The Who's Who of AI

“www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/b... Ed Markey reminds Google that public schools serve the public; not the growth of Google's addictive and harmful product.”

“Wearable device makers are harvesting brain data to train AI—without telling users | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...”

“The research record on AI in education is already pretty appalling. And researchers just keep cranking up AI to do yet more meta-reviews that then recycle the findings of sloppy studies like this one. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...”

“Maybe this explains why AI use disclosures on journal manuscripts claiming an LLM was used for "editing and language improvement only" usually function as warnings that 8000 words of unintelligible text are to follow arxiv.org/abs/2610.291...”

“"I can usually find a teachable moment in any situation. But if I can no longer tell my trainees—postdocs and graduate students—that rigorous scholarship has a value that an academic journal can recognize, then I’m not sure what kind of future, exactly, I a…”

“The Currency of the Journal Article is Collapsing: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...”

“"This seems counterproductive to what we're trying to teach.... Students need opportunities to navigate search results, examine sources, and draw their own conclusions rather than being handed anAI-generated synthesis before they've even started.” www.wired…”

“"Colleagues are worried about AI, about our voice, our comments, our images being repurposed without our consent, perhaps used to train AI or being distorted" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...”

“This piece on the Office for Students' and Department for Education's approach to AI and assessment in HE - demanding universities work out what to do about it on their own - indicates what makes this such a frustrating and enervating issue in the UK right …”

“Week after week, the most thoughtful statements about AI coming out of universities are from students. "If we change proven, effective pedagogy to match the constant forward march of AI, we’ll ultimately reach a point where no one learns anything at all. Wh…”

“So bad are the meta-reviews of existing bad AIED research that there is now a whole genre of meta-meta-reviews of how bad AIED research is. AI in education has a *serious* research and evidence problem. And it shows few signs of being resolved. codeactsined…”

“Seasonably scary claims here from a big trial of a Google Deepmind-powered AI tutor in UK schools that "because 'human tutors are expensive' and most schools can’t afford them," then AI tutors "that can perform just as well could be more workable" www.the74…”

“A new paper from me, on organised irresponsibility in AI estsjournal.org/index.php/es...”

“And Google is trying to habituate teachers around the world to its AI. Teachers are being trained to use Gemini in their own practice. That also naturalizes big tech in public services. blog.google/products-and...”

“But hey, if AI tutors are cheaper than paying more humans to work in schools, and if austerity is to be the perpetual condition of schooling, then maybe we can overlook the underwhelming results and problematic implications about gender and inequality? ai.g…”