Matt Chalmers
@mjchalmers.bsky.social
Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | nota bene: guy to ask about Samaritans
Oh, that's great to hear! Very happy to hear it being assigned
May 24, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Oh, that's great to hear! Very happy to hear it being assigned
Reposted by Matt Chalmers
As we’re fighting for pay increases that even come close to the rate of inflation, our class sizes increase & assigned time for service work is clawed back. Our buying power is eroding, and it impacts conditions for student learning.
January 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM
As we’re fighting for pay increases that even come close to the rate of inflation, our class sizes increase & assigned time for service work is clawed back. Our buying power is eroding, and it impacts conditions for student learning.
Reposted by Matt Chalmers
But because budgets are allocated by number of students, fewer instructors would mean fewer students thus justifying more cuts thus meaning fewer instructors this meaning fewer students thus justifying more cuts thus meaning fewer instructors this meaning fewer students thus justifying more cuts /4
January 16, 2024 at 1:18 PM
But because budgets are allocated by number of students, fewer instructors would mean fewer students thus justifying more cuts thus meaning fewer instructors this meaning fewer students thus justifying more cuts thus meaning fewer instructors this meaning fewer students thus justifying more cuts /4
tldr if your campus isn't talking about whether AI is ethical, and isn't talking about environment or labour, let's take anything they say about it with a hefty grain of salt
January 8, 2024 at 7:27 PM
tldr if your campus isn't talking about whether AI is ethical, and isn't talking about environment or labour, let's take anything they say about it with a hefty grain of salt
And we haven't even talked about the alignment of AI as currently developed with corporate authoritarianism, and some nasty political and social programs academic.oup.com/policy-press... +
Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Abstract. This book is a call to resist AI. The operations of deep learning cause collateral damage in ways that can’t be fixed, and its take-up by institutions
academic.oup.com
January 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM
And we haven't even talked about the alignment of AI as currently developed with corporate authoritarianism, and some nasty political and social programs academic.oup.com/policy-press... +
People have been trying to talk about this, including conceptualizing it as a sort of neo-colonialism. But a lot of the need for ethical attention is getting lost in the noise of shiny new tools and EdTech sensing profit www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1... +
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order
An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.
www.technologyreview.com
January 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM
People have been trying to talk about this, including conceptualizing it as a sort of neo-colonialism. But a lot of the need for ethical attention is getting lost in the noise of shiny new tools and EdTech sensing profit www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1... +
Finnish company Metroc, as reported in November 2023, turned to prison labour for their LLM training - a sort of labour not known for its positive workplace environment theconversation.com/long-hours-a... +
Long hours and low wages: the human labour powering AI's development
Tech firms are relying on low-wage workers to power their AI models. That raises serious ethical questions about how the technology is being developed.
theconversation.com
January 8, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Finnish company Metroc, as reported in November 2023, turned to prison labour for their LLM training - a sort of labour not known for its positive workplace environment theconversation.com/long-hours-a... +
Reliance on underpaid and precarious human work was highlighted in this TIME investigation of OpenAI, ChatGPT's creators, and their use of outsourced Kenyan workers to label data time.com/6247678/open... +
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/…
January 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Reliance on underpaid and precarious human work was highlighted in this TIME investigation of OpenAI, ChatGPT's creators, and their use of outsourced Kenyan workers to label data time.com/6247678/open... +
But it's not just environment - it's what AI does to people. Training AI has gone hand in hand with some devastating labour exploitation, often of historically exploited people www.noemamag.com/the-exploite...
NOEMA | Noema Magazine
Noema is a magazine exploring the transformations sweeping our world. We publish essays, reporting, interviews, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economi...
www.noemamag.com
January 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
But it's not just environment - it's what AI does to people. Training AI has gone hand in hand with some devastating labour exploitation, often of historically exploited people www.noemamag.com/the-exploite...
More recently, last year, it was clear that the environmental impact of AI remained a huge problem, both in terms of carbon footprint and water consumption www.theguardian.com/technology/2... +
TechScape: Turns out there’s another problem with AI – its environmental toll
AI uses huge amounts of electricity and water to work, and the problem is only going to get worse – what can be done? Plus, the wider TechScape
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 7:22 PM
More recently, last year, it was clear that the environmental impact of AI remained a huge problem, both in terms of carbon footprint and water consumption www.theguardian.com/technology/2... +
Back in 2020, people were already talking about AI training as resource-hungry. Corporate interests in the tech, especially as a replacement for specialist workers, already contributed to an exponentially expanding carbon footprint nature.com/articles/s42... +
https://nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9…
January 8, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Back in 2020, people were already talking about AI training as resource-hungry. Corporate interests in the tech, especially as a replacement for specialist workers, already contributed to an exponentially expanding carbon footprint nature.com/articles/s42... +