The person who has 445 AI-generated books on Amazon told @kashhill.bsky.social that “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.” (I wonder what he would think of Roald Dahl's Great Autom…
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Writing in the age of AI stuff
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom theguardian.com
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School wired.com
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion) insidehighered.com
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. - Ars Technica arstechnica.com
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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher nysfocus.com
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From the president of San Jose State who welcomed graduates using her AI avatar and set up the AI Everywhere initiative. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
The single most important thing I have done in my writing classes since 2023 is teach students how LLMs work--and to create curriculum for this that was adopted across first-year writing at Harvard. Right now we cannot assume students understand this-and it matters. www.nytime…
Worth reading this whole piece, which ends with something that I've been leaning on lately too: the answer isn't to give up. Writing/thinking/learning, all part of making meaning in your life, which kids need and deserve. And good teachers matter! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-…
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"Another strategy document describes Alpha’s plans to make Price a social media thought influencer...The document says Price’s content should “deliberately polarize” and that “educational influence belongs to the extremes, not the experts.” www.wired.com/story/alpha-...
Over the 6 semesters that I taught my writing course "To What Problem is ChatGPT the Solution?" (about AI, not using it to write), I saw a clear evolution from openness to AI as a "tool" to serious concerns about cognitive offloading, privacy, and deskilling/1 www.insidehigher…
From the author of The Future of Truth on the fact that his book had ai-generated fake quotations in it. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/esto...
Just two of many questions: 1. Why anthropomorphize ("female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair")? Notably, students will interact with the bot by providing a identification codes, so obvs. not like a human interaction …
Worth reading study that found parents are more willing to pay for premium AI subscriptions for kids if peers are using it, even if they have concerns. I heard this repeatedly from my own students too—that the fear of being left behind is a driving force in using gen AI. www.p…
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- In experiments on roughly 2,000 parents of 13-to-18-year-olds, willingness to pay for a premium AI subscription rose $1.83 for every 10-point jump in perceived peer take-up.
- Moving the scenario from 20% to 80% peer usage lifted parental spending by more than 60%, or about $11 for a three-month subscription.
- Telling parents GPT-4 users scored 'just under 20% lower' on later math tests raised ban support from 44% to 57% but barely moved willingness to pay.
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This is an extraordinary document in a number of ways but one of those is the many words that are used to write in such an unclear way. about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
On professors retiring early because of AI. This is the thing: we are going to need a new approach and a lot of good people are trying to figure it out but the headwinds are strong. I think it can be done, but we need to start by talking about writing courses. /1 www.chronicle…
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- Fitchburg State English professor Michael Hoberman, 62, is retiring in December after 25 years, saying he doesn't have it in him to fight AI cheating.
- Chronicle reporter Adrienne Lu names five leavers, including Allison Cummings at 61 and Jessica Wolfe, 56, who left a UNC-Chapel Hill chaired professorship.
- Center for Retirement Research data cited by Lu shows 16 percent of postsecondary educators 55+ left within a year of ChatGPT, up from 11 percent.
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Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1
Hear a lot that AI can be used to enhance learning rather than outsource but every day I get emails like this (subject:"Turn big ideas into A work") offering me 50% off Grammarly to generate my work with AI, check it to see if it sounds like AI, then rewrite it with AI to not sound like AI.
Google AI overview: It's like a page from a deranged children's book
Anthropic will pay a human $265,000-$295,000 for this role which suggests among other things that they think someone human should still know how to write and also that the someone who can still write is worth paying $$ and at least on those things we agree.
This is not at all what happens at the Writing Center I run but interesting that Turnitin is suggesting that human tutors are less competent than the "instructor controlled AI assistant"
It is hard to figure out if there is an actual literal way to read this ad that is selling a paraphraser to rewrite your paper while telling you that your paper should not be "what AI churns out."
Agree with the provost at Dartmouth who makes the point that universities need to find new ways to measure learning and that students need to be able to do things without AI. But I can't imagine teaching writing primarily as a way to learn to "supervise a machine" /2
I had a great time talking with @annhandley.bsky.social @cloeax.bsky.social and @sashastiles.bsky.social at the @wbur.org festival about AI /creativity. The transcript of our chat is now posted and here's something I said that is central to how I've been thinking about AI /1
The way to "sound like you" is to figure out what you think and say it. All of us who teach students need to talk to them about this message that sounding "like you" means "AI drafting, summarizing, and revising" because this message is on every platform every day.
Be sure to read this piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com by Jessica Grose. There's a straight line between what she's talking about here--college-as-trade-school-- and the options for how we deal with AI in the classroom. If everything is output and product, then the outsourcing of writing /1
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