Erna Dinata
@ernadinata.bsky.social
Department of Social Work
University of South Dakota
Fides et Ratio
Crescat scientia vita excolatur
Views are my own
University of South Dakota
Fides et Ratio
Crescat scientia vita excolatur
Views are my own
St. Monica, pray for all mothers and for us! ♥️
# Feast of St Monica of Hippo Algeria
# Feast of St Monica of Hippo Algeria
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
St. Monica, pray for all mothers and for us! ♥️
# Feast of St Monica of Hippo Algeria
# Feast of St Monica of Hippo Algeria
Abundant blessings on the feast of St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine! Thinking of my mother who has Monica for her baptized name and all amazing mothers who pray unceasingly for their children and families ♥️🙏🏽
August 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Abundant blessings on the feast of St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine! Thinking of my mother who has Monica for her baptized name and all amazing mothers who pray unceasingly for their children and families ♥️🙏🏽
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Some excellent reporting from PBS & KNKX on how city governments in WA are using ChatGPT. It is getting urgent for people to understand how synthetic text extruding machines actually work, so we stop seeing things like this:
www.knkx.org/government/2...
www.knkx.org/government/2...
August 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Some excellent reporting from PBS & KNKX on how city governments in WA are using ChatGPT. It is getting urgent for people to understand how synthetic text extruding machines actually work, so we stop seeing things like this:
www.knkx.org/government/2...
www.knkx.org/government/2...
It’s the beginning of the semester! Time flies. I have 75 master’s students this semester in 3 classes. Good discussion @ Fall Student Conference on critical topics: AI & education, disability justice, student research, supervision, professionalism & self-care ♥️🙏🏽
# Go Yotes
# Muenster Univ Center
# Go Yotes
# Muenster Univ Center
August 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It’s the beginning of the semester! Time flies. I have 75 master’s students this semester in 3 classes. Good discussion @ Fall Student Conference on critical topics: AI & education, disability justice, student research, supervision, professionalism & self-care ♥️🙏🏽
# Go Yotes
# Muenster Univ Center
# Go Yotes
# Muenster Univ Center
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The University of Chicago recently announced pauses on admissions to some of its humanities doctoral programs. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it's “a particular gut-punch to the humanities, not just at the university itself, but nationally and even globally.”
What’s Really at Stake if Fewer People Study the Humanities
Why the University of Chicago’s decision to pause admissions to some doctoral programs hurts so much
bit.ly
August 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The University of Chicago recently announced pauses on admissions to some of its humanities doctoral programs. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it's “a particular gut-punch to the humanities, not just at the university itself, but nationally and even globally.”
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Operational opacity. AI systems are ‘black boxes’, often unexplainable either for technical or proprietary reasons, uninterpretable to either school staff or students, and hard to challenge or contest when they go wrong.
August 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Operational opacity. AI systems are ‘black boxes’, often unexplainable either for technical or proprietary reasons, uninterpretable to either school staff or students, and hard to challenge or contest when they go wrong.
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Contextlessness. AI promoted to schools is routinely considered as if context will not affect uptake or use. Social, political and institutional contexts will affect how AI is used in schools. Policy contexts will shape AI’s use in education systems, reflecting particular political priorities.
August 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Contextlessness. AI promoted to schools is routinely considered as if context will not affect uptake or use. Social, political and institutional contexts will affect how AI is used in schools. Policy contexts will shape AI’s use in education systems, reflecting particular political priorities.
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Unproven benefits. AI in education is characterized by lots of edtech industry sales pitches, but little independent evidence. Schools remain unprotected against marketing rhetoric from edtech and big tech companies, who promise significant benefits for schools without supplying proof.
August 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Unproven benefits. AI in education is characterized by lots of edtech industry sales pitches, but little independent evidence. Schools remain unprotected against marketing rhetoric from edtech and big tech companies, who promise significant benefits for schools without supplying proof.
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Falling for the hype. Promotion of AI for schools is supported by hype to attract policy interest and capture the attention of teachers and leaders, positioning AI as a technical solution for complex educational problems. It also serves the purpose of attracting investors’ attention.
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Falling for the hype. Promotion of AI for schools is supported by hype to attract policy interest and capture the attention of teachers and leaders, positioning AI as a technical solution for complex educational problems. It also serves the purpose of attracting investors’ attention.
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If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education.
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?
www.theatlantic.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education.
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
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Especially when it comes to education and academia, LLM and GPT-type "AI" is not inevitable, it is not necessary, and it does not need to be made *this way*. More from me at Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences:
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process
Since the beginning of this age of “generative AI,” members of fields and disciplines ranging across commerce, food service, medicine, and education have sought to find at least one use case fit to th...
online.ucpress.edu
November 27, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Especially when it comes to education and academia, LLM and GPT-type "AI" is not inevitable, it is not necessary, and it does not need to be made *this way*. More from me at Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences:
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...
