Bruce Elgort – Computer Technology Professor @ Clark College

This morning, I sent this out to students in my courses:
Hello one and all,
Let me tell you something that makes a bigger difference than most people realize: caring matters.

I’m honored to have been featured by Clark College in their article, Understanding AI in an Evolving World, a profile of my recent Penguin Talk: Everyday AI titled “Understanding its Role in Our Evolving World.”
In the piece, I reflect on how AI has quietly established itself in our daily lives, including my own morning routine. Yet, far more importantly, I raise the deeper question: modern AI systems are astonishing at pattern recognition and prediction, but...

Today, my classes, which usually meet on Zoom, gathered in person. And wow, what a difference. You can read the room in ways you simply can’t through a screen. You see confusion, curiosity, lightbulbs flicking on, and you can adjust right there in real...

Workslop (noun) – The flood of low-quality, AI-generated work that looks polished on the surface but is hollow underneath. It clogs inboxes, reports, and project folders with half-baked writing, shallow analysis, and factual slush that others have to...