The AI Discussion

“For many good reasons, there are lots of tensions around GenAI and a sometimes-growing antagonism between those who are critical and rejecting AI and those who are engaging with AI (regardless of whether they do so critically or uncritically). I think there should be meaningful conversations amongst these groups (and all the variations among and beyond them). But, at times, the dismissiveness of one by the other leads me to wonder how thoughtful we are being about the discourse as a whole. In particular, there’s some degree of talking past each other that feels like a cornerstone of the very critique we hold of GenAI and the world at large that we’re just reproducing in this space. We’re robotically (if I may) reacting (not responding) to one another’s comments with rejoinders that re-entrench our own perspective without doing the work of learning and thinking that we rally to when we talk about what our students should be doing.”

Lance Eaton, AI + Education = Simplified (Substack) [open.substack.com/pub/aiedu…