Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The AI control problem is real, How do we ensure AI goals align with humanity's without unintended consequences?

An elevator pitch on bias in AI:
https://hackscience.education/2025/02/17/elevator-pitch-is-removing-explicit-personal-factors-enough-to-prevent-ai-bias/

Even the greatest scientific achievements are rooted in their cultural contexts. - Gould and Eldredge

Darwin wrote, “Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.”

Some ideas are beautiful and deserve to be true, but they are not.

“One must not confuse the fact that a structure is used in some way... with the primary evolutionary reason for its existence and conformation.” - Gould #biology

A new #digitaldivide is grounded in access to full OS computers with full-feature applications. folks folks have them and some folks don't. Everyone needs them. #edtech #edleadership #technology

“We talk about schools as if they are uniformly good or bad, as if we have complete knowledge of them, and as if there is agreement about the practices and outcomes of most value.” #education #schools

If you need it, design it and make it. #STEMeducation

“We have discovered it; we understand it; we have made some sense of nature’s confusion.” - Stephen Jay Gould reminds us of the true goal of #teachers #learning. #education

If x = the current number of committees, then the answer to the question is x-1.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling

“Nature does not always match our faulty intuitions.” -Stephen Jay Gould

“Natural selection is therefore a principal of local adaptation, not of general advance or progress.” -Gould #biology #science #evolution

“Theory, of course, permeates everything we do.”

I’m take on the “myth of learning styles” whenever I encounter it. The range of responses is interesting, but most common is “what do we replace them with?” #education #learning #teaching

When tackling complex social problems, it's crucial to avoid simplistic, one-size-fits-all solutions.

Engaging diverse stakeholders and considering their values is essential for creating acceptable and effective solutions to social problems.

Nature often comes to us as irreducible continua. -Stephen Jay Gould

Not all patterns have meaning.