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Title: Alex Reid – professor of digital rhetoric, media, and artificial intelligence

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The kairotic, exigent argument for AI is that we need to act at scale. The problems are too large, urgent, and networked. Climate, infrastructure, data governance, global health, automation: all are increasingly framed as demanding planetary computational systems, fast decisions, and coordinated action.


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I had an uncanny experience with ChatGPT this morning. I will briefly relate. I was playing around with the idea of it replicating a project like Dave Egers 365 Days of Clones as I knew this would push on its “copyright concerns.” I put that in scare quotes as these policies are really more about negotiated power relations among media corpo...


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These guidelines are not intended for specific implementation but rather to articulate principles for writing instruction in an academic environment where generative AI systems are widely available, unevenly understood, and increasingly normalized. They suggest pedagogical considerations for responding to AI without reducing writing to a set of tran...


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The idiomatic phrase “in the loop” belongs to the information economy long before it belongs to artificial intelligence. It emerges alongside mid-twentieth-century efforts to integrate human bodies and minds into systems of command, control, and communication—fighter pilots wired into cockpits, operators embedded in feed...


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My writing colleagues will have special feelings for “basic writing” (i.e. a course for students not ready for first-year composition). The course is thus defined as remedial. To the extent that no one is really sure how to write in a college course in a world that includes generative AI, arguably all our writing courses are remedial. Here ...


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