• 🎧 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

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Will ChatGPT eventually be unmasked to its users?

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• Generative AI for Academics

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• If AI was like a hammer

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Using ChatGPT to describe the style of images so you can reproduce them in DALL-E

• Claude: how can you help me analyse open response questions on surveys?

• ChatGPT: how can academics use the new voice conversation and image analysis features?

• Generative AI for Academics: 13 principles

• “You just cannot trust someone who is publishing ten papers a year in top journals.”

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• DALL-E 3: Draw me a picture of a capybara taking over the world

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education

• How Amazon define the difference between AI-generated and AI-assisted

• Interrogating AI in education: when peeking inside the black box is not enough

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• How to reduce the environmental impact of generative AI

• Using ChatGPT to fix spreadsheets

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

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

• Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

• The business case for generative AI in organisations will be surveillance

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

• Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter

• Tfw the only sections left in your book are the difficult ones you have been putting off

• Who does the thinking? The role of generative AI in higher education

• 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

• 9 ways to use use conversational agents as a tool for thinking rather than a substitute for thought

• Using generative AI to summarise conversations in order to feed them into future projects

• The poetics of disruption obscure the sociotechnical transformation of knowledge production