Erna Dinata

St. Monica, pray for all mothers and for us! ♥️
# Feast of St Monica of Hippo Algeria

Abundant blessings on the feast of St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine! Thinking of my mother who has Monica for her baptized name and all amazing mothers who pray unceasingly for their children and families ♥️🙏🏽

Screencap from linked article, reading: “I want to mention that this is a government document so factual accuracy is the top priority,” an Everett staffer told ChatGPT, while asking for help conducting an analysis of racial disparities in the housing section of Everett’s comprehensive plan.

Some excellent reporting from PBS & KNKX on how city governments in WA are using ChatGPT. It is getting urgent for people to understand how synthetic text extruding machines actually work, so we stop seeing things like this:

www.knkx.org/government/2...

It’s the beginning of the semester! Time flies. I have 75 master’s students this semester in 3 classes. Good discussion @ Fall Student Conference on critical topics: AI & education, disability justice, student research, supervision, professionalism & self-care ♥️🙏🏽

# Go Yotes
# Muenster Univ Center

What’s Really at Stake if Fewer People Study the Humanities Why the University of Chicago’s decision to pause admissions to some doctoral programs hurts so much

The University of Chicago recently announced pauses on admissions to some of its humanities doctoral programs. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it's “a particular gut-punch to the humanities, not just at the university itself, but nationally and even globally.”

Operational opacity. AI systems are ‘black boxes’, often unexplainable either for technical or proprietary reasons, uninterpretable to either school staff or students, and hard to challenge or contest when they go wrong.

Contextlessness. AI promoted to schools is routinely considered as if context will not affect uptake or use. Social, political and institutional contexts will affect how AI is used in schools. Policy contexts will shape AI’s use in education systems, reflecting particular political priorities.

Unproven benefits. AI in education is characterized by lots of edtech industry sales pitches, but little independent evidence. Schools remain unprotected against marketing rhetoric from edtech and big tech companies, who promise significant benefits for schools without supplying proof.

Falling for the hype. Promotion of AI for schools is supported by hype to attract policy interest and capture the attention of teachers and leaders, positioning AI as a technical solution for complex educational problems. It also serves the purpose of attracting investors’ attention.

The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?

If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education.

21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Human Literacy Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...

We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process Since the beginning of this age of “generative AI,” members of fields and disciplines ranging across commerce, food service, medicine, and education have sought to find at least one use case fit to th...

Especially when it comes to education and academia, LLM and GPT-type "AI" is not inevitable, it is not necessary, and it does not need to be made *this way*. More from me at Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences:
online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

How I Learned to Stop Teaching and Love AI Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to si...

"You do not need to read books. Just feed the PDFs to ChatGPT and let it spit out a summary that you can read in class if needed, or a brief analysis or response to a post to an online discussion where your bot will talk to your classmates’ bots. Stop wasting your time reading."
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been trying to warn y'all over here

www.popsci.com/technology/a...

"generative AI adoption is growing super fast!" says company that forcibly injects generative AI into all their products with no way to opt out

Printout of the chatgpt transcript of Adam Raine, a California teenager who died from suicide on April 11.

Adam's parents, Matt and Maria, printed out his ChatGPT transcript from September when he started using it, until April 11 when he died. They organized it chronologically by month. That huge stack is March, and the one next to it is the first 11 days of April.

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

"AI catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst," Laura Reiley writes, about her daughter. “I fear that in unleashing AI companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Opinion | The Only Real Solution to the A.I. College Cheating Crisis Since A.I. has made the mental effort of writing and problem solving optional, universities need new ways to require the work needed for learning.

In Opinion

In the 1,000 days since ChatGPT’s release, it has disrupted the university approach to learning, meant to stop students from relying on A.I. “We, of course, do not want our students to fail, but we don’t want them to fail to learn, either,” Clay Shirkey, a vice provost at NYU, writes.

Life expectancy gains are decelerating in 23 high-income countries
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon After decades of decline, the number of people dying from hunger is increasing as starvation spreads from Sudan to Gaza

Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon on.ft.com/3JuVjxK

LLMs can easily simulate the social-media behavior of "normies" if by that is meant what a statistically average or essentially predictable post might look like; what is fading from social media is inscrutable intentionality, the gratuitousness that characterizes freedom

Great thread 🙏🏽

By abandoning the technology of longform reading and writing, we are shortening our context windows and thus weakening our capacity for attention.

the "content" of reading and writing become the processes themselves: they become deliberate exercises to expand attention spans in the face of technologies designed to shorten them
kevinmunger.substack.com/p/attention-...

This Sunday! RSVP to join this free event on-site at the High Museum in Atlanta!
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𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲: 𝗔 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴.

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 - 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙊𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗿ö𝗺, 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮𝘀-𝗠ü𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗔𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗸𝘀𝗶 𝗦𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶
Aalto University School of Business, Finland

doi.org/10.1177/0170...

Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding

Heartbreaking story. United in prayers for people who are affected by flooding around the globe. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

# action and contemplation

1/3rd of US teens (>8 million kids) have prediabetes
gis.cdc.gov/grasp/diabet...

Obesity in young adults linked with accelerated epigenetic ("biological") aging jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

AI Will Never Be Your Kid’s ‘Friend’ Chatbots may seem fun, but they rob children of important lessons in how to be human.

Kids need messy, authentic human friendships to hone their social intelligence. If they opt instead for AI “companions,” Russell Shaw writes, they risk losing opportunities to grow.