The Who's Who of AI

““Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.””

“Good pushback from Harvard faculty against the dean who doesn't understand learning. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...”

“New preprint from me: 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. The paper treats AI as diagnostic of deeper contradictions, and argues that convivial practice can reclaim vital systems from the collapse of the technopolitical regime. doi.org/10.5281/ze…”

“"Although some time was saved with AI, that was more than made up for with demand to complete other tasks, resulting in 55 percent of teachers who say they use AI working the same hours as before, and 4 percent saying they work more." Uh-huh. www.theregiste…”

“Academic research measuring AI effects in education is appallingly biased already. New industry initiatives promise to hand research authority to big tech and construct even more problematic infrastructures for knowledge production on AI in education codeac…”

“OpenAI's "Learning Lab is being positioned as an ongoing research ecosystem rather than a single research project." What this means? OpenAI is trying to make ChatGPT a global focus of educational research as well as a core pedagogic tool. www.edtechinnovati…”

“Edu research is in serious danger of capture by genAI companies. They have research infrastructure most departments can't even imagine. But if you work with OpenAI or Anthropic et al? You're not just doing snazzy science but helping them capture the sector …”

“Erasure: "a process through which the surface features of academic writing (such as fluency, coherence, and formal structure) are preserved or even enhanced through AI use, while the epistemic, critical, and disciplinary dimensions of writing are progressiv…”

“While core content is retained when LLMs polish and rewrite texts, LLMs also homogenize writing styles, reducing writing-complexity variance ... emphasizing conformity over individuality" arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266”

“Google already had so much privileged access to schools in England for live testing AI. It was treating English schools as a living lab for testing Gemini for schools. Mad that it somehow lost the contract. What did it want that government would not give? w…”

“"We synthesize evidence across linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science to show how LLMs reflect and reinforce dominant styles while marginalizing alternative voices and reasoning strategies." doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...”

“"The current state of AI tools, amplified by existing publish-or-perish incentives, appears to be pushing the system toward an equilibrium of more rather than better research" pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...”

“Google has been dropped from the Department for Education's AI tutoring trials in England. But what were the "preferential terms" it sought? Can only assume Google got greedier for access to schools and data than even the madly AI-friendly Dept for Ed would…”

“"Generative AI deserves scientific attention. But the rush to study it is ... flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...”