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dambaras

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Japan/Asia/Global historian. He/him/his. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds and Bad Youth. Co-director, Bodies and Structures: Deep-mapping Modern East Asian History (http://bodiesandstructures.org). Current project: Maritime Connections and Japanese World-Making in the 1950s-1960s. #histodons #Asianists #DigitalHumanities #SpatialHumanities

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avielroshwald, to academicchatter
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Am planning to launch a new Committee On More Acronyms (COMA) to support the proliferation of acronyms on campus.

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dambaras,
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@avielroshwald @academicchatter Institutional Negotiation Director of University Clearance for Educational Directives joins the Committee On More Acronyms

eharlitzkern, to histodons
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You can't hit the breaks when you're going uphill.

After playing around with ChatGPT, I have decided to allow my history students to use AI. Working out ways to stop them from using it will only create more stress and work than it's worth. I have therefore included instructions in the syllabus about how they can and cannot use AI.

And so I set sail on uncharted waters towards the endless horizon, like generations of intrepid explorers before me.

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@tkinias @eharlitzkern @mori @histodons Do you plan to introduce them to some of the critical work on AI, e.g., by Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender, or just give them the tool as another thing that's out there?

dambaras,
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@tkinias @eharlitzkern @mori @histodons I understand your approach, but it strikes me that teaching students about what “AI” claims to be vs what it is, and what ideas inform it, IS part of GE.

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@tkinias @eharlitzkern @mori @histodons I see that. But I don't think it takes all that much time to introduce the issues and encourage students to be aware of them. Consider: would you show displays of the Hottentot Venus, or Native American remains collected and kept under colonialist systems, without explaining the context?

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@tkinias @eharlitzkern @mori @histodons OK, but thinking critically about the tech requires attention not only to its nature/limitations as a bullshit generator, but also to the racist, eugenicist ideologies (the so-called TESCREAL bundle) of the people hyping and profiting from it.

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@tkinias @eharlitzkern @mori @histodons Hope your students get it!

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