I can't think of anything that is uncritically adopted in academic, let alone artificial intelligence. Indeed, I think AI has to be the single most criticized technology I've seen in my years in the field. No other technology comes close, not even online learning itself, which was widely criticized in its own right, nor any of the artifices that have led to modern industrial society. As more of the same, this paper has the feeling of grasping at straws (I mean: they quote Jerry Fodor from 2000 as an argument against neural networks). But more, I fear the critics who have authored this article are attacking the wrong target. They write, "In addition to scientific integrity, university core values - such as sustainability, openness, responsibility, critical reflection, and diversity, equity and inclusion - should naturally constrain AI use in academia." Attacking AI instead of defending these values explicitly (and they do need defending) serves their opponents far more than it serves the values themselves.
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