Key Points
Donna Haraway's 1985 essay, A Cyborg Manifesto, promoting an alternative view of gender, proposed the abolition of rigid boundaries between organisms and machines, and the radical idea that humans and computers could fuse into a single functioning system...
Since then, every disruptive technology has spawned some controversy, none more so than ChatGPT..
A 2023 study has shown that for the first time since 1932, the Flynn Effect - a measure of cognitive abilities based on parameters that include verbal, mathematical, critical reasoning, and spatial skills - has reversed, signalling a decline among adults during 2006-18..
Similarly, as academic institutions move towards greater objectivity to drive favourable student outcomes - where understanding is checked through closed questions, multiple choice items and the simple reproduction of knowledge - the likelihood of fraud increases disproportionately...
A recent University of Wisconsin Free Speech Study found that almost 30% of its students believe that expressing views that are considered offensive is an 'act of violence' toward vulnerable people. 33% feel that students who express such views should be silenced by the instructor, and 42% feel that students should complain to university administrators if the instructor utters something 'harmful'..
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