• The sociology of the digital daemon

• ChatGPT’s advice on examining student essays for evidence of generative AI

• On sociological cynicism about AI

• The cognitive load of conversational agents is a feature not a bug

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• Metrics and comparison in a generative AI-infused university

• Generative AI, the threat of automation and the treatment/diagnosis link

• Generative AI and the threat to the academic profession

• The role of stories in sociological explanation

• Interview with Nature about post-Twitter social media

• Interview with Times Higher Education about the viability of Threads for academics

• The relational possibilities of generative AI in knowledge-production: an initial sketch from realist relational sociology

• GenAIEdu 2023: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education conference, Ulster University, Derry

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• It’s time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• The impending automation of grant writing

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI

• ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

• Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

• Niklas Luhmann’s critique of organisational sociology

• Reddit’s API changes and the new business model of social media

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

• Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

• ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• CfP: Social media in Higher Education: What’s happening?

• ChatGPT: How have different disciplines defined the campus in different way?

• Generative AI and the digital divide

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• The unsettlingly close future of creating your own automated information ecosystem

• Digital tools for each of the six learning types

• Some thoughts on generative AI

• ChatGPT: how could generative AI improve the flow of information within the unviersity system?

• How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

• How blogging is different from tweeting

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• ChatGPT 4 can now browse the web

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• Generative AI and the future of universities: four sociological forecasts

• Podcast: The Public and their Platforms – Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media

• Fully automated luxury universities

• Who is paying for Twitter blue?

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• AI as modernity’s last stand

• Computation as a climatological event

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• We are not the users of generative AI

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• Are universities too slow to cope with Generative AI?

• How do we inventory the use of generative AI in different areas of activity?

• Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

• What will generative AI mean for digital methods?

• Tristan Harris on the AI Dilemma

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant

• What is diagnosis?

• AI and Assessment: ChatGPT and the Future of Education

• Asking technosceptical questions

• Will generative AI kill discovery?

• Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

• Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• 📍Generative AI and the Future of the University: Three Events at the University of Manchester

• A poem about generative AI and its impact on universities in the style of Dr Seuss

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• The death of participatory media

• The environmental impact of generative AI

• Teaching with Chat-GPT

• Chomsky on Generative AI: “it’s basically just a way of wasting a lot of the energy in California”

• Building a personal knowledge management system with Craft

• A blog post I had completely forgotten writing was quoted in a Nature journal editorial

• This looks interesting – Mastodon: Research Symposium and Tool Exploration Workshop

• Chat-GPT: what are Mark Carrigan’s main arguments?

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm