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Henry Snow
@henrys.now

uconn is paying nearly 200k to get an AI analysis as a justification for austerity. adjuncts are paid about 6.6k a course

Sarah Hird, PhD@sarahhird.bsky.social

“Instead of taking the lead in assuring safe, responsible use of genAI, UConn’s top administrators are allowing students, faculty and staff to be exploited as customers and products.” Opinion piece by @uconnaaup.bsky.social executive committee (which includes me): dailycampus.com/2026/10/20/w...

dailycampus.comWho is pushing generative AI at UConn?For what purpose did our administration agree to enter student data into a corporate generative artificial intelligence (genAI) platform? In fall 2025, the UConn administration signed a contract wi…

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Henry Snow
@henrys.now

I find this much more insidious than say, copilot! university enterprise AI is often just wasteful (our copilot is worse than some of the cheapest frontier lab models on a consumer subscription) but decisionmaking like this is an assault on shared governance and democracy