In “Through the Looking-Glass,” Lewis Carroll’s sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” the author warns us to beware the Jabberwock. If he were writing today, he would probably warn us to be leery of artificial intelligence, with “jaws that bite” and “claws that catch.” The big difference is that AI has escaped the realm of fantasy.
These exoduses or reductions in duties of marginalized faculty have prompted outcry and nuanced conversations about the racism that can exist in scholarly spaces, as well as the insidious nature of feeling discriminated against because of race in a field that so often prides itself on its inclusive ideals.