Join us for a series of free and public events. We explore the educational landscape amidst the uncritical adoption of “AI” tools, and the implications for faculty, students, college campuses, and beyond. After our first two December events the series will continue in the spring 2026 term, including leading voices in a number of relevant fields from linguistics, computer science, history, journalism, and more. We are excited that Britt Paris, Brian Merchant, Lucy Suchman, Adam Becker, Martha Kenney, Martha Lincoln, and many others will be joining us to share their expertise in upcoming events.
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Supported by the CSUSB Chapter of the California Faculty Association and its Ad Hoc Committee on “AI” in Education
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Lucy Suchman, professor emerita of Lancaster University (Sociology). Dr. Suchman's work includes Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Action (Second Edition, Cambridge, 2012), and she is a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC). Her recent work explores the "limits of datafication and the zones of ignorance that reliance on data creates about everything that can’t be computed."
Join us for a conversation with Brian Merchant, author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone (2017, Little, Brown) and Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023, Little, Brown). He is also a founder of VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform, (find an anthology of these writings here), as well as being reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. Find his most recent work in his newsletter, Blood in the Machine.
A briefing on the AAUP report, an update on latest developments, and a discussion of what future action might look like, particularly at the CSU. Find the Report Here (link). Thanks to Drs. Britt Paris, Martha Kenney, Martha Lincoln, and Lucy Suchman for lending their expertise.
Faculty Perspectives on the recent CSU-OpenAI agreement, and best practices in the college classroom amidst uncritical AI adoption. Please join us and share concerns, suggestions, and learn from colleagues.