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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, Surekha Davies, Audrey Watters, and others will be joining us to share their expertise in upcoming events.
If you would like reminders of upcoming events in the series, please send an email with the subject line, "Mailing List" to aicriticalperspectives [at] gmail [dot] com
Supported by the CSUSB Chapter of the California Faculty Association and its Ad Hoc Committee on “AI” in Education
Upcoming Event: Tuesday February 17, Noon PST
Upcoming Event: Tuesday February 17, Noon PST
In Conversation with Dr. Adam Becker (More Everything Forever, Author, Astrophysicist)
In Conversation with Dr. Adam Becker (More Everything Forever, Author, Astrophysicist)
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Hachette, 2025). He also wrote What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (Hachette, 2018), which the New York Times Book Review called, "A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science."
Upcoming Event: Monday February 23, Noon PST
Upcoming Event: Monday February 23, Noon PST
In Conversation with Dr. Surekha Davies (Humans: A Monstrous History)
In Conversation with Dr. Surekha Davies (Humans: A Monstrous History)
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Surekha Davies, author of Humans: A Monstrous History (UC Press, 2025). From the UC Press website: "With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History shows how monster-making is about control: It defines who gets to count as normal." Dr. Davies is a historian of science, art, and ideas. Her first book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human, won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology.
Upcoming Event: Monday March 9, Noon PST
Upcoming Event: Monday March 9, Noon PST
In Conversation with Dr. Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University, UK, emerita)
In Conversation with Dr. Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University, UK, emerita)
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."
Upcoming Event: Monday March 16, Noon PST
Upcoming Event: Monday March 16, Noon PST
In Conversation with Audrey Watters (Teaching Machines)
In Conversation with Audrey Watters (Teaching Machines)
Join us for a conversation with Audrey Watters, author of Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning (MIT Press, 2021). Watters writes on education and technology and her website can be found here. She is a recipient of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship from Columbia University School of Journalism, and her writings can also be found at her blogs: "Hack Education" here, and "Second Breakfast" here.
Upcoming Event: Monday March 23, Noon PST
Upcoming Event: Monday March 23, Noon PST
In Conversation with Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine, AI Now Institute)
In Conversation with Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine, AI Now Institute)
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.
Past Event: Dec. 1, 2025
Past Event: Dec. 1, 2025
Academic Professions & Artificial Intelligence, AAUP Report
Academic Professions & Artificial Intelligence, AAUP Report
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.
Past Event: Dec. 5, 2025
Past Event: Dec. 5, 2025
The CSU/OpenAI Agreement and Faculty Responses, Syllabus Statements, Plagiarism, Project Scaffolding, and More
The CSU/OpenAI Agreement and Faculty Responses, Syllabus Statements, Plagiarism, Project Scaffolding, and More
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.
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