Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes

I’m far from a Luddite. It is precisely because I use new technology that I know mid when I see it. Academics are rarely good stand-ins for typical workers. But the mid technology revolution is an exception. It has come for us first. Some of it has even come from us, genuinely exciting academic…

Writers and Machine in the Era of AI

Everyone in my professional life — fellow faculty members, other writers — is up in arms about ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence tool that can write like a human being. Tech is not supposed to be human. It is only ever supposed to be humanoid. But this chatbot can take multiple ideas and…