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Intelligent Artifice
Thinking Wisely and Well With, Through, About, Around, and Despite AI.
8 posts in this series
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Active Learning in the Age of AI
It's Not Just For the Birds What are those chirpy zebra finches saying to one another? Now we know. Thanks to the diligent and creative research by Dr. Julie Elie, a neuroscientist at the…
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Democracy in 3-D Glasses
In the stunning mural by Polish multidisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, "Make Tofu Not War" (2018), exhibited currently at the Prada Foundation in…
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AI Is Not Neutral
Pictured, Stanford Computer Scientist Yejin Choi who advocates "Small Language Models."
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AI Has No Sense of Humor (But some Social Media Comics Do!)
If you are finding yourself increasingly bored with or exasperated by the AI hype and the AI hysteria, you might want to…
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AI Ate My Homework: Big and Small Solutions for Educators Now
I began my teaching career in what was the worst academic job market until the present moment. I was unemployed for three…
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Auditing AI: A Great Book That Holds AI Accountable—And Shows How We Can Too
The Marquand House Collective, Auditing AI. MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, 2026. Auditing AI is the book I’ve been searching for–and I believe…
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“Intelligent Artifice”: Announcing a New Blog Series
Having posted two blogs on HASTAC about AI, I’ve decided to write an (ir)regular series of posts on this topic, entitled “Intelligent…
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“Artificial Ignorance” and Data Sycophancy
Artificial Ignorance A recent exhaustive study of AI use by computer programmers conducted by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin (“How AI…
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