Really thoughtful take on what AI policies in educational institutions are getting wrong

📝 AI in the workplace vs. AI in education ✍️ Paired Ends (Stephen Turner's blog)

This is more or less where I'm coming down on this whole thing—"Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well."

“Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.”

I hear Seditious Intent, Dr.

Yesterday I told my wife who’s in therapy services in the hospital here that if you say “AI” now you’re an enemy of the state, and now we say “SI” to which she responds “yeah that’s Suicidal Ideation”

At risk of over anthropomorphizing these things, when asking Claude how it thinks and responds to other people engaging Claude on superstitions and religious topics, its responses felt like genuine metacognition. Interesting emergent phenomenon.

I’m an atheist now, but as a child I was raised in an extremist religious cult (don’t ask, won’t tell). I found it interesting to ask Chat/Claude/Grok how they respond when people ask about their faith, mythical stories and creatures, and their personal relationship with a supernatural being.

OTOH, I'm no longer putting preliminary/unfinished results on a poster at a conference, when it's possible that anyone with a smartphone and a Claude subscription can take a photo and prompt "finish what they started". Maybe not possible with everything now, but extrapolate a bit and reconsider.

I run ubo on Firefox on desktop but I’m still using Safari on my iPhone. What’s your content blocking set up there?

Modern websites are so much worse than they were in 1998

Wild how this was just 10 months ago.

Couldn’t have done it without my colleagues Tom Hartvigsen Chirag Agarwal Phil Potter at UVA, and my former coworkers at Signature Science. Let’s get to work 🧬