Phil Agre is no longer a professor at UCLA. This page and others by him are being provided as a record of his writings and are no longer actively maintained.
Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X
Lots of us are hashing out new plagiarism/AI statements to share with our students. Here’s a draft of the last part of my very earnest one. pic.twitter.com/4Nqh7rZDcF— Jeff Melnick (@melnickjeffrey1) September 1, 2026
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter / X
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) May 19, 2026
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used… pic.twitter.com/Rq6zUi5mRp— Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@LuizaJarovsky) May 6, 2026
Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.
Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]
Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)
Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Dear Alpha School: I Hope You’re Right
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College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
Official site for academic, artist, & advocate, Sunn m'Cheaux aka Gullah Teacha
"Sunn m’Cheaux is the first and so far only instructor of Gullah at Harvard. He says he’s honored and humbled to be here, but knows he carries the responsibility of sharing the language and history of his people to a broader audience." -The Harvard Gazette
Who Is Joel Kaplan, Meta’s New Global Policy Chief? (Published 2025)
The longtime Republican lobbyist for Meta was named to the company’s top policy role last week.
Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again — but he says there was no drama | TechCrunch
Andrej Karpathy, a widely respected research scientist, has quit OpenAI for the second time to focus on personal projects.
The Next Frontier: Sam Altman on the Future of A.I. and Society
DeepSeek
DeepSeek, unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism.
The Development Economist Who Wasn’t
Once dismissed from the field he helped found, Albert O. Hirschman feels newly relevant.
It's important to realize that Trump's science advisor Michael Kratsios, now presiding over the destruction of US science, has no science training at all. His primary professional accomplishment is loyalty to Peter Thiel, and helping Peter's Clarium Capital lose over a billion dollars 1/
capitolhunters
Today 19 Dem Senators helped enable both Trump's attack on science and the techbro power grab by confirming the most unqualified person ever to lead the Office of Science & Technology Policy: a non-scientist (BA in politics) who spent 8 years working for Peter Thiel. 1/
Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared. I love these students & I am worried.
