Students are on Spring Break and campus offices are closed for a day of "staff professional development." We have a guest speaker leading a hands-on workshop on how AI is going to help us do our work better and more efficiently. 🧐😒🙄🤬
Ugh.
If we can't be bothered with or trusted to do our own work as an institution or a society, or to be sufficiently creative without "AI-powered content creation tools," we're not in a good place. And I can't help thinking admin is hoping this will help them eliminate positions, eventually.
@canticanovae Your feeling is that they will eliminate positions rather than increase enrollment? The fear with improving productivity through technology is always that people will lose jobs, but historically, the result is that lower cost increases demand to the point where more people are needed than before the disruption.
@antares We can hope for that. Speakers suggested advances in tech lead to new types of jobs, which could also happen. My optimistic colleague hopes it will lead to a shorter work week. Maybe someday.