GenAI is redefining trust rela­tions between students and teachers in a way we didn’t ask for, which is reshaping academic labor. Ulises A. Mejias, "Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor"

New in Academe: "Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor" by Ulises A. Mejias: www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

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Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor AI is reinscribing academic labor in ways that privilege certain economics interests.

Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Academic Labor.
Who benefits when AI is introduced into higher education?
By Ulises A. Mejias (adapted from an earlier op-ed at Future U blog.) www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It Trump is pushing a new artificial intelligence-driven bureaucracy to gut public services and use our data to exploit us.

My new @truthout.org op-ed on Artificial Bureaucratic Intelligence: truthout.org/articles/ai-...

Latam-GPT, el proyecto que busca ser el primer modelo de inteligencia artificial colaborativo de América Latina - BBC News Mundo La iniciativa, que se lanzará a mediados de junio de 2025, busca convertirse en el primer modelo de inteligencia artificial (IA) colaborativo de América Latina y el Caribe, cuya naturaleza promete ser...

BBC Mundo article (in Spanish) about Latam-GPT, a Latin American open GenAI project. I am interviewed in the piece, providing a critical response. IMO, projects like this don't do enough to challenge the extractivist and capitalist premises of GenAI. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl... #DataColonialism

Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too | TechPolicy.Press Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias write that applying the lens of data colonialism can help explain DOGE and how to resist it.

"Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too": a Tech Policy Press op-ed by Nick (@couldrynick.bsky.social‬) and me www.techpolicy.press/data-colonia...

Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education YouTube video by FutureU, Neoliberalism in Higher Education

Here's a panel Zach Kaiser and I did on "GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education", hosted by the amazing folks at Future U youtu.be/TNjZZjExglI?...

NEXT FUTUREU FORUM: Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Future U GenAI and Academic Integrity in Higher Education February 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST Join the presentation live on YouTube No cost. The link above takes you to the Forum. Generative Artificial ...

FYI, I'll be participating on a forum on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Tuesday Feb 18. futureu.education/futureu-foru...

Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy.

'This change in what constitutes “mainstream” speech was necessary to prepare the ground for Trump’s new immigration policies, and it signals a convenient and profitable arrangement between those who control data and those who control borders.'

www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...

My new op-ed. Let's stop pretending GenAI is compatible with the values of the university. futureu.education/higher-ed/co...

this is very exciting to hear! Thanks @melhogan.bsky.social