Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

New |open access| article on the future of human rights @ Journal of Human Rights 👇+ image Dall-E2 made with the Abstract as prompt. #OpenAccess #ai #china #climate #energy #governance tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI. 2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later. 3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators. 4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc. TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

Did the whaling industry contribute vital experience and capital to the abolitionist movement? Yup, according to my new coauthored study 👇🏻 theconversation.com/abolition-wasn…

Why aren’t there car commercials about old cars that are still running? Why is there no #2007Camry commercial, for example?

The big winner from tonight’s Veep debate is the MidWest. And the Midwestern Man. #Debate2024

The troll-game is strong with the Harris/Walz campaign. Walz walks off DNC to Rockin' the Free World ... the very song Trump used to kick off his 2016 candidacy.

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

“When they go weird, we go Walz” this one drinker said to another at this bar as I ate my pizza.

Love this 👇🏻

New York City before the skyscrapers--an aerial view of Manhattan in 1931.

Such a lovely time at this year's #AspenActionForum with friends old and new @aspenagln instagram.com/p/C951lQ7N32-/…

What the actual BlackMirror!?

Waves against the cliffs of Inis Meain, Ireland.

Is the left winning the meme war?

I’ve never been to a @DairyQueen, but am shocked to see their prices. A meal is $15 and a large “blizzard” is almost $10 (with tax). Is this normal?

Trump’s comment should prompt more reflection on how committed Evangelicals are to democracy. It has served a purpose for the last century or two, but its source is in the reformation, not the old testament.

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Reminder: The cops are not an ideologically neutral peacekeeping force. They are a militarized, occupation force whose job is to protect elite interests and the status quo. They quell dissent using techniques honed on Black and Brown bodies for centuries.

Okay, maybe there is U.S. fascism

Professor pinned on the ground being arrested at @UWMadison, asking police to leave students alone

American universities about to break $100k/yr in cost at the same time as they welcome riot police to tear gas their students. This system is broken, and the left and the right should be able to agree on that.