DiP - Digital Pedagogy and Learning in Higher Education
Time: March 12, 2025 from 14:00-15:15 CET
Place: Online on Zoom
Fee: Free
Target group: All interested
Language: English
Deadline for registration: March 10 2025. 00.00
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Description:
The sudden and meteoric rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) has raised fundamental concerns for universities. Using Bacchi’s methodology on ‘problematisation’, we analyse which concerns Danish universities have addressed through their policies and guidelines. We identify three key problematisations: assessment integrity, legality of data and veracity. While each of these problematisations involves specific limitations, together they also strongly emphasise symbolic and epistemological issues and consequently mostly ignore the materiality of genAI, for example, in terms of labour and energy use. Drawing on critical AI studies, this article argues that universities should also consider the huge planetary costs that (gen)AI poses as well as the full range of AI’s exploitative business models and practices. Universities should integrate these considerations into both their decision-making on (not) using certain technologies and their policies and guidelines for research and teaching, just as sustainability is already a criterion in their travel or investment policies today.
Speakers:
Olivier Driessens, University of Copenhagen
Olivier Driessens is Associate Professor at the Center for Tracking and Society in the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen.
Magda Pischetola, University of Copenhagen
Magda Pischetola is Assistant Professor at the Section for Education in the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen.
Read more: https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/143595