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Reed, on the subject of AI Feasibility, a good term btw, The keynote speaker at the University of Missouri-Columbia's recent Celebration of Teaching Conference, Regan Gurung, suggested that we need to evaluate when to use or not use an AI based on what he called the FEAL framework:

Faster - can AI help us do the job faster, or is our skillset such that it would hinder us?

Ethical - can we use AI responsibly for a given task?

Accurate - how accurate is the AI in performing this task?

Learning - does using AI for a task help or hinder our learning?

I find that a useful start.

Of your other points, would you clarify what you mean by "machinations" in "machinations and functions of generative artificial intelligence" - that is unclear to me, particularly since machinations has a sinister connotation to me.

My biggest criticism of most of the AI literacy frameworks is that there is a lack of any larger contexts. I understand that they have to be focused, but I also believe they have to be embedded in an understanding of the history/sociology of technology and also in a broader understanding of intelligence, consciousness, and sentience across the natural world - a field of study that is constantly expanding and should affect both how we understand and use AI.

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