Chatbait and the TikTokification of ChatGPT | Lila Shroff on Rendered by Robots
In Episode 8 of Rendered by Robots, Lila Shroff, writer and assistant editor at The Atlantic and recent Stanford graduate, joins Spencer Striker and Alessandra El Chanti to discuss the blurry line between legitimate AI scaffolding and cheating, the dark patterns creeping into chatbots, and what it was like to be a college sophomore when ChatGPT took over.
Nobody Wants Your News App, They Want to Understand the World | Jeremy Gilbert on Rendered by Robots
In Episode 5 of Rendered by Robots, Jeremy Gilbert, Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern and Director of the Knight Lab, joins Spencer Striker and Alessandra El Chanti to discuss why we need to stop automating yesterday's tasks and start designing for what people actually need.
Clay Shirky: Learning Is Changes to Long-Term Memory, There's No Shortcut | Rendered by Robots, Ep 2
In Episode 2 of Rendered by Robots, host Dr. Spencer Striker and co-host Alessandra El Chanti (of Northwestern University | Qatar) talk with Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for AI & Technology in Education at NYU, and author of "Here Comes Everybody" and "Cognitive Surplus," about what AI actually breaks in higher education, and why the real product of education is changes to long-term memory.
Nataliya Kosmyna: Cognitive Debt Accumulates, You Can't Pay It Back | Rendered by Robots, Ep 3
In Episode 3 of Rendered by Robots, host Dr. Spencer Striker and co-host Alessandra El Chanti (of Northwestern University | Qatar) talk with Nataliya Kosmyna, Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab and author of the viral "Your Brain on ChatGPT" study, about cognitive debt, the neuroscience of ownership, and why outsourcing your thinking to AI comes at a cost you can't pay back.
Marc Watkins: The Quiet Disaster in Our Classrooms & Why AI Bans Fail | Rendered by Robots, Ep 4
In Episode 4 of Rendered by Robots, host Dr. Spencer Striker and co-host Alessandra El Chanti (of Northwestern University | Qatar) talk with Marc Watkins, Assistant Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi, about the "quiet disaster" unfolding in higher education and why AI detection software is a trap.
Rendered by Robots - Ep 1 | feat. Dr. John Gibbs aka “DrKnowitallKnows"
In Episode 1 of Rendered by Robots, host Dr. Spencer Striker and co-host Alessandra El Chanti (of Northwestern University | Qatar) talk with Dr. John Gibbs, Prof at UGA, CEO of Artimatic Inc, and influential YouTube futurist “Dr. Know-It-All”, about the future of teaching creativity in the age of AI.