Whitney Gegg-Harrison

Whitney Gegg-Harrison studied Linguistics and Computer Science at The Ohio State University, earning their Bachelor's degree in 2005 before completing a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics in 2006. As a graduate student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, Whitney studied psycholinguistics, earning a Ph.D in 2014. Since 2010, Whitney has taught first-year academic writing as well as upper-level writing in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program at the University of Rochester, where they are now an associate professor. Whitney received the Georgen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2023.

Publications

AI Detection's High False Positive Rates and the Psychological and Material Impacts on Students
Whitney Gegg-Harrison, Claire Quarterman. © 2024. 21 pages.
This chapter, per the authors, explains the inherent impossibility of “AI detection,” and explores the material and psychological impacts of AI detection false positives on...