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"You do not need to read books. Just feed the PDFs to ChatGPT and let it spit out a summary that you can read in class if needed, or a brief analysis or response to a post to an online discussion where your bot will talk to your classmates’ bots. Stop wasting your time reading."
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How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI
Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to si...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"You do not need to read books. Just feed the PDFs to ChatGPT and let it spit out a summary that you can read in class if needed, or a brief analysis or response to a post to an online discussion where your bot will talk to your classmates’ bots. Stop wasting your time reading."
buff.ly/uiFQ7I0
buff.ly/uiFQ7I0
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August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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"generative AI adoption is growing super fast!" says company that forcibly injects generative AI into all their products with no way to opt out
August 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
"generative AI adoption is growing super fast!" says company that forcibly injects generative AI into all their products with no way to opt out
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Adam's parents, Matt and Maria, printed out his ChatGPT transcript from September when he started using it, until April 11 when he died. They organized it chronologically by month. That huge stack is March, and the one next to it is the first 11 days of April.
August 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Adam's parents, Matt and Maria, printed out his ChatGPT transcript from September when he started using it, until April 11 when he died. They organized it chronologically by month. That huge stack is March, and the one next to it is the first 11 days of April.
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Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.
Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.
Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
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"AI catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst," Laura Reiley writes, about her daughter. “I fear that in unleashing AI companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"AI catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst," Laura Reiley writes, about her daughter. “I fear that in unleashing AI companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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In Opinion
In the 1,000 days since ChatGPT’s release, it has disrupted the university approach to learning, meant to stop students from relying on A.I. “We, of course, do not want our students to fail, but we don’t want them to fail to learn, either,” Clay Shirkey, a vice provost at NYU, writes.
In the 1,000 days since ChatGPT’s release, it has disrupted the university approach to learning, meant to stop students from relying on A.I. “We, of course, do not want our students to fail, but we don’t want them to fail to learn, either,” Clay Shirkey, a vice provost at NYU, writes.
Opinion | The Only Real Solution to the A.I. College Cheating Crisis
Since A.I. has made the mental effort of writing and problem solving optional, universities need new ways to require the work needed for learning.
nyti.ms
August 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In Opinion
In the 1,000 days since ChatGPT’s release, it has disrupted the university approach to learning, meant to stop students from relying on A.I. “We, of course, do not want our students to fail, but we don’t want them to fail to learn, either,” Clay Shirkey, a vice provost at NYU, writes.
In the 1,000 days since ChatGPT’s release, it has disrupted the university approach to learning, meant to stop students from relying on A.I. “We, of course, do not want our students to fail, but we don’t want them to fail to learn, either,” Clay Shirkey, a vice provost at NYU, writes.
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Life expectancy gains are decelerating in 23 high-income countries
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Life expectancy gains are decelerating in 23 high-income countries
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon on.ft.com/3JuVjxK
Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon
After decades of decline, the number of people dying from hunger is increasing as starvation spreads from Sudan to Gaza
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August 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon on.ft.com/3JuVjxK
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LLMs can easily simulate the social-media behavior of "normies" if by that is meant what a statistically average or essentially predictable post might look like; what is fading from social media is inscrutable intentionality, the gratuitousness that characterizes freedom
July 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
LLMs can easily simulate the social-media behavior of "normies" if by that is meant what a statistically average or essentially predictable post might look like; what is fading from social media is inscrutable intentionality, the gratuitousness that characterizes freedom
Great thread 🙏🏽
perhaps tech companies no longer coerce people to post publicly because overall surveillance has improved www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
July 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Great thread 🙏🏽
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the "content" of reading and writing become the processes themselves: they become deliberate exercises to expand attention spans in the face of technologies designed to shorten them
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/attention-...
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/attention-...
July 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
the "content" of reading and writing become the processes themselves: they become deliberate exercises to expand attention spans in the face of technologies designed to shorten them
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/attention-...
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/attention-...
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This Sunday! RSVP to join this free event on-site at the High Museum in Atlanta!
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July 13: We’re collaborating with the High Museum of Art & @aiainetwork.bsky.social for a discussion about the evolving relationship between data, design, & human perception. Register for free Second Sunday museum access to join this on-site Atlanta event! high.org/event/ups-se...
UPS Second Sunday
On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, performances, and the High’s collection and special e...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This Sunday! RSVP to join this free event on-site at the High Museum in Atlanta!
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