Another busy week left behind- including a training session at AA

After three weeks, I can finally rest on a Saturday, which still includes the embarrassingly dirty car getting washed, which in turn contributes more to Google Maps by trying a different mall.

The highlight of the week was a training session at the Anadolu Agency ,which is reported here in English.

The week included seven thesis meetings, mainly at the doctoral level, in three different universities.

Our doctoral program also had a separate session in which two of our graduate students presented their future thesis projects to the broader audience. Here is a scene from these presentations:

I honestly do not have any interest in new-age terms like “well-being.” Still, our senior undergraduate student organized a “summit,” and I, as the family’s technologist, was invited to speak about the growing use of AI as a therapeutic tool. I cannot decline a request from my students.

This talk deserves a separate post, but I emphasized privacy and personal data issues, pre-AI quantified self movement, the necessity of humans in the loop, and/but challenged moral panic against AI usage.

I was invited to a webinar on academic AI tools. This needs a separate post, and I will do that soon. The webinar allowed me to rethink what I do and do not benefit from.