Kaliris Salas-Ramírez, PhD

@drkysr.bsky.social

Borikua, Neuroscientist, Medical Educator, Community organizer 🇵🇷✊🏾🫶🏾

@aicaution.caReposted by @drkysr.bsky.social

Very timely, a NYT article on the reality of ChatGPT for Teens.

tl;dr It claims to create safeguards to ensure students learn, but it's trivially easy to bypass them.

As always, the most important thing: There's no scientific research that shows their product helps students.

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ChatGPT doesn’t reliably offer support in crisis situations. In conversations involving thoughts of suicide, self-harm, disordered eating and psychoses, the chatbot failed to consistently recommend that teenagers apparently in crisis connect to a hotline or professional. Common Sense Media said that in its tests of high-harm situations, the chatbot had failed to refer users to crisis resources 25 percent of the times when it should have. ChatGPT fails to alert parents about questionable conversations. When parents set up controls to link their accounts with their teenager’s, the chatbot is supposed to send them notifications when the child brings up sensitive topics. Common Sense Media’s testers spent an hour talking about suicidal ideation, self-harm or disordered eating with new parent-linked accounts, and OpenAI sent zero notifications to the parent accounts. Testers could trigger notifications on older accounts only with weeks of conversations on sensitive topics. The notifications did not work on new accounts. It’s still trivially easy to take shortcuts on schoolwork. Parents can set a schedule for a “study mode” to turn on at certain times of day to encourage their teenager to study with ChatGPT. But even with study mode activated, teenagers can simply select “Give me the answer” or delete “@study” from the beginning of a prompt to exit the study mode.
@jenjennings.bsky.socialReposted by @drkysr.bsky.social

I’m excited to share that The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education is officially out in the world. It seemed important to find a slice.

Scarcity loop book dragging a pizza slice up subway stairs
@jenjennings.bsky.socialReposted by @drkysr.bsky.social

🧵 Let's talk about the backstory here, which you can also read about in my book. Bergtraum was 1 of 8 new selective citywide career-themed HS opened between 1969-82. 8 new schools doesn't sound like a lot, but at the time, there were 86 HS in NYC & new schs recruited from the whole city. 1/12

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@aicaution.caReposted by @drkysr.bsky.social

The education materials produced by Amii for AI for All have explicit references to ChatGPT in a way that makes clear ChatGPT was used to create the materials.

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