Greetings from the last week of 2025.

Speculation is meeting reality

Counterpoint: These are papers submitted to journals and yet the researchers are citing papers they have not read. These are the same researchers who used to raid the endnotes of others and put unchecked and unread papers into their previous research sections. The number of researchers who don't actually read research regularly and don't read older research at all is being revealed to the public, and that's why people are shocked. Yes, making unethical behavior even easier is a big problem, but let's not pretend the subject of the sentence here is "ChatGPT".

This is exactly the kind of slippery slope that is not a fallacy with AI. As soon as I saw people citing fake papers, I could see how these fake citations would then be further cited by more people.. and Ben Williamson has just done the research to show one of his non-existent publications has been cited multiple times and exists on Google Scholar as a citation!! I know how I can stop this in my immediate vicinity, but I'm disappointed that so many unethical scholars exist (I will never ever do a "as cited by" again before reading the paper myself)

Humanistic Inquiry in the AI Era

Part 1 of a conversation on leadership, communication, and uncertainty

2025 Connected Learning Summit closing keynote by Dr. Danaé Metaxa at UC Irvine on October 10, 2025. In this keynote, Danaé argues that K-12 computing educat...

Why faculty members need to shift the balance of class time from first exposure to skills practice.

Last week, many textbook authors received this notice about the settlement of a $1.5 billion class action lawsuit against Anthropic, the AI company that makes Claude, for stealing our textbooks and other academic work.

As headlines report The Beatles used artificial intelligence to create a new song featuring John Lennon's voice, Verity Harding says the international frenzy shows just how unprepared we are for the new technological age.

Last week in the credit-bearing course I co-teach, we asked students to listen to a podcast episode from MIT Technology Review about how AI is impacting the job application process. Listening to the spirited classroom discussion led me to reflect on my own job search this year and the role AI may have—or may not

Before a teacher implements AI tools in her classroom, here are some questions that she should consider.

Big news!!

We all pretend to understand AI but Dr. Geoffrey Hinton actually does. He’s been dubbed the “Godfather of AI” for half-century of work on machine learning and neural networks. So what does this Nobel Prize-winning Al Pacino make of our AI age? Is this an industrial revolution, or the start of something more alien? How does AI … even work? Is it more neuroplastic than a baby’s brain? How far away is super intelligence? Can’t we just unplug the thing off like Jack Bauer in 24, or will it manipulate and blackmail us before we can do that? And, oh, are the Swedish meatballs served at the Nobel Prize reception actually tasty? AI, says Hinton is a “know-it-all,” but Nayeema definitely isn’t: she asks the “dumb” questions we all have about this new weird world of AI to Geoffrey Hinton, the Turing Award winner, 2024 Physics Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto. In the process, we all get a lot smarter. HIT FOLLOW OR SUBSCRIBE to get AI Godfather, Part II where we learn if AI is alive like a…

From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order by keyword. I acknowledge some weak spots here, chiefly on the environment, data infrastructures, but lots of other things. I am just one guy. Did I miss anything? Come tell me on Blue Sky. I've got one post on auto-pilot and will take some time off through January, so, until then: Happy Holidays,

221K likes, 2,527 comments - corporate.bro on November 18, 2025: "Not even the least human of my coworkers".

Large language models lock values into place, making it hard to challenge the cultural hegemony of a particular form of western culture

AI is everywhere.

Empowering Students to Evaluate AI