Meaghan Girard
@meaghangirard.bsky.social
Qual researcher on the social impacts of emerging technologies 📳, aspirational rabble rouser 🪇, and lover of beautiful words and ridiculous birds 🐓
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer:
"We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth."
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
"We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth."
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
AI Open Letter — AECJ
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October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer:
"We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth."
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
"We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth."
www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...
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New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
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One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
February 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/
August 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Tour d’horizon, en format BD, d’une stratification du réseau scolaire québécois à la source d’inégalités sociales.
L’école à trois vitesses décortiquée en 12 cases illustrées
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August 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tour d’horizon, en format BD, d’une stratification du réseau scolaire québécois à la source d’inégalités sociales.
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Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
Our #CaseMethod study, "Baseline: #TechBros tackle #diversity among co-op members," is available on Ivey Publishing!
Help students build capacity to navigate taboo topics as they find tangible, science-driven solutions for an AI firm. #HigherEd #strategy #DEI
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Help students build capacity to navigate taboo topics as they find tangible, science-driven solutions for an AI firm. #HigherEd #strategy #DEI
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Ivey Publishing - Ivey Business School
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June 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Our #CaseMethod study, "Baseline: #TechBros tackle #diversity among co-op members," is available on Ivey Publishing!
Help students build capacity to navigate taboo topics as they find tangible, science-driven solutions for an AI firm. #HigherEd #strategy #DEI
www.iveypublishing.ca/s/product/ba...
Help students build capacity to navigate taboo topics as they find tangible, science-driven solutions for an AI firm. #HigherEd #strategy #DEI
www.iveypublishing.ca/s/product/ba...
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When I said 10 years ago that we didn’t need to fear intelligent AI nearly as much as we need to fear dumb AI used by people who think it’s smart, I was really hoping to be wrong but now none of us can retire because AI is bad at math
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.
www.theverge.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
When I said 10 years ago that we didn’t need to fear intelligent AI nearly as much as we need to fear dumb AI used by people who think it’s smart, I was really hoping to be wrong but now none of us can retire because AI is bad at math
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OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Performativity scholar: The cup is the apparatus that enacts the drinking water
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Performativity scholar: The cup is the apparatus that enacts the drinking water
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
AI auditor: let's not reach a conclusion before we can assess and independently verify how much is in the cup
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
AI auditor: let's not reach a conclusion before we can assess and independently verify how much is in the cup
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
November 24, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Performativity scholar: The cup is the apparatus that enacts the drinking water
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Performativity scholar: The cup is the apparatus that enacts the drinking water
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