As GenAI technologies become more pervasive in higher education (HE), scholars call for guidance on AI governance. To meet this need, a Delphi technique and collective writing was used in gathering ex...

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On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective. For the main project page, see: the project homepage and this press release on our work. In general, as we say here...

Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing

Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing

One of the conventions of academic life is the work of justification. To justify. To say why we are going to do what we are going to do. We regularly have to justify why we want to research somethi…

Gap talk. You know, the “this research fills a gap in the literature” line. Most of us have made this statement at some point in our academic life. It’s the most common starter for journal papers, …

If you don't mind, I'd like to return to that other big story that appeared recently in The Atlantic. No, no, not the one where editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg describes how he was added to the Trump...

After more than 20 years attending more than 100 conferences, I still get a thrill from 3–4 days of academic networking. Connecting with…

The latest paper I can proudly add to my list of publications,  Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research …

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

On Friday morning, a few hours after I sent you the last newsletter, we picked Poppy up from the veterinary hospital. The nurse presented us with the little tennis ball Poppy had picked up in the park...

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization...

In this episode, we talk to Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Media at the University of Vienna, about the evolving landscape of AI and its implications for society. Mark br...

This paper examines the ethical, epistemological, and political implications of persuasive AI technologies. Recent research suggests that AI is roughly as persuasive as humans in many contexts. Should...

Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus ...

After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed incentive structure ...

Researchers from the NorthEast are invited to a local academic meeting focused on ‘Problematising education and digital technology'