Tales from the Synthetic City
AI chatbots perform understanding without possessing it. When vulnerable young people mistake that performance for presence, the consequences are real.
Dispatches
Considered notes on teaching, learning, and technology. Slow takes, mostly.
AI chatbots perform understanding without possessing it. When vulnerable young people mistake that performance for presence, the consequences are real.
Learning is being renovated. AI sits in the middle of it, capable and unsettling in equal measure. The conversation about what to do swings between enthusiasm and prohibition, but the load-bearing walls have held through every renovation before this one.