What AI agents change for learning design I found learning design an interesting area because parts of the tasks involved can now be turned into repeatable workflows that run where the work already sits.

Some thoughts on my use of Codex for non-coding tasks: open.substack.com/pub/blueprin...

Diaspora Nexus: London and the case for trust as infrastructure Diaspora Nexus: London tested a simple premise: trust can be infrastructure. Here’s what we learned how we move from gatherings to a enabling platform.

Diaspora Nexus: London and the case for trust as infrastructure open.substack.com/pub/blueprin...

AI and Excel literacy parallels What everyone should learn, and what only some will need.

If Excel literacy became a basic, what’s the equivalent baseline for AI? In my latest post, I set out the essentials and propose a tiered model for AI competence in education:

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2035 UK job projections: Overall growth, with growth in higher-skilled, generally better-paid occupations, decline in most low- and mid-skilled occupations.

2035 UK job projections: Overall growth, with growth in higher-skilled, generally better-paid occupations, decline in most low- and mid-skilled occupations.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

A critical view on the role of AI in universities. My view is that the issues raised were evident pre-AI. We can still address assessment design, fund teaching, and use AI to deepen thinking, not outsource it.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Another favourite on talking with students About AI:

blogs.city.ac.uk/digitaltrans...

Insightful blog by one of my colleagues on AI and legal education and practice:

blogs.city.ac.uk/digitaltrans...

4 Ways Disruption Can Fool You … and how this is experienced in universities

4 Ways Disruption Can Fool You … and how this is experienced in universities ... profserious.substack.com/p/4-ways-dis... by the (often fooled) @profserious.bsky.social

#HigherEducation #Universities #HELeadership #Disruption #Strategy #UniversityGovernance

We need a funny button 🤣

Meta’s internal AI chatbot ethics leaked www.reuters.com/investigates...

Declining hallucination rates of OpenAI LLMs

Listen to our conversation with Sarah Knight on @jisc.bsky.social’s Beyond the Technology podcast on our ongoing digital transformation work at @citystgeorges.bsky.social: www.jisc.ac.uk/podcasts/bey...

Proton VPN UK sign up is up by over 1k%

UK choice: give the most personal of your data (face scan, driver’s license) to largely foreign or unknown companies who will ultimately get hackedOR bypass with VPN.

As image generation capabilities explodes, finance teams & universities are at a crossroads. Expense fraud and fake credentials are now effortless. Blockchain-based verification might no longer be a nice to have.

FT: Investments in Edtech companies now at its lowest in a decade.

Emergence of free AI tools is mainly responsible for the decline in online education companies.

Projects with 4o and Reason is already good enough. Upload a few key papers, set the context, and it’s that easy. We need to completely reimagine assessment purpose and journey.

DeepSeek has gone ahead of ChatGPT as the top AI chatbot in the App Store

Fast-follower…

World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Survey (2024)

The future of jobs is flexible, analytical, and digitally driven.

2024 UK Consumer Digital Index and Essential Digital Skills report

UK: People tend to unlock their digital confidence through family, face-to-face, online, and self-taught channels. Schools/Classes are under-utilised. Young people prefer self-taught, older folks prefer via family members.

o3 series 75.7% on the arc-agi semi-private eval in low-compute mode and 87.5% in high compute

AI cannot reason debate is officially over - albeit expensively for now

VC Investments in AI - All industries vs Education and Training

Hardly any VC investments in AI is flowing into 'Education and Training'