Lamis Abdelaaty
Assoc Prof of PoliSci • IR, Refugees • labdelaa.expressions.syr.edu • she/her • Views own, etc.
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatyDear Colleagues, Having spent billions on questionably necessary construction projects over the past decade because of vibes or something, the time has come for hard choices. Yrs etc., College President
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatyOh good, you footnoted your way toward a disavowal of ethics. Rock on.
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatyGuys before I refuse an invitation I am always sure to ask for details about the wildness of the event and hammer out specifics of my travel to that event and that’s when I hit em with I AM NOT COMING WEIRDO but always using a different communications method than for the previous conversations
- Reposted by Lamis Abdelaaty"Yes, it’s expanding the surveillance state, & yes, it’s destroying the education system, & yes, it’s being trained on copyrighted work w/o permission, & yes, it’s being used to create lethal autonomous weapons systems that can identify, target, and kill without human input, but… I forget my point."
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatyThe college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatyHow? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
- Reposted by Lamis Abdelaatyimagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
- Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatySettings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.
- Reposted by Lamis AbdelaatyCalling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
