maritjmacarthur.bsky.social
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I'd encourage you to consider my redefinition of so-called "prompt engineering" as "prompt writing," which underscores the necessity of rhetorical knowledge for prompting and evaluating so-called "output":https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02403-w
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Collective intelligence" isn't a term for the tools--it's intended to direct humans back to the fact that it is human intelligence and expertise, amassed and mined, that has led to so-called generative AI.
September 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Thank you. It's not technodeterminist to say that students are using AI, which I wish we'd call "Collective Intelligence" (Herndon). PAIRR recenters CRUCIAL human perspective, which can help increase students' skepticism about AI. Discussing AI literacy readings FIRST is a critical piece of PAIRR.
August 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'm a PI for a 3-year PAIRR grant w/8 public colleges & universities, and anti-AI hype. (Piece against commercial AI in education forthcoming.) Yet the digital divide is real. Students must learn to critically assess AI output and re-value humans. My own motivation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Large language models and the problem of rhetorical debt - AI & SOCIETY
This article offers broadly useful guidance for society’s adaptation to the omnipresence of generative AI, with implications for every profession and academic discipline that involves writing or codin...
link.springer.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM