitutes 'overcasting' on social media in education.

No Ethan Mollick. YOU need to decide to remind yrself-every day & as often a possible-that yr experiences teaching at Wharton do not constitute you as an authority on the world's educators and learners.

Your lack of epistemic humility in speaking for 'us' is breathtaking.

Khan is very good at ignoring history in order to tell tales favorable to his products. Like 2 paragraphs on Joseph Weizenbaum & ELIZA followed by suggesting chatbots for therapy & academic coaching without mentioning Weizenbaum found such applications a ‘“monstrous obscenity.’”

My fellow learning sciences folx: I think we must attend to how Big Tech is warping our field and push back asap.

So I wrote a piece after Google's I/O announcement of new language model-based conversational tutors for education ... three years ago fastcompany.com/90641049/googl…

What's changed? [slow thread]

I'm slogging my through the introduction. Khan is already referring to Sam and Greg (that is OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman) and says the quiet part out loud with this admission:

Taking one for the team, as they say.

In Jasmine Roberts-Crews's piece, she demonstrates the unacknowledged centrality of Black feminist pedagogy to the development of what we now know as open education practices. As she argues, centering this Black feminist praxis opens new pathways to a more socially just open education.

This panel was today and, yet again, I'm so damn grateful to be learning alongside such wonderful, brilliant students.

Nope.

“Nanni AI is kind of like Shazam for baby cries.”

NEW: One year after EPIC’s “Generating Harms” report on #GenerativeAI impacts, we look at GAI’s damaging effects on elections, privacy, data degradation, and content licensing, as well as what remedies and enforcement are being offered. 🧵

READ AT: epic.org/GAI2

Time to revisit Meredith Whittaker's 'The Steep Cost of Capture' and her observation that, 'These companies control the tooling, development environments, languages, and software that define the AI research process—they make the water in which AI research swims.' ainowinstitute.org/publication/th…

AI is *not* magic!

Another data point to grapple with alongside students and educators in the ongoing conversation about generative AI's role - if any! - in teaching and learning.

And you can find more at the Against AI and Its Environmental Harms Library at pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI_a…

Emotion AI in schools ... most people agree that computers can't 'detect' emotions, so why are AI products now being sold to monitor attention, concentration, distraction etc? I talk to Nathalie DiBerardino about the problems with this form of EdTech: buzzsprout.com/1301377/150635…

Sal Khan's new book on how AI will revolutionize education comes out tomorrow - Sam Altman blurbed the book - and today he was featured in OpenAI's GPT-4o roll out so yeah see below

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