ASU faculty raises questions over plans for Atomic<\/p>\n
Several faculty members, including some in leadership positions, are worried about how the platform is using faculty lectures and work.<\/p>\n
In an email obtained by The Republic, an assistant dean urged faculty to reach out with their concerns to the ASU provost\u2019s office, saying, \u201cif we do not flood them with our concerns now \u2014 they will think it is all fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently, this is being aimed at professionals and not for credit or credentialing \u2014 but if you read the site, it is clear that is the ultimate goal,\u201d Kristin Mickelson, assistant dean within ASU\u2019s Graduate College, wrote.<\/p>\n
On Atomic’s website, ASU officials said that while not all feedback will receive a response, they are taken into consideration.<\/p>\n
A leader with ASU\u2019s faculty senate said the group was not involved in the planning or launch of Atomic, and was still learning what it entailed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to working with our administration to understand the project goals, implications, and the role of shared governance in such,\u201d Senate President Elisa Kawam said in an email.<\/p>\n
Michael Kintscher, a member of United Campus Workers Arizona, said he was concerned ASU was falling short in its duty to responsibly serve the community in how ASU Atomic was rolled out. He noted potential inaccuracies in the content and lack of professor compensation from the earnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf our university creates a tool that pulls information out of context and, even if unintentionally, helps with the spreading of misinformation on a large scale,” Kintscher said. “That’s not OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kintscher said AI technology has the potential for good in education, but was concerned that he hadn\u2019t come across any professors or students who knew about the creation of the platform before it was unveiled to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASU faculty raises questions over plans for Atomic Several faculty members, including some in leadership positions, are worried…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,22076,738,1587,407,3068,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-779806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-state-university","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-education","14":"tag-learning","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116533749844658535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}