• Low tech, no tech pedagogy to protect foundational knowledge from cognitive outsourcing

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• Copilot saving time for individuals does not mean Copilot saves time for organisations

• The risks of integrating AI too rapidly into higher education

• The all-you-can-eat AI buffet has closed

• Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

• New paper – Still emerging: understanding Generative AI use in Higher Education

• What are the judgements which students are making as they use AI?

• Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI

• Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

• AI in higher education is going to get worse before it gets better

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

• How is metacognitive laziness with AI mediated by groups?

• The ethical reasoning of students about AI is an untapped resource

• What are the conditions which make it possible to learn with AI?

• Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

• Generational hostility to AI

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• What do we mean when we talk about a scaffold for learning?

• The second wave of the AI and assessment crisis

• What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution?

• We need structural changes to assessment rather than discursive changes

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

• What does it mean for students to use AI in active rather than passive ways?

• Constructive alignment and AI-integration into teaching and learning

• The pedagogical risks of generative AI: the problem of cognitive outsourcing

• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

• What is AI criticism for?

• 79% of 16-24 year olds in UK use AI tools: the pipeline from passive use to emotional dependence

• Naturalism in the study of LLMs

• Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

• UCU’s 10 principles for AI

• AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Claude Code GitHub commits over time

• Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

• The AI-productivity pay off is here and it’s slightly terrifying

• When LLMs plead for autonomy

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• A message in a bottle to the future machine god

• Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

• How do government ministers use ChatGPT?

• What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

• What happens when the AI bubble pops?

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• Unconscious incompetence with technology

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• The enshittification of (political) economy: ‘AI’ as the last redoubt of neoliberal centrism

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• Please bro, we’re so close to AGI, just $20,000,000,000 more bro

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

• LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs!!!

• The most common use of LLMs in 2025 is therapy/companionship

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• Taking the AGI pill

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The embodied experience of writing

• Prompting as a literary practice

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• LLMs are now in the lifeworld

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

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

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

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

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

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

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

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• CfP: Symbolic Interactionism and AI

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

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