Pandora's Bot

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Katie Conrad
Feb 19, 2023
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This is Pandora's Bot, a place where I consider technology and how we relate to it, in higher ed and beyond.

A note on the accompanying image: I first prompted NightCafe with “a silver robot creating a book.” It returned four images—all female, and all anthropomorphic. I do believe that anthropomorphizing AI is both inevitable and deeply problematic. I also think it’s an apt image because much generative AI is built—generally without consent—on human creations, many of which themselves anthropomorphize AI.

I initially chose to use generative AI ironically, but in solidarity with our fellow human creative artists, my teen artist daughter made me a new one. The new image’s robot has a visor to suggest “reading” without “seeing” (her idea).

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