nic-s-h.bsky.social
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Ai can not be held up to us a magic guarantee of success for all pupils, “regardless of background”, on its own. A potentially positive, powerful tool, yes, but only with educators leading the decision making - and never if the realities of education’s omni- crisis aren’t fully recognised.
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Instead of tackling child poverty? Reversing inequalities? Providing adequate SEND provision? Replacing unreliable, discredited inspection? Supporting libraries in every school? Fairly funding schools and colleges? Valuing and paying educators properly? Investing in Education?
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Great letter. The cuts at Cardiff include English, history, philosophy, linguistics, creative writing. Reductions not closures, but sadly familiar. English at Cardiff is the home of the late Catherine Belsey, and of Peck and Coyle (of essay writing fame). It’s the destruction of a subject’s history.
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Or a future where no one either can or wants to read them? That’s getting closer in the US and UK everyday.
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DeepSeek is the flip side of the same coin: It innovated because of, not in spite of, its constraints. And now that it has upended the assumptions of the dominant AI paradigm, we should reject its costly trade-offs and seek new ways to develop AI without so many harms. 24/
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So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/
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Now on top of the negative externalities on people’s power, water, air, and global climate, we have another: the ceding of more & more control over critical energy & water infrastructure to Silicon Valley. I wrote about this last week in @theatlantic.com. 14/
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So it seems like (and I'm slightly overstating it but still) taking the evidence of the digital age, when millions are walking round with a supercomputer in their pocket, to assume that innovation is a fancy thing for privileged people has been a mistake