- AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’
Answering the questions of why and when to use AI requires us to be architects of learning. It demands that we engage with thinking about learning and what it means to produce knowledge through the works of people like Dewey, Noddings, Zagzebski and others as urgently as we do with the latest tech blogs.h/t D’Arcy Norman
- (PDF) Moving off the Map: How Knowledge of Organizational Operations Empowers and Alienates
This paper examines how employees become simultaneously empowered and alienated by detailed, holistic knowledge of the actual operations of their organization, drawing on an inductive analysis of the experiences of employees working on organizational change teams. As employees build and scrutinize process maps of their organization, they develop a new comprehension of the structure and operation of their organization. What they had perceived as purposively designed, relatively stable, and largely external is revealed to be continuously produced through social interaction. I trace how this altered comprehension of the organization’s functioning and logic changes employees’ orientation to and place within the organization. Their central roles are revealed as less efficacious than imagined and, in fact, as reproducing the organization’s inefficiencies. Alienated from their central operational roles, they voluntarily move to peripheral change roles from which they feel empowered to pursue organization-wide change. - On “ChatGPT Psychosis” and LLM Sycophancy
So, how about instead the warning goes something like this: “WARNING: Large language models are not statistical tables, they are artificial neural programs with complex emergent behaviors. These include simulations of emotion. ChatGPT can be prompted to elicit literary themes such as AI “glitches” and “corruptions”, simulated mystical content, etc. These are not real and the program is not malfunctioning. If your instance of ChatGPT is behaving strangely you can erase your chat memory by going to settings to get a fresh context.” For bonus points include concrete examples/screenshots of what fake AI “glitches” and “simulated mystical content” look like so that users know this stuff is in the model and not to be taken literally.