Megan Fritts (@freganmitts) / X

Megan Fritts

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Megan Fritts

@freganmitts

Asst Prof of Philosophy @UALR. Writing about technology, bioethics, and religion. Mother of daughters. Co-host of @philofringes podcast with @frankviii

Little Rock, AR

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Joined August 2017

Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Feb 3, 2025
“I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us” that’s my guy.
Variety
@Variety
Feb 3, 2025
Nicolas Cage says "protect yourselves from AI." “There is another world that is also disturbing me, and it’s happening right now around all of us — the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Jul 28, 2025
My students are now becoming openly upset with me for upholding my AI policy because “none of my other professors care.” This demonstrates the importance of both faculty solidarity and administrative support, but those are both pipe dreams.
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
May 14, 2025
Impossible to overstate how much worse this is than students using ChatGPT. If you do this, quit your job.
Dan Walden
@dwaldenwrites
May 14, 2025
Replying to @dwaldenwrites
if you are caught doing this you should be put into the stocks so the students can pelt you with vegetables, then ritually expelled from the faculty like the scene in Beckett
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Aug 28, 2024
Second week of the semester and I've already had students use (and own up to using) ChatGPT to write their first assignment: "briefly introduce yourself and say what you're hoping to get out of this class". They are also using it to word the *questions they ask in class*.
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Aug 8, 2024
Embarrassed to be asking this at the age of thirty-three years but: where do people get couches, aside from thrift stores, that aren’t like $10k?
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Apr 27, 2024
What is this tiny handle on the syrup vessel for
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Aug 28, 2024
Replying to @freganmitts
At this point LLMs-in-the-classroom apologists should be embarrassed. Students aren't just using this stuff as a "problem solving tool" or whatever BS people spout, they're using it to forget how to talk. Impossible to be pessimistic enough about it tbh.
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Aug 28, 2024
Replying to @freganmitts
And before anyone comes at me, I'm not disparaging my students. We're all inclined to seek out ease even when it's ultimately to our detriment. They're largely victims of people who could have done something about this being wildly and irresponsibly passive about this issue.
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Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Nov 2, 2022
You: “I’d never cross a picket line” Me: *philosopher voice* Consider the following case: a child is drowning in a pond across from you. Between you and the child is a picket line of union protesters. There are no other possible rescuers. Unless you cross the line, the ch
Megan Fritts
@freganmitts
Jul 29, 2025
As someone whose job is mostly researching and formulating arguments, I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: no it absolutely does not.
James Miller
@JimDMiller
Jul 29, 2025
Replying to @bumberfuck @nowhesobs and @freganmitts
Teaching students how to best research and formulate an argument now requires them using AI.
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