How unique are hallucinated citations offered by generative Artificial Intelligence models? This is greatly useful by Dirk Spenneman on "the structure, recurrence, and onward citation" of "phantom references", using a paper I didn't write as an extended example arxiv.org/abs/2604.16407
“The phenomenon — sometimes referred to as degree hacking, college speed runs or hyper-accelerated degrees — has spawned a cottage industry of influencers making videos about how quickly they earned their degrees and encouraging others to follow suit.”
Speedrunning college. What could go wrong.
I wrote about AI in schools, mostly to get my head into the space. My kid is in a district where they're not saying "if" but "how." Almost an exact quote. WE SHOULD BE ASKING IF!? Especially since the evidence looks like this is being forced on kids with little evidence and even less thought.
After advancements in gene editing led to the successful treatment of life-threatening health conditions, some tech bros are considering a new application for the controversial science: making super-smart babies to save the world from dangerously capable AI.
Back in 2020 we published a special issue of "Critical perspectives on AI in education" in Learning, Media & Technology - now we've got a call out for a follow-up that I hope really advances fresh forms of AIed critique @lmt-journal.bsky.social think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Back in 2020 we published a special issue of "Critical perspectives on AI in education" in Learning, Media & Technology - now we've got a call out for a follow-up that I hope really advances fresh forms of AIed critique @lmt-journal.bsky.social think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...
event graphic: "Resisting Big Tech Empires: The fight for the future Saturday 25th, London Cory Doctorow, multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, India Sofia Scasserra, Our World is Not for Sale, Argentina James Meadway, Macrodose podcast Khem Rogaly, Common Wealth Cecilia Rikap, digital sovereignty researcher, UCL Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism Rosa Curling, Foxglove Nafeez Ahmed, author of Alt Reich Sophia Goodfriend, journalist on AI and war Rebel Tech Alliance"
Looking forward to debating the contradictions of AI at 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' (Sat 25th). What's happening when $$$ is poured into extractive but failing tech? How is AI a diagnostic for the nihilistic turn in geopolitics? What can we do about it? www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...
This is from the paper they got accepted to a workshop. It barely passed threshold for the workshop, and contained many confabulations. It lacked context about the field, making incorrect or out of context citations, and incorrectly interpreted it's own results.
New article in Discourse journal (by Marita Ljungqvist, Anders Sonesson and Neil Selwyn) Article title: Fixing teachers’ problems? exploring teachers’ repair and maintenance work around generative AI technologies Abstract: The promise that AI tools will relieve teachers of tedious tasks and liberate time for more ‘valuable’ work with students has become a dominant narrative. However, the implementation of automated technologies raises questions around how human labour is implicated and situated in these processes. From the perspective of maintenance and repair studies we approach the often-hidden labour that teachers undertake when engaging with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies. Drawing on interviews with Swedish teachers we expose the tools’ inherent limitations in teaching contexts, and highlight the pedagogical, social, and moral dimensions of educational practice. We argue that these essentially inexplicable and ungeneralizable aspects of teaching – grounded in teachers’ situated awareness, professional experience, and tacit knowledge – cannot be codified or reduced to training data. Our results demonstrate the need for a radical rethinking of the forms of AI that education could benefit from – and those it should resist
"Exploring Teachers’ Repair & Maintenance Work Around GenAI Technologies" ... new open access article from our Swedish research on the considerable behind-the-scenes repair work that teachers end up having to do when using GenAI tools to 'assist' them!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
![Another founder, Amit Sevak, who leads ETS, acknowledged that they are still working out many of the details, but that the new institution could someday enroll “tens of thousands” of students, rivaling flagship state universities. Sevak said he’s “100%” anticipating that its instructors will be humans, most likely a large network of adjuncts.
“We still believe in the value of a human teacher,” he said. “We think that there’s so much socialization and collaboration that takes place [in the classroom]. There’s also the classic need for classroom management and some pedagogical oversight over the assessments.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a6m5puxjmwuwxhuviabkhg67/bafkreihr7omr6rrc2pa4m2fsupjgwttzqxqrz3qj7ej57gig6646o5eqwm)
Another founder, Amit Sevak, who leads ETS, acknowledged that they are still working out many of the details, but that the new institution could someday enroll “tens of thousands” of students, rivaling flagship state universities. Sevak said he’s “100%” anticipating that its instructors will be humans, most likely a large network of adjuncts. “We still believe in the value of a human teacher,” he said. “We think that there’s so much socialization and collaboration that takes place [in the classroom]. There’s also the classic need for classroom management and some pedagogical oversight over the assessments.”
