Blog | Dr. Kathryn Conrad

May 318 min read

Friction v. “Magic”: The lure of AI "time-saving" tools for teachers

First published on Pandora's Bot (Substack), MAY 28, 2024 As generative AI tools continue to be pushed into education—most recently, with...

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Feb 211 min read

DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight

Click here for my co-written blog with Gary Marcus! Published 9 January 2024. Bing/DALL-E 3-created image of a superhero family

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Feb 219 min read

A Tale of Two Tonys: Those guardrails still aren't gr-r-reat

JAN 15, 2024 --First published on Pandora's Bot Substack Today I bring you another small chapter in the ongoing saga of generative AI’s...

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Jul 20, 20231 min read

A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education

Image courtesy of Critical AI, Duke University Press I thank my readers for their patience as I worked on the following piece for the...

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Jun 5, 20232 min read

Pandora's Bot: technology and culture

Pandora's Bot logo: blue background, stylized black GPU with stylized white ghosts emerging This is Pandora's Bot, a place where I...

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Jun 5, 20236 min read

Data, Text, Image: How we describe creative work matters

MAY 4, 2023 --originally posted at Pandora's Bot Substack (NB: I had hoped to post at least monthly, but as anyone writing and thinking...

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Jun 5, 20236 min read

AI and Commun(icat)ion: When is it inappropriate to use LLM-generated writing?

MAR 14, 2023 --originally posted at Pandora's Bot Substack In one of the more controversial early cases of ChatGPT/LLM use in academia,...

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Jun 5, 20239 min read

Won't Get Fooled Again? On the virtue of humility in the face of technological advances

FEB 20, 2023 --originally posted on Pandora's Bot Substack AI “alignment” is the attempt to make artificial intelligence do what its...

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