DRAFT — under review
Ghosts

Week Four: Ghosts — Reading

[ ENG 6806 // FALL 2026 // WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 ]

https://fortune.com/2025/09/03/eudia-legal-tech-ai-startup-killing-billable-hour/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-02/will-ai-make-lawyers-richer-or-put-them-out-of-work

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/artificial-intelligence-is-now-an-law-student-study-finds-2025-06-05/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-medical-advice-study-1235399973/

https://futurism.com/openai-use-cheating-homework

Readings: moved into this week for 2026

from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Melanie Mitchell Substack 'Magical Thinking on AI', response to Friedman]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Mitchell post continues: Claude red-teaming, Shanahan on LLM roleplay]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Mitchell post continues: moral reasoning, magical thinking conclusion]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Sony Aibo Figure 22 and 'Chapter 8: Rewards for Robots' title]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.8 Figure 25 diagrams: robot dog reinforcement-learning iterations]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: 'Chapter 9: Game On' title, Figure 27 Atari Breakout illustration]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.9 text: transfer learning limits, Hofstadter quote on 'state']
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: 'Chapter 11: Words, and the Company They Keep' title, NLP intro]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.11 continues: rule-based vs statistical vs deep-learning NLP history]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.11: sentiment classification, 'Temple of Doom' review examples]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.11 Figure 35 word2vec diagram and 'company it keeps' text]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: 'Chapter 12: Translation as Encoding and Decoding' title, Google Translate anecdote]
from the 2025 Week 6 deck — Mitchell part now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Ch.12 Figures 39-40: Google image-captioning system, sample captions]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Quote card citing 'Algorithms of Oppression', algorithms as arbiters]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text: AI as human rights issue, algorithmic decision making]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text on Bitch magazine article, Google Panda algorithm]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text on racism/sexism in tech, Black women and girls]
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text: 'algorithmic oppression... fundamental to the web']
from the 2025 Week 9 deck — Noble chapter now assigned in Week 4 [vision: Noble book text on missing social/human context in algorithms]