• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

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

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

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• The almost infinite range of cases to which shallow fakes can be applied

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• 🤖 Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving

• What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

• 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

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

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

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

• Juri Lotman’s semiotics as a theoretical resource for making sense of the cultural ontology of generative AI

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

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

• What makes Claude Claude?

• 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?

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• A map of AI productivity tools

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• The disturbing world of GAI-video

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• 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

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

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

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

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

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

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

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence

• “You must have been subjected to another AI generated audiotrack, I never said any such thing”

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

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

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

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

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• 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

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

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

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

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

• The three forces that will drive the rollout of generative AI

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• How to reduce the environmental impact of generative AI

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• On sociological cynicism about AI

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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?

• How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

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

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

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

• Chat GPT and Assessment Reform: A Practical Introduction

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

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

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

• Science and scholarship in a changing Europe, July 3rd

• Is AI a threat to academic publishing?

• ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

• Generative AI and the digital divide

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

• Some thoughts on generative AI

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

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

• Top AI tools for knowledge work

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

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

• How generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• “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)

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• We are not the users of generative AI

• Are universities too slow to cope with Generative AI?