The Log

Trump offers carrots to nine universities

And why Chad Orzel has me worried

Oct 5 •

What comes after the chatbot?

Notes and image credits for my talk at the AAC&U AI Institute

Sep 12 •

To what problem is the modern American university a solution?

AI Log reviews "Dartmouth College V. Woodward: Colleges, Corporations, and the Common Good" by Adam R. Nelson

Aug 10 •

Logpodge #9 When it comes to AI in education, models, teams, and ambitions should be small

Jul 13 •

A Phaedrus Moment

If Socrates was right, what do we make of Claude?

Jul 6 •

After the AI bubble: ChatGPT as an off-modern educational technology

What does generative AI teach us by being weird?

Jun 22 •

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.

May 17 •

Nobody here but us chickens

How "trained incapacity" explains why leaders of NGOs are celebrating Trump's executive order on AI

May 4 •

Boring revolutions and large-elbowed models

Logpodge #7 where I explain why last year's AI may be all you need and ask who benefits when OpenAI and Anthropic pay universities to be their…

Apr 9 •

We need new language for talking about large AI models. Alison Gopnik, Henry Farrell, James Evans, Cosma Shalizi, and Dan Davies provide one.

Apr 6 •

Can the Trump-Musk regime claw back funds already dispersed to universities?

An underappreciated risk to institutions of higher education is that the regime will do to a university what it did to New York City: claw back funds…

Mar 19 •

OpenAI's NextGenAI press release is horse of a different color

Like the press release last month announcing its partnership with California State University, I see NextGenAI as an act of desperation by OpenAI, a…

Mar 9 •

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