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Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust

Damien P. Williams

So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type “AI” is...

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How freaky hair 'won' in the Netherlands and Britain

Jon Danzig

An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold...

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Race in CS1

Austin Cory Bart

Last week, I posted on the SIGCSE-Members listserv asking for guidance on supporting black students in CS1. I have been meaning to ask for that guidance for a while, ever since I analyzed the data from my CS1 class last fall and was disappointed to find that I was not doing enough to support this...

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