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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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Maximizing Productivity: The Key Advantages of Electronic Legal Billing Software
Streamline your law firm’s billing with legal e-billing software. Automate invoicing, manage cases, and boost efficiency with powerful features. If the legal officials are only using your law firm’s billing software for basic tasks and running campaigns, you are missing out on the bigger opportunities it offers. The best legal billing software with CRM capabilities…
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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 it will be useful for any and every reader who wants to move past hype and hysteria to really understand what tools we need to hold various AI systems accountable for what AI…
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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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Comics and Machines Conference 2026 – Uppsala/Stockholm – Call for Submissions
Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) & Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) Call for Papers and TalksRoyal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden 22-23 April, 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2025 Comics and Machines Steering Committee: Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle…
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“AI & Culture” area Call for Papers (area of SWPACA 2026 in ABQ) – October 31, 2025 Abstract Due Date
The AI & Culture area welcomes proposals on all things related to Artificial Intelligence. (This area is part of the (https://swpaca.org/) SWPACA 2026 Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM – https://swpaca.org/albuquerque-conference/ .) Topics include, but are not limited to: Important Considerations: Submission instructions can be found at https://swpaca.org/app Deadline: October 31, 2025
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CBR: The Dangerous Art of Text Mining Chapter 2: From Fantasy to Engagement: Channeling the Potential of ‘Hybrid’ Teams.
Jo Guldi. The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Chapter Reviewed: Chapter 2: From Fantasy to Engagement: Channeling the Potential of ‘Hybrid’ Teams. Review by: Elizabeth Varkey. Introduction The second chapter of Jo Guldi’s work titled “From Fantasy to Engagement” begins by returning to the Chinese…