Anastasia Berg
@a_n_a_berg
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy @UCIrvine; editor @the_point_mag; What Are Children For? with @rachelcwiseman
California
Joined November 2016
Today in @TheCut, an excerpt of my conclusion to What Are Children For? On the pitfalls of treating motherhood as a transformative identity.
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Much has been said about @jennfrey’s achievements at UTulsa—the program she’s built, record fundraising, an enrolment boom—but when we visited Tulsa I was stunned to find a Dean who treated the intellectual and ethical growth of every individual student as her highest priority.
Now for some personal news: today is my last day as Dean. I was stunned to be informed by our new provost there will no longer be a Dean of Honors, period. Nor an Assistant Dean. Rather, I was told there will be a “director” of honors--but that person will not be me. (12/21).
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RT @TheAnnaGat: Fierce and fantastic debate just now on @interintellect_ between the great @anecdotal and @a_n_a_berg - both professors wit….
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Live now on @interintellect_ !.
Our founder @TheAnnaGat along with fabulous @anecdotal and wonderful @a_n_a_berg bring the second @interintellect_ Debate on whether AI will raise academic standards or undermine them, and what changes, if any, are needed in teaching, assessment, and campus policy today
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Join us tomorrow, when I will argue that no purported benefit of AI in universities is worth the cost: rendering students subcognitive.
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RT @cardusca: "For liberals and progressives—and it’s not foreign to the way religious and conservative people are thinking either—the time….
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RT @BradWilcoxIFS: Thinkers like @darbysaxbe @a_n_a_berg @ebruenig from the left are leading out here. More needed. Anyways, this NYT sugge….
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Thank you @BrianDijkema for a brilliant opportunity to get to the philosophical and ethical core of our work!.
I had the pleasure of speaking with @a_n_a_berg & @rachelcwiseman about their book, “What Are Children For?” It really is a fascinating conversation regardless of where you stand on questions of natalism, faith, or philosophy. Highly recommended! ⬇️👶.
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RT @BrianDijkema: I had the pleasure of speaking with @a_n_a_berg & @rachelcwiseman about their book, “What Are Children For?” It really is….
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RT @commentmag: “We notice that our ethical, civic, and philosophical education addresses various things, but it doesn’t address the questi….
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RT @PodcastBrowser: Podcast with Anastasia Berg about her book What Are Children For?. Discusses the shifting motivations & anxieties influ….
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RT @NewHumanist: Are we experiencing a crisis of meaning and purpose in the west? . In the first edition of our new Voices section, we aske….
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RT @interintellect_: Authors @a_n_a_berg and @rachelcwiseman joined Tara Isabella Burton for a salon on the complexities of parenthood, pur….
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RT @interintellect_: AI in education sparks debate: @anecdotal sees it as a powerful aid; @a_n_a_berg warns it risks critical thinking and….
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RT @UnsiloedPodcast: Catch @a_n_a_berg of @UCIrvine in this episode with Greg as they explore why fewer people are choosing to have childre….
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RT @TheAnnaGat: Second Great @interintellect_ Debate!. Does AI have a place in academia?. With @anecdotal (for) and @a_n_a_berg (against).….
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*OUR students 🙈 but at least you can rest assured I wrote this myself!.
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The homepage for Open AI/GPT mentions four possible uses: TWO of those are "write an academic essay." The next page features just one: "a 1000 word essay.". AI depriving out students of the opportunity to read, think and write is not an unintended consequence, it's the product.
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RT @freganmitts: This is an important point. Many who advocate AI use as a way of increasing educational equity are, unfortunately, going t….
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To @freganmitts's brilliant and, unfortunately, all too rare warning against the illiteracy AI will usher in, I'd only add: it will not be distributed equally. Academics already sheepishly mutually assure one another how sparing their *own* children will pay off dividends. .
As promised! Here I discuss what I see as the ultimate threat AI poses to the humanities, and what university AI response committees can actually do about it.
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RT @interintellect_: Author @rachelcwiseman joined @a_n_a_berg and Tara Isabella Burton for a salon on the complexities of parenthood, purp….
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