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  • Even frontier models give wrong answers to financial questions more than half the time

  • The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

  • The museum of meaningless metrics

  • The OU Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy Skills

  • How is metacognitive laziness with AI mediated by groups?

  • Helping students out of AI-spirals

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

  • Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

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

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

  • Do large language models have a psychology?

  • The most unnerving AI slop I’ve seen in ages

  • Which types of media does AI cite?

  • UCU’s 10 principles for AI

  • Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

  • Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

  • 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

  • Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

  • Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube

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

  • Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

  • How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

  • A systems sensibility rather than a systems theory

  • A single point of failure for all the world’s digital infrastructure

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

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