Category: Technology
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Ambient Intelligence
One day last week, after an intense and sometimes emotional time sorting through files and papers and deciding what to keep, what to shred, and what to send to my archived papers, I decided to take a while and visit an art installation at the Park Avenue Armory. “Clinamen,” by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. I…
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Active Learning in the Age of AI
It’s Not Just for the Birds Have you ever wondered what those chirpy zebra finches are saying to one another? Now we know. Thanks to the diligent and creative research by Dr. Julie Elie, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies interspecies communication, we humans can understand what other zebra finches have…
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AI Has No Sense of Humor (But some TikTok Comics Do!)
If you are finding yourself increasingly bored with or exasperated by the AI hype and the AI hysteria, you might want to check out social media satirist “Husk” who, on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram posts wickedly amusing satires of AI.* His typical set up is to ask a ChatGPT chatbot some seemingly harmless question that…
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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 years, fired (technically, I wasn’t renewed) from my first job for hosting a women’s day that administrators felt crossed a political line. I subsequently worked various part-time jobs (including at Fermi National Accelerator…
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INTELLIGENT ARTIFICE: Announcing a New Blog Series on Thinking Wisely and Well With, Through, About, Around, and Despite AI
By HASTAC CoFounder and CoDirector, Cathy N. Davidson* Having posted two blogs on HASTAC about AI, I’ve decided to write an (ir)regular series of posts on this topic, entitled “Intelligent Artifice: Thinking Wisely and Well With, Through, About, Around, and Despite AI.” Neither an AI booster nor an AI hater, I think we need to…
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CFP: AI & Culture — SWPACA 2026 Summer Salon Virtual — Deadline April 27, 2026
Area Chair: Andrew Chen, PhD, Minnesota State University Moorhead, andrewsw@gmail.com General Call for Proposals: The AI & Culture area welcomes proposals on all things related to Artificial Intelligence. Topics include, but are not limited to: Important Considerations: Panel Submissions: The Area Chair welcomes thematically linked panel submissions. Please contact the Area Chair to discuss potential panel…
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“Artificial Ignorance” and Data Sycophancy
(Reposted and revised from “‘Artificial Ignorance’ and Data Sycophancy,” Feb 4, 2026) Artificial Ignorance A recent exhaustive study of AI use by computer programmers conducted by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin (“How AI Impacts Skill Formation”) shows that using AI may speed some aspects of your programming but, it, at the same time, “impairs…
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artificial intelligence without understanding becomes artificial ignorance at scale
In my book The Other Side of Empathy I have a section called artificial ignorance. One of my core contentions with our over-reliance on predictive tools to help us think or show us who we are is that our usage of these tools assumes that the past has the answers not just about what we…