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AI in Higher Education: Enhancing, Not Replacing, Human Decision Making

Liaison International

While some fear that AI might replace human judgment, the reality is that AI serves as a powerful tool to enhance human expertise. In graduate admissions, for example, AI tools can assist in evaluating candidates by analyzing large datasets to identify patterns and insights that may not be immediately apparent to human evaluators.

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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification

Dan Cohen

After reading this article, I hereby declare that we replace the Turing Test with the Vigoda Verification , in which the quality of an AI system is a measure of its ability to identify Abe Vigoda in a large corpus of images: By using separate fields, the team can compare the AI-powered metadata against the metadata provided manually.

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Why we need applied humanities approaches (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The humanities might not-too-facetiously be labeled the black sheep of academia. After all, the humanities are frequently characterized as being in crisis and, since 2008, have suffered massive hemorrhaging in the numbers of new majors. To put it simply, an applied humanities approach is needed in STEM education.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

This article explores AI’s historical evolution, critically assesses its benefits and challenges for teaching, and provides evidence-based strategies for faculty to integrate AI effectively. The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). 2023; Topol, 2019).

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Generative AI: a technology that “makes previously exclusive interactions available to all”?

HEPI

Earlier in May 2024, HEPI, with support from learning technology service Studiosity, hosted a roundtable dinner to discuss how important the human touch is in the age of AI learning. But will there still be a place for a human touch? Nor are fears of the potential drawbacks of such technologies new. This raised questions.

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Humane Ingenuity 36: 15% Faster

Dan Cohen

In a wonderful new article , film and television scholar Jason Mittell provides an extremely creative, occasionally bizarre, frequently hilarious, and ultimately rather helpful “inventory of deformative practices” to uncover hidden layers of meaning in media. The use of advanced technology, in short, can open up broad interpretive avenues.

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Censoring the technologies of free expression

FIRE

Unsurprisingly, this powerful technology is raising fears about everything from political misinformation to defamatory images to political deepfakes. . That article contains no mention of the First Amendment, or even of freedom of speech interests more broadly, so we’d like to offer that perspective.