When you ask generative AI to explain a concept, or anything else for that matter, the system makes a series of consequential decisions on your behalf.
I've benefited from reading and thinking about your various posts, Jeppe. As a member of an AI Task Force for my institution, I must sift through many low quality, high attention-seeking Substacks for useful ideas pertaining to AI pedagogy. It's refreshing when I get a notification for one of your new posts and I find myself returning to them again and again.
This is incredibly kind of you, and especially meaningful coming from someone working actively with institutional AI policy. Knowing this work is useful to people actually shaping institutional responses makes all the difference. Thank you.
Exactly. McLuhan saw this with television -- the medium restructured attention itself. With AI, we're watching it happen in real-time to academic reading. The 400-word default isn't neutral infrastructure; it's actively shaping what students think 'understanding' feels like.
I've benefited from reading and thinking about your various posts, Jeppe. As a member of an AI Task Force for my institution, I must sift through many low quality, high attention-seeking Substacks for useful ideas pertaining to AI pedagogy. It's refreshing when I get a notification for one of your new posts and I find myself returning to them again and again.
This is incredibly kind of you, and especially meaningful coming from someone working actively with institutional AI policy. Knowing this work is useful to people actually shaping institutional responses makes all the difference. Thank you.
The medium is the message...
Exactly. McLuhan saw this with television -- the medium restructured attention itself. With AI, we're watching it happen in real-time to academic reading. The 400-word default isn't neutral infrastructure; it's actively shaping what students think 'understanding' feels like.
Brilliant observation -- thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this text.
Forget trying to read in a foreign language. That might drive a reader over the edge.