English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. “The Racialization of Print” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press.
There are a lot of problems with the tenure and promotion system, but the idea that most academics are simply producing "slop" is not something I have seen in my experience reviewing for promotion and tenure, it seems a more accurate description of a place like the Atlantic
I love this passage from the Pope because he’s borrowing the rhetoric of Shylock’s speech in the merchant of Venice to prove the opposite point, that the robots are NOT human
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas