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Darwin and AI
The old fear that civilization makes life too easy, that human beings are going to devolve and deteriorate, has reared its head of late. AI is going to diminish our brains. AI will cause “cognitive surrender,” the NYTimes headline cries. I...
Aristotle and AI
There are many approaches to “AI readiness” in higher ed. Mine, a 2000-level English course, begins with the second L in large language models, language. Accordingly, and with an eye to state legislators scrutinizing syllabi for racy texts,...
“After the University” (Review)
My rule is that you get to write one book on higher education and if nothing changes, or things get worse, you had your chance. To write two books on higher ed is to admit your first book didn’t improve things. My rule assumes that the poin...
Just one more thing....
Chain of thought (CoT) reasoning is in the headlines with all the reports on the Hugging Face “incident,” where a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents went on a rampage and appeared to have left an evidence trail of their exploits and swarming beha...
Teaching the Ocean to Swim
In fields outside of literary studies (my field), the so-called “Big Five” personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism—seem, to many smart people, to be useful and explanatory. I have never found...
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Scholar of AI language and meaning, writing on how AI is changing the world. PhD Princeton; MPP Harvard. Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. All opinions here are solely my own.
Undergraduate of Pedagogy 2025-2028. Long-time learner of Jungian Analytical Psychology. Writer. Astrologer. Single. Mexican. 49. In Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Norma-Sancho-ebook/dp/B0H1NMVDMJ/
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