A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:
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A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:
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yianiris
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •.. the system of education is the education of the system ..
the system now needs Ai ... who are you to confront it?
Some kind of anarchist or anti-establishment warrior?
Educators don't affect the system, the system creates educators to support itself. It is one big Ai experiment since late 19th century
Educators not serving the system are criminal and enemies of the common good!
Welcome to 2025, ICE is here, they'll draft you and jail your niece
Education UberAlles
@emilymbender
Olivier Berger
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •I don't know why you're so negative on this. Most people in the workplace drink alcohol. Some do it at lunchtime and during the working day, others just in evenings. It's an inevitable part of the world of work. If you're not day drinking, you're going to be left behind.
The job of schooling is to prepare people for this world, so you really should serve beer in the classroom. Now, I know you're going to say that excess alcohol consumption is linked to cognitive decline, but that's just the cost you have to accept for staying on top of the latest workforce trends. People straight out of school are going to be starting at companies where day drinking is just an accepted part of productive work and if they haven't already built a high alcohol tolerance then they're going to be left behind.
Face it, day drinking is inevitable.
Oh, sorry, you were talking about GenAI? I was thinking of something else.
Leonardo Uieda
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Rowan Brad Quni
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Rowan Brad Quni (@QNFO@mstdn.science)
mstdn.sciencefabrizio
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fabrizio
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • •Qybat
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •AI is brain rot combined with the worst aspects of manipulative advertising, funded disinformation by the rich, fossil fuel funded fascist propaganda, malware, state surveillance platforms, and spyware.
The source of investment alone should be ringing alarm bells. The most repressive billionaires on the planet are funding AI.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
arstechnica.com/information-te…
fortune.com/2025/07/10/elon-mu…
unilad.com/news/us-news/peter-…
Billionaire Peter Thiel gives ‘sociopathic’ response about humanities future
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Merrily
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •President Karis spearheads AI-driven transformation in Estonia's high schools
ERR (Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR)Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Merrily • • •Merrily
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •And it's not like this will be some home-grown LLMs developed by Estonians for Estonians. The president specifically compared this "leap" to Estonia's digital transformation, which was a comparatively sovereign, in-house development, founded on open standards and at least partially open source.
This AI "project" amounts to "let's pay Altman a ton of money and export our student's data and conversations to the US"
news.err.ee/1609723875/estonia…
Estonia to introduce AI-model in high schools this fall
Iida-Mai Einmaa (Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR)Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Merrily • • •Jon Sterling
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Jon Sterling • • •Wulfy
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Petitions are worse than not doing anything as they give you an illusion of action.
Politicians largely ignore petitions.
#RegulateAI
Ray Corrigan
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •AI for Educators
canvas.sydney.edu.auProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
in reply to Ray Corrigan • • •@raycorrigan this isn't a ban but a commitment not to use or promote.
Also I can't tell if you know that that's my book you're talking about.
Ray Corrigan
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Helen Beetham (imperfect offerings)*appears on your feed lesbianly*
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •