• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• 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

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

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

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

• The risk to authorship when using GenAI for notetaking

• AI Policy and Higher Education Under a New UK Government

• Generative AI and the Enjoyment of Academic Writing

• 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

• 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?

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

• ChatGPT knows what MA DTCE stands for but Claude doesn’t

• How to enjoy writing #23: be clear about why you are writing

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• Asking Claude the easiest way to perform a digital task

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• 📣 Generative AI for Academics: coming from Sage later this year

• 🎧 Generative Dialogues: a podcast about GAI in higher education

• Four useful roles you can ask ChatGPT or Claude to play

• If we don’t approach GAI with reflexivity then education is doomed

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

• What might a glitch aesthetic entail when applied to concept work within social theory? 6 speculative propositions

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• The perceived truth-value of deep fakes is less important than the fact of their circulation

• Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• E-mail based generative AI: a good idea badly executed

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

• ChatGPT is now offering legal theories about its own violation of copyright

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• The GAI literacy divide increasingly opening up

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Not only does ChatGPT think all successful professionals are men, it thinks they’re all the SAME man

• “The appearance of characters, including skin color, is randomly generated and not intended to convey any particular message or bias.”

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• A map of AI productivity tools

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• The disturbing world of GAI-video