IMCI Lunch Series: Move Fast and Break Things? Evaluating the Rhetoric of Generative AI in Academic Communities

Presented by: Tyler Easterbrook

Monday, March 17 12:30pm – 1:30pm
IRIC 352
Zoom: https://uidaho.zoom.us/j/89252554608
Meeting ID: 892 5255 4608
Passcode: 1234

Abstract: Popular discourse around generative AI (GenAI) often holds that the technology is revolutionary and will supercharge our productivity in life and work. In this presentation, I will offer some reasons for skepticism about GenAI’s alleged speed and revolutionary potential. Drawing from research in writing studies, I will encourage attendees to reflect on how their academic communities have developed conventions around GenAI usage in their scholarly work. My hope is that attendees will leave the talk with a more nuanced appraisal of how GenAI tools should change our research and writing practices—or not.

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