This short story was originally published in April 2021 in The Hawaiʻi Pacific Review and was subsequently nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Interface No one knew exactly why or how she died, but millions witnessed it in real time. Even though she didn’t breathe air, most agreed that she gasped at…

During college, I made regular visits to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, one of the most impressive modern art collections in the world. …

Opposition to generative AI comes in many flavors. People worry about what these technologies will do to our jobs, about the intellectual property issues, about ramifications for education and entertainment, among many other things (I’ve written about some of them here). Then there is the cry of existential despair. I…

Last week, I published a piece about my first encounter with AI “plagiarism” as a high school English teacher. Now that the spring semester is about to begin, I thought I’d share some of my developing ideas on how I’m going to adjust my approach to teaching writing. First off…

Quite a few of us non-artificial intelligences (a.k.a. people) have been thrown into a panic by the existence of ChatGPT, not because it’s so smart, but because it seems to “get” us in a way no prior language model has. It appears to understand the spirit of our questions, and…

It happened. My student used ChatGPT to write their final paper in my English class. How do I know? I don’t. That’s the problem. I mean, I do know. I really do. This student’s essay didn’t read like the rest of the work they’d done during the semester. …

When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world a couple of weeks back, it marked a clear line in the sand between the world we used to live in and the one we live in now. …