Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
Butts by Heather Radke
The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself by Robin Reames
Predator: South China Sea by Jeff VanderMeer
"Whatever AI might be in some imagined utopian future, AI companies in our present moment extract and exploit...This is simply what they do, intrinsically, necessarily — in a perverse sense of the phrase, on principle."
https://blog.ayjay.org/ai-week/
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
Consent by Jill Ciment
Relationship-Rich Education by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
The Power of Moments by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
American Flannel by Steven Kurutz
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee
Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
Building on an assignment suggested by Mark C. Marino, I aim to embolden and empower students by asking them to identify AI’s limitations, recognize the labor involved (i.e., “training” on both AI input and output), and reflect on the value of their own approaches and methods for writing. Such goals contrast with benefits listed in the first MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper, benefits which appear to relieve students of responsible participation in the writing process and remove opportunities for centering their own voices, experiences, and abilities. Part of resisting AI hype necessarily involves reaffirming our humanity, and reading texts like Futureproof by Kevin Roose and Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini that contextualize and historicize AI development also keep our collective head out of the cloud. Of course, I'd be glad to share early results of students' responses to these assignments.
Xenos by Dan Abnett
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini
Revolutionary Mathematics by Justin Joque
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Breaking Things at Work by Gavin Mueller
The Robotic Imaginary by Jennifer Rhee
The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann
Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik deBoer
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog
Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
Writing for Busy Readers by Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dayswork by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel
Spaceships Over Glasgow by Stuart Braithwaite
Hollow by B. Catling
The Guest by Emma Cline
Exit Interview by Kristi Coulter
Ultra-Processed People by Chris Tulleken
Harold by Steven Wright
Saving Time by Jenny Odell
The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe