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About theCoreAI
The purpose of this series of articles is to elevate the conversation across campus on topics surrounding AI and its various impacts on Whitworth. Stealing from a recent interview with CS professor Greg Benson (University of San Francisco), [Students] are at an amazing time in computer history. In my lifetime, this is the most significant…
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Going Meta: A blog post about why this blog should exist – with other reflections on recent activities at Whitworth U.
Matthew Bell, 24 April 2025 Recently, I received two invitations. The first was from the School of Continuing Studies at Whitworth University, and it was an invitation to organize a college-credit bearing conversation between non-traditional students pursuing upskilling, on the one hand, and Whitworth faculty on the other. The topic of the conversation was the…
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Hidden Monsters… I mean, Motivations
Scott Griffith, 2 February 2025 Bias Identification For where I am going in this post, I think it is important to give some contextualizing information on my biases. I don’t think of myself as an expert in areas of business, cultural / political movements or history. While I am not at all qualified to speak…
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A Rant on AI Advertising
Peter Tucker, 29 January 2025 Companies are trying to convince you that you can rely on their AI to solve your problems, and that message is showing up in a number of commercials. The first advertisement that I was aware of was from Microsoft during Super Bowl LVIII (2024). The ad shows one person after…
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Taking a Page from an Old Playbook: A Bonkers Synthetic Proposal on Inviting Collaboratively Active Learning at the Dawn of LLM-AIs
Matthew Bell, 20 January 2025 mbell@whitworth.edu I can’t resist opening this reflection by going meta and relating an experience I had just as I began to write my first draft. I begin almost anything by first locating where in my filesystem I wish to save my creation; I then click the button labeled ,…
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The Line, the Loop and the Lantern: A Short Essay on AI, Learning, and Values
Kent Jones, 22 January 2025 The Line: Learning Requires External Input Some of my earliest memories center around questions of learning, knowledge, existence and boundaries. I distinctly remember standing in our dining room, the polished cement floor cooling my bare feet. I closed my eyes and imagined flying through the stone walls of our bungalow,…
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Love of Craft
Scott Griffith, 9 November 2024 Introduction As I have solidified into my full ‘adult’ form, I have found myself deeply interested in process-oriented hobbies. I have a long history of tinkering with Illustrator designing t-shirts; some that my formally-trained-and-actual-artist partner has said are “pretty good.” Sitting down at my computer to translate a concept in…
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Why Should I Hire You When AI Can Do Your Job for Free?
Peter Tucker, 13 November 2024 I came across a LinkedIn post in fall 2023 that basically said, “If, in your resume, you can’t show me how you use generative AI to support the work you do, I don’t want to interview you.” I thought that to be a harsh and odd line to draw, but…