Thursday, August 20, 2026

Welcome to the Texas Higher Education Looney Tunes Festival (Texas Tech edition)

 
Headline:  New York Times, 

Vimal Patel reports:
The Texas Tech faculty meeting began amicably this spring, with offers of refreshments. Then administrators handed out reports, created partly by artificial intelligence, listing the lessons professors needed to stop teaching. 
“What?” one professor asked. “I don’t even teach those things.” 
“There are factual errors,” added another. 
“It’s A.I. slop,” a third said. 
Texas Tech is using A.I. to ferret out books and other materials that touch on topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologues are wielding technology to sideline subject-matter experts. 
That is not how the Texas Tech system’s leader, Brandon Creighton, sees things.

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