Annie K. Lamar
@aklamar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Computational Classics at UC Santa Barbara
OpenAI and the tech community at large must decide whether to treat archaeology as a branding opportunity or a serious discipline deserving of ethical and scientific engagement.
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Data Sovereignty vs. Digital Prospecting - Public Seminar
OpenAI’s “AI to Z Challenge” invited users to hunt for archaeological sites in the Amazon using AI models—but critics say the contest blurred ethics, ignored Indigenous rights, and turned cultural her...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
OpenAI and the tech community at large must decide whether to treat archaeology as a branding opportunity or a serious discipline deserving of ethical and scientific engagement.
publicseminar.org/2025/10/ai-i...
publicseminar.org/2025/10/ai-i...
Higher education must not retreat from language instruction under the illusion that “the machines can do it.”
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Opinion: Apple’s translating AirPods won’t work without state’s language grads
Higher education must not retreat from language instruction under the illusion that “the machines can do it.”
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October 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Higher education must not retreat from language instruction under the illusion that “the machines can do it.”
www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/11/o...
www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/11/o...
Institutions are rolling out detection software, cracking down on AI use in syllabi, and encouraging faculty to read student work like forensic linguists. But the reality is that we cannot reliably detect AI writing. www.newsweek.com/higher-eds-a...
Higher Ed's AI Panic Is Missing the Point | Opinion
We cannot force students to write "original" prose without any external help. But we can teach them to be responsible authors who understand the tools they use and the ideas they put into the world.
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June 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Institutions are rolling out detection software, cracking down on AI use in syllabi, and encouraging faculty to read student work like forensic linguists. But the reality is that we cannot reliably detect AI writing. www.newsweek.com/higher-eds-a...