• How are people using Claude?

• The first reviews of Generative AI for Academics have arrived

• A list of interesting Generative AI tools I want to explore

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• There are a huge number of Generative AI for Academics courses for sale on Udemy

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Be aware your Bluesky posts are being scraped for AI training

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• What is ChatGPT? An introduction to humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism

• Ten arguments about scholarly use of LLMs

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• LLMs are rubber ducks that can talk back to you

• How do you socialise a chatbot? The philosophical training of Anthropic’s Claude

• A journalist has published GenAI hallucinations about my research in an article

• What is digital humanism?

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Marking or Grading in the Age of AI: What Every Educator Needs to Know

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• Interview about teacher training and generative AI in Times Education Supplement

• Will Google crack generative search?

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• The Deepfake Detection test

• Could Claude generate an infinite number of ways to eat a mango without eating it?

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• An introduction to GenAI for Academics in 15 Minutes

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

• Scholarly publishing creaking under the weight of GenAI

• The frontier models still hallucinate wildly for literature searches

• I wish Anthropic would stop trying to optimise user engagement with Claude

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• Claude can now replicate my writing style to an eery degree

• How to use Claude to analyse your eBook highlights and notes

• Academic Publishing in an Era of ChatGPT

• Generative AI Beyond the Bubble: Looking Ahead to the 24/25 Academic Year

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• In the near future academic copy editing will be AI-driven

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• 🏃‍♂️ Claude the exercise coach

• GenAI beyond the bubble

• The weird poetry which ensues when Claude tries to read my handwriting

• Communicating with a computer through inner speech

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• Against an instrumentalist understanding of AI: critical realism and conceptualising artificial intelligence

• What will be left after the GenAI bubble bursts?

• Ten propositions about generative AI and the future of academic writing

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• Some thoughts on machine translation in higher education

• Some thoughts on the emerging platform economies of generative AI

• Will GenAI be seized upon as a short-term funding fix for UK higher education?

• We’re now up to 7 episodes of our podcast about generative AI in higher education

• Can you get Claude to explain why it refuses to insult you? An exploration of LLMs, guard rails and self-reference

• Are special issues of journals becoming the norm rather than the exception? How will GenAI interact with this process?

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• You can now build and publish simple web apps using Claude

• Two ways to use Claude as a meeting scribe

• Claude 3 onwards is considerably less prone to hallucinate than other LLMs

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• A prompt to turn Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Claude 3 Opus, ironically written by the former

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?