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“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

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The key to understanding AI's place in human society is the humanities, whose scholars have been studying the human-nonhuman relationship for centuries, argues Dr Elvis Imafidon.

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Approximately 70-75% of my classmates in my University of Cambridge Masters in AI Ethics and Society course are women. My professors say this is a general trend across all the cohorts that have gone through this program. Across the first three modules, women have written the best papers each term. These outcomes are not at all shocking to me as someone who studies the intersection of technology, gender, and identity. There is also early evidence that shows women, and specifically middle aged women, are the best human-in-the-loop governance agents because they are most likely to effectively challenge AI outcomes and question the validity of AI decisions. In this Harvard Business School article, writer Michael Blanding features the work of professor Rem Koning to highlight women’s lower adoption rates of AI tools and the potential risk this has for women in future job markets. The conclusion is that educators need to find ways to encourage women to increase AI adoption. I have a slightly different take than what the HBS features. I believe women fundamentally have a BETTER understanding of AI than men. And this makes them trust it less. In a paper published in the Journal of Marketing last year, researchers found that there is an inverse relationship between AI usage and AI understanding. The more people understand AI, the less they tend to use it. Those who see AI as sort of “magic” are far more likely to optimize their usage of AI tools. Women intuitively know that AI isn’t built with them in mind. Women make up only 15% of Machine learning researchers. The systemic exclusion and erasure of women from the computer science field has resulted in a paucity of women working in large AI tech companies. The solipsistic and sycophantic voice of LLMs was designed to appeal to male egos, not to women’s. The explosion of AI-generated pornography is feeding male gazes, not women’s. In the emerging workplace and marketplace where routine tasks will be completed by AI bots, we will turn more and more towards those people with a combination of technical and social-emotional intelligence. We will look to those people who can work with AI but also not allow AI to supersede human judgement. And I think in that market, women who are more willing to ask the hard ethical questions will be in a better position. | 90 comments on LinkedIn

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

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