The belief that AI technology is on the cusp of causing a generalized social crisis became a popular one in 2023. While there was no doubt an element of hype and exaggeration to some of these accounts, they do reflect the fact that there are troubling ramifications to this technology stack. This conjunction of shared concerns about social, political, and personal futures presaged by current developments in artificial intelligence presents the academic discipline of computing with a renewed opportunity for self-examination and reconfiguration. This position paper endeavors to do so in four sections. The first explores what is at stake for computing in the narrative of an AI crisis. The second articulates possible educational responses to this crisis and advocates for a broader analytic focus on power relations. The third section presents a novel characterization of academic computing’s field of practice, one which includes not only the discipline’s usual instrumental forms of practice but reflexive practice as well. This reflexive dimension integrates both the critical and public functions of the discipline as equal intellectual partners and a necessary component of any contemporary academic field. The final section will advocate for a conceptual archetype–the Public Computer Intellectual and its less conspicuous but still essential cousin, the Almost-Public Computer Intellectual–as a way of practically imagining the expanded possibilities of academic practice in our discipline, one that provides both self-critique and an outward-facing orientation towards the public good. It will argue that the computer education research community can play a vital role in this regard. Recommendations for pedagogical change within computing to develop more reflexive capabilities are also provided.

Randy Connolly

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTING EDUCATION (TOCE)（原名为 JERIC，JOURNAL ON EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN COMPUTING）涵盖了计算机教育的各个方面：传统计算机科学、计算机工程、信息技术和信息学；计算的新兴方面；以及计算在其他学科中的应用。这些论文的共同特点是学术性的教学方法、对教育从业者的广泛吸引力以及与学生学习的明确联系。

ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), formerly known as JERIC, JOURNAL ON EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN COMPUTING, covers all aspects of computing education, including traditional computer science, computer engineering, information technology, and informatics, as well as emerging areas of computing and its applications in other disciplines. The common features of these papers are their academic teaching methods, broad appeal to educators, and clear connections to student learning.

《ACM Transactions on Computing Education》（原名 JERIC，JOURNAL ON EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN COMPUTING）涵盖计算机教育的各个方面，包括传统的计算机科学、计算机工程、信息技术和信息学，以及计算的新兴领域和计算在其他学科中的应用。这些论文的共同特点是采用学术性的教学方法，广泛吸引教育从业者，并与学生的学习有明确的联系。

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Public Computing Intellectuals in the Age of AI Crisis

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