This month is our official “AI episode.” We are joined by Ben Riley, who wrote a guide for considering the use of AI for education. Our discussion considers the tasks for which AI might be useful, and the multiple concerns we have for its use as a substitute for thinking.
Later, we read a study that shows AI can help people produce incrementally more creative task solutions. However, we are unconvinced that is ever the purpose of the educational process.
- First Segment – 02:21 – Hazards of AI in Education
- Second Segment – 32:33 – Creativity Improvements with ChatGPT
Featured Guest
Primary Citations
- Riley, B., & Bruno, P. (2024). The Educational Hazards of Generative AI. Cognitive Resonance. https://www.cognitiveresonance.net
- Lee, B.C., Chung, J.(2024). An empirical investigation of the impact of ChatGPT on creativity. Nat Hum Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01953-1
Supplemental Citations
- Deans for Impact
- AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences (Bloomberg)
- What is Intelligence? (Santa Fe Insitute – Alison Gopnik stone soup reference)
- Predicting Results of Social Science Experiments Using Large Language Models (Hewitt, 2024)
- Researchers in Portugal develop an image analysis AI platform to boost worldwide research (Phys.org)
- Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing (Steiss, 2024)
- From traces to measures: Large language models as a tool for psychological measurement from text (Simons, 2024)
- ChatGPT is bullshit (Townsen Hicks, 2024)
- Toward a Luddite Pedagogy (Hybrid Pedagogy, 2014)
- Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI (Costello, 2024)
- AI detectors falsely accuse students of cheating.
- Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable (Zhou, 2024)
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- What works may hurt: Side effects in education (Zhao, 2017)
- Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (Dell’Acqua, 2023)
- 061 Errorful Generation & Local Poems (Two Pint PLC)
- 092 Teaching Statistics & Fostering Creativity (Two Pint PLC)
- Generative AI Can Harm Learning (Bastani, 2024)
Featured Beverage
We drink Ink (Dark Stuff), a smoothie sour from Tox Brewing Co. in New London, CT.