From this article on the new Khan/TED/ETS, etc. alternative to higher ed which will be a combo of AI and adjuncts. www.the74million.org/article/five...
Now that Sal Khan failed to use AI to revolutionize math worksheets, he is gonna "revolutionize" post-secondary ed 🙄
Read @ddmeyer.bsky.social's post-mortem of the rise & fall of Khanmigo (RIP 2023-2026) to see what I mean.
We need guardrails on this stuff
danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...
Sal Khan is spinning up an alternative post-secondary credential in concert with the largest tech companies in the world. Anyone who cares about human-centered education should wish it nothing but failure. Thankfully, Khan has practice at that. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Yeah, that's been the GSV Ventures thing for a while now - "Prek to Gray" and "Weapons of Mass Instruction"!
The only reason ASU+GSV Summit exists is so venture capital investors can shape education to suit their ROI expectations of the financial cut they can get from that global $8-10 trillion education pie. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Education is experiencing the biggest evolution since the printing press was invented in the 15th century,” says Stephen Byrd, Morgan Stanley’s Global Head of Sustainability Research. “Today, as then, the use of technology in education allows faster spread of information and democratizes learning. It enables a myriad of new methodologies that improve the quality of learning, and it makes the educational system more efficient and less costly.”
The future of education always seems to rely on ahistorical, fictional expectations of the value of the sector that are calculated by the finance sector. And then investors act on those expectations, and the future gets made in the ways finance imagined. www.morganstanley.com/ideas/educat...
For years the edtech investing industry has been circulating these massive calculations about the $8-10 trillion education market. These numbers aren't real, surely. They're fictional estimates intended to incite investment with expectations of future returns. www.holoniq.com/notes/10-tri...
GSV Summit was founded in 2010 and, in partnership with ASU, launched the ASU+GSV Summit—the premier global convening for innovative leaders transforming the $8 trillion education and skills sector. The Summit’s mission—that ALL people deserve equal access to the future—is grounded in the belief that scaled innovations across PreK to Gray learning are critical to achieving this goal.
It's the edtech investors' annual party and deal-making event at ASU+GSV this week so expect crazy speculative discourse and even wilder value claims.
This $8 trillion valuation of the global education sector (and the implied mega returns possible), for example - where does that come from?
NEW Just a few years ago Sal Khan was predicting that AI was poised to revolutionize education. But his experience launching an AI-powered tutor, Khanmigo, has been sobering, he says.
The hope that it would quickly become a super-tutor still seems a long way off.
www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/s...
Students in China are renting AI glasses for $6 a day to scan exam questions and get answers in real time restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-glasses-ch...
Will AI agents and automated editors be the first readers of your next academic journal submission?
"The system makes preliminary evaluative judgments that humans then review. The human role shifts from doing the assessment to auditing the assessment." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/08/a...
Co-sign this whole thread with the addendum that forced usage of LMS, especially Canvas, will help goose lagging AI diffusion rates for the industry’s next capital raise.
“AI is still poised to shake up American education in many ways — by making cheating easier, reshaping how teachers approach their work, and changing the broader economy in ways that affect schools.”
But hey don’t worry it’s not totally ineffectual, it still does all the bad stuff!
Thanks again @benpatrickwill.bsky.social - we owe you an update.
Scienmag and Bioengineer have been removed from the Altmetric dataset.
AI has a role to play in the world, but AI-journalism slop, concealed or not, is not it.
New attention page: www.altmetric.com/details/1845...
“So far I am not seeing the revolution in education,” admits chief learning officer of organization responsible for generating much of the hype about genAI in education www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/s...
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...
The above post is the script for a keynote at the European Conference on Educational Research @ecer-eera.bsky.social and doubles as a summary of our research funded by The Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk analyzing the emergence of "educational genomics".
