The Who's Who of AI

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

“"[T]his bit of slang means something: the young people have simply broadened the definition of AI to make it equivalent to 'bullshit'."”

““Name: “That’s AI!” Age: Brand new. Appearance: Primary schools everywhere. What’s AI? It’s just a thing the kids are saying now: “That’s AI!” or “That’s so AI!” But what is? Something inauthentic, unbelievable or rubbish.””

““Apps including Ollie, Fambot, Ohai and Ava aim to function as household managers, and the majority of users so far are mothers, according to the chief executives of these start-ups.””

“Put another way: what are unmet personal and structural needs that caregivers are experiencing that make bots and agents so attractive? The article's web title is "Can A.I. Apps Be a Mom's Second Brain?", which raises a question: where we at, dads? Not prom…”

“Of interest from Justin Reich today: a panel discussion on "faulty meta-analyses related to AI in Education":”

“I would love everyone in education, regardless of level, to watch this discussion of the grave methodological problems of meta analysis papers on "AI in education." We are years from even a potentially valid analysis. Anyone claiming to know something now i…”

“"Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration." - @hypervisible.blacksky.app”

“NEW: The founders of a startup called Outlit argue that the future of B2B sales is constant, AI agent-powered surveillance. “It’s one page, and it’s always updating,” one founder said of the platform, “and it’s all of everything we can find on them at all t…”

“"[W]e argue that the appropriate response to AI hype is not literacy, but contestation: undermining hypers’ legitimacy and building collective power to pursue alternative trajectories for AI," write @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social, @tisjune.bsky.social, and @b…”

“Join TODAY at 3pm ET and tell your colleagues! our 5th installment of our AI toolkit series about how the AI bubble affects us in higher ed and what to do about it. We will be joined by leaders from TIAA Divest!, Majority Action, and Make the Road. Register…”

“I am once again humbly saying that decisions about technology deployment on our campuses are almost always made by people who have never set foot in the classroom or done research. Most of these new technology deployments, like CircleAI here, are wholly unp…”

“Evan Shieh & @jbpleasa.bsky.social on why Jasmine Sun’s “No Data Centers in My Backyard” is "an illustrative case study for the persistent shortcomings of technocracy and the 'Abundance Agenda' to faithfully represent the material, socioenvironmental concer…”

“Rather than adopt a stance of critical optimism, educators and education researchers can - and, I'd argue, should - refuse GenAI. We outline three forms of refusal: curricular; bureaucratic; and administrative. You can find our article below; it's paywalled…”

““AI Is a Book Ban — Sonja Drimmer” https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2026/10/14/ai-is-a-book-ban > For one, the ease now with which information is availed to people by summary means that there is a screen between people and the actual sources of information t…”

“Grateful to the folks on the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions who put all this together. Resources include a zine, procurement playbook, bargaining tracker, AI/tech divestment guide, state policy tracker, FOIA guide, explainer f…”

“The tokenization of academic labour with AI is accelerating. Will we end up thinking of our papers and publications in terms of how many tokens they contribute to science? HT Sunil Manghani who has a fantastic post on this over on linkedin lnkd.in/p/ecU9Zi6S”

“Do you want to know what’s better than remaining “curious and vigilant” about using chatbots for researching election information? Not using them in the first place.”

“"With these collages, I am attempting to provoke thought about how linguistic and visual rhetorical devices are used to describe generative AI," writes @dalupton.bsky.social. Less industry-aligned AI literacy and more critical collaging, please!”