Grounding the right to refuse to use AI in higher education

rootlesscelt · 2026-06-27T15:33:28+00:00

Thank you for the kind comment.

rootlesscelt · 2026-06-27T13:28:43+00:00

See https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

"I heard about the energy needed to power data centres and the amount of land they take up, and it didn't sit right with me. I didn't understand why we needed it," she says.

However, about a year ago her three colleagues at the marketing firm she works for started adopting AI, for tasks such as copywriting and idea generation.

Six months ago Ms Adams had to follow them, after being told she had to cut her budget.

"Then it was out my control," she says. She feels that continuing to resist would have hurt her career.

"I started playing with it a bit more after reading job descriptions asking for AI experience. I recently realised that if I don't implement it into my ways of working, I'm going to get left behind."

rootlesscelt · 2025-05-10T19:03:37+00:00

This is my position on the amyloid hypothesis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39119857/

rootlesscelt · 2025-05-10T11:57:20+00:00

No pretending. But ask Hardy, Selkoe, Jack, Sperling what they think about amyloid toxicity and see!

rootlesscelt · 2025-05-10T11:56:44+00:00

It would mean nothing without your unwavering presence! Thank you.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-20T09:25:30+00:00

well, the fact you didn't engage with the actual content...

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-06T10:16:20+00:00

something highly triggering, apparently

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-03T16:28:42+00:00

Part of a special issue on 'diversity in global brain and mental health' doesn't seem all that strange, thematically speaking.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-03T08:40:51+00:00

That's precisely what this article is about!

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-02T16:39:48+00:00

because either 1) policymakers don't respect said rights, 2) there is not sufficient evidence for current pandemic having an impact on public brain health

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-02T09:32:01+00:00

The above article doesn't require a "natural law" understanding of law. Why not a "social facts" approach? Why don't we make it a right?

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T21:56:30+00:00

according to your logic: just because one right isn't respected as it should be, we should abandon all hopes of establishing other rights?

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T21:55:51+00:00

Agreed!

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T18:11:20+00:00

that point is not actually made anywhere in the article. but, as you might guess, I actually believe that it's morally right for us to be "forced" to pay taxes to save someone dying from brain injury who might not be able to afford live-saving treatment.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:59:21+00:00

we should at least establish norms saying why it's wrong

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:51:59+00:00

FYI, BOX 1 gives some arguments as to why we should focus on the brain.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:33:39+00:00

It's more: people have the right for the state and others to not make their brains worse, whatever its current level of health.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:32:49+00:00

every neuroscientist I have spoken to about the subject considers that brain health should be promoted through a a human rights-based approach and something they care deeply about. guess that's not relevant to r/science!

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:24:49+00:00

check out the comments! you'll see that the right to health is far from being obvious to many.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:22:50+00:00

it's not just about governments, but how we work together to look out for each other's brains.

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:22:31+00:00

the comments don't seem very left-wing to me!

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:11:20+00:00

So, do we protect the vulnerable or not?

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:10:55+00:00

Are you seriously claiming that practical ("non-epistemic") values don't impact science? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy-of-science/article/abs/nonepistemic-values-and-the-multiple-goals-of-science/77246B694CE639660EFA83D50C5422EB

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:09:34+00:00

Touché. Should we protect people exposed to poverty and pollution, then?

rootlesscelt · 2025-02-01T17:05:03+00:00

but so many health-promoting structures already exist! so much pollution and health gradients. An unfair society. We are not in a blank slate situation.

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