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> Yeah, I work at a CSU and the Teacher's union is against AI. Is this a political coalition thing or is there a real teacher-related reason they don't like it
by wyager 4mo ago
> Yeah, I work at a CSU and the Teacher's union is against AI.
Is this a political coalition thing or is there a real teacher-related reason they don't like it?
- b40d-48b2-979e 4mo agoCan one really not imagine a case where the cheating machine being used by students is a bad thing for teachers? Does everything have to be "politically motivated"?
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoThere are more aspects than "cheating machine" that could be bad for a college. It could be bad for students, and teachers may realize that.
- wyager 4mo agoYes the a priori most likely reason for the TU to be "against AI" is political. If you know much about TUs this is pretty obvious
- throw4847285 4mo agoThat is a grotesque misuse of the phrase "a priori." What you mean is, "It's obvious to me." Ok, good for you.
- mold_aid 4mo agoAFT is in fact pro-AI
- jwlake 4mo agoIts also a teaching machine. There are several classes I had in college I would have killed for ChatGPT to cut through the terrible instruction.
- ares623 4mo agohmm the classic trolley problem
- pesus 4mo agoThere are tons of reasons AI is actively making the school system worse (amongst many other aspects of society). Immediately jumping to "political coalition thing" seems strange.
- shard972 4mo ago[dead]
- ralph84 4mo agoUnions are always against whatever management wants. Then it becomes a bargaining chip for what the union wants. That's how collective bargaining works.
- ashdksnndck 4mo agoI think unions in industries where their workers are at risk of eventually getting replaced by AI are pretty universally against it, because protecting the jobs of members is the whole purpose of a union. It’s like how the teamsters are against self-driving cars.
- p1necone 4mo agoDismissing opinions you don't like by arbitrarily classifying them as "political" vs "not political" is lazy and dishonest.
- mold_aid 4mo agoWhy wouldn't the political coalition of teachers not be a "real" teacher-related reason? It is not illegal, at this point in time, for teachers to oppose AI for political reasons. As others note, there are a lot of reasons for teachers to refuse or hate AI, though in my experience most don't know shit about it and just want students to stop using it as an expedient. I, for instance, take a look at the tiny Dell cubes that have barely powered our Windows workstations and hilariously bedraggled Prometheus units and anticipate "well, we can't even afford to update these pieces of shit, so I suppose as a 'Microsoft shop' we'll be on a upgrade path to CoPilot-enabled cloud computing or some bullshit like that, then it'll really be all over" so my primary concerns are infrastructural. But god yeah the AI writing I get, jesus. These kids think they're driving around in the AI equivalent of Lambos, but free tier CoPilot is a used 2017 Chevy Cruze.
- wyager 4mo ago> It is not illegal, at this point in time, for teachers to oppose AI for political reasons. No, but that would make it a "political coalition thing", which is why I asked
- vondur 4mo agoI guess I should qualify that, many professors are ambivalent regarding AI, but some view it as an existential threat to their profession. Most here are scrambling to figure out ways to work around it if not incorporate some AI into the curriculum, since every student has access to ChapGPT and many also have access to CoPilot.