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June 2025

May 2025

Seriously, Let's Stop Treating LLMs like People
At least in the classroom and the workplace
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Rob Nelson
Teaching with AI Redux
I was speaking at a conference this week in Kansas City and got a question about where higher ed faculty might start to get up to speed on AI.
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Rob Nelson
Notes and image credits for "A Phaedrus Moment"
My talk from Perusall Exchange 2025 about Plato's Phaedrus. What do we make of the striking similarity between Socrates’s concern about preserving the…
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Rob Nelson
On Beyond AGI: A reading list of sorts
Read / Watch / Listen to fourteen writers on the social uses of large AI models. Gopnik / Farrell / Narayanan & Kapoor / Mitchell / Shalizi / Evans …
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Nobody here but us chickens
How "trained incapacity" explains why leaders of NGOs are celebrating Trump's executive order on AI
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Rob Nelson

April 2025

There is a mushroom in my computer
Complex adaptive systems and social intelligence are ideas that help explain what large AI models do. That does not make their outputs safe to consume.
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Rob Nelson
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Notes for "Balancing Innovation and Integrity in Academic Operations"
In the spirit of Richard Scarry's masterpiece "What Do People Do All Day," here is a presentation I am giving today as part of my new job: talking to…
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Rob Nelson
Old ways of thinking about new problems
Management cybernetics is a old set of ideas. Stafford Beer and thinking about large AI models as a social and cultural technology together give us a…
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Rob Nelson
A brief guide to 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠
What and why I write
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