Yes, exactly this: "The net result [of an AI-driven education] will not only be a massive privatisation and centralisation by the backdoor, but the future dependency of teaching and learning on infrastructures that harm the planet."

"AI should no longer be treated as a pure STEM discipline but rather a transdisciplinary one that requires technical knowledge, yes, but also insights from the social sciences and humanities. There should be mandatory courses on #AIethics and governance." spectrum.ieee.org/ai-missteps-un…

All they have is a hammer

My money is on it being Trump, somehow

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Science, the process by which rigorous, replicable, reproducible and verifiable knowledge is supposed to be produced is handed over to opaque, capitalist, and unreliable plagiarism machines that stand opposite to the fundamental tenets of science and this is progress how…

There's an easier line of criticism here imo: irrespective of whether we can meaningfully define a "Science" existing in ideal apolitical form separate from context, EDUCATION is political. A whole host of politics and value judgements go into deciding what to teach and how.

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"other" philosophers. Bud you aren't even at the level of an undergrad.

Struggling universities should be able to make money by leasing out their highly paid, super-efficient senior management teams as consultants to other companies

make no mistake, the constant push by governments, NGOs, the AI community & general public to focus on “opportunities”/“positive narratives” comes at the cost of uncritically endorsing hype & diminished focus on rigorous testing & supporting claims with empirical evidence

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Nick Clegg getting in bed with a greater evil, convinced he's doing the right thing? Who would have ever predicted.

OpenAI have almost certainly said this about every version of ChatGPT. They were, and remain, woefully out of their depths.

I wanted to comment on how little this government understands AI but WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS PICTURE. I had to check this was a real tweet, because my god he looks like he's starting a podcast a doxxing immigrants.