Reply To: ChatGPT et al
For 12 November 2024, Jenny prepared a department-based INSET titled, Responsible Use of AI.
The session was guided through a video (YouTube link 17m45s) to facilitate discussion, and departments fed back using the accompanying handout (PDF download).
The accompanying PowerPoint contains all of the links referred to in the video (PPT download).
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Also, I have just shared the following with our Sixth Form students following their Interrobang!? presentations, which, this year, took AI as their starting point …
Carl T. Bergstrom, Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, and Jevin D. West, Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, offer a 3-credit, graded course titled, Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World. They have also published a book titled, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.
Shahan Ali Memon is a PhD student and a teaching assistant in their Calling Bullshit course.
Of Shahan, Carl says: “He’s a great follow if you care about our information ecosystem. I am blown away by the level of introspection that Shahan exhibits with respect to lecturing in our course. I wish I’d been so thoughtful 30 year ago.”
Shahan recently had the opportunity to give a guest lecture on “automating bullshit” as part of the course.
The slides for his lecture – Automating Bullshit – can be viewed/ downloaded here, and is deeply thoughtful about AI.
In referencing Safiya Umoja Noble‘s book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, he quotes Abeba Birhane and Vinay Uday Prabhu (2021), authors of the paper, Large image datasets: A pyrrhic win for computer vision?:
“Feeding AI systems on the world’s beauty, ugliness, and cruelty, but expecting it to reflect only the beauty is a fantasy.”
And as Dallas Willard says, crooked thinking, however well-intentioned, always favours evil.
