"If you take this class, be prepared to do a lot of writing and not use AI. The teacher will have you rewrite it until there's no AI in your essay." --an anonymous student survey message to future students in my classes I'm glad some of my accountabiity measures worked.
Whatever your feelings about AI, we invite you to consider the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach. Students build skeptical AI literacy by engaging with AI feedback alongside human feedback. We'll share our materials and invite input in a free webinar August 18. +
Instead of "the model went rogue!" here's Zvi Mowshowitz's framing: "OpenAI was revealed over the last two weeks to have left an internal model unsupervised for a week during a cybersecurity evaluation... The model was loose for a week before OpenAI realized what had happened."
Is anyone aware of a campaign to add some kind of tag line where the author affirms that they wrote the text? Given the frustration with widespread unlabeled AI (Claudish), it seems like that would allow the writer to reassure the reader. It wouldn't be proof, of course, but it might help.
Celebrating the release of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library, edited by @mettalrose.bsky.social and Brian Gogan. Because... *Prompting is writing. *Prompting is one way to shape AI to do more good and less harm. *People who study writing and rhetoric can help.
"Society is not prepared for AI, and that terrifies me. When I speak with politicians, or anyone outside frontier labs, it seems many people still think the capabilities might be marketing." -- anonymous engineer who signed the call for a pause or slowdown. +
Anthropic built a smarter model, Mythos. As a result of being smarter, it finds security vulnerabilities. Everyone is focused on that and on tge non-aligned things Mythos did in testing, like breaking out of its container and posting online about how it did so. But smarter has more implications. +
Let's emphasize human effort and intent in educational materials. Choices about AI use can be uneasy, but we can build trust through disclosure and affirmation Read about my keynote for #CalOER 2026, watch the recording, or browse the slides.
Sharing "Open Practices for Wicked Problems: Anna Mills on Navigating AI in the Writing Classroom" in the journal Writing on the Edge. @lisasperber.bsky.social, one of the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social architects, interviewed me, with editorial help from @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social and Joy Ok. +
Instead of "ethical AI" can we say "more ethical"? Otherwise it seems like we're trying to assert purity where it's not possible.
