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SUMMARY:AI "personalities" and the future of critical thinking
DESCRIPTION:Details\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this session we unpack how bots think and how they’re changing the way we think. \nEach talk will be around 10-15 minutes followed by Q&A\nAfterwards we’ll have an open discussion along with drinks/food at a nearby bar. \nTalk 1: Nurturing Critical Thinking in the Age of AI\nAs AI tools become ubiquitous in the classroom\, a pressing concern has emerged: cognitive offloading. When students delegate their thinking to an algorithm\, do they lose the ability to reflect\, analyse\, and critique? \nBenny Pan—an AI researcher and educator—shares the results of a targeted study within senior high school settings. His research tests if custom made AI behaviours have any effect in nurturing critical thinking and self-reflection in the senior high school setting \n————————————————————\nTalk 2: Anthropic’s Persona Selection Model: The ‘Cyborgist’ Shift \nRecommended Reading: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/psm/ \nNew in AI Alignment\, Anthropic has recently published a blog on the Persona Selection Model. Hazel Shanks will breakdown the results and the ‘cyborgist’ philosophy that inspired them. Let’s have a deeper look at how and why the “malicious actor” persona might be an accidental byproduct of how we train them.
URL:https://epicinnovation.co.nz/event/ai-personalities-and-the-future-of-critical-thinking/
LOCATION:EPIC Innovation Centre\, 76/106 Manchester St\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8011\, New Zealand
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