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Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia
Helen Choi of the University of Southern California argues that generative AI products are diverting readers from Wikipedia and misappropriating volunteers' work, threatening the community that sustains it. She contends academics, as researchers and teachers, have an ethical duty to defend open knowledge communities, and that universities should recognise and resource contributions to Wikipedia.
5 min · 1,129 words
There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
Iris Meredith of deadSimpleTech examines the common claim that AI is inevitable, asks what that would actually mean for a technology, and argues that by the boosters' own implicit standards of cost, adoption and durability, large language models fall well short of being inevitable.
16 min · 3,794 words