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Cut the 'AI' bullshit
Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis, get rid of poverty, and unleash the full potential of human creativity?
We don’t need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not personally reading the articles their peers have written and students are not expected to gain insight through wrestling with complex concepts: a world in which creative and knowledge work is delegated to a mindless algorithm. Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes ‘the practice of freedom’, the means by which [people] deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.« By insisting that the future is predetermined and that the best we can do is accept whatever next product is pitched to us by the company with the highest market cap, the university is betraying its responsibility to enable its students to perceive themselves as subjects capable of affecting the world and thinking of it critically.
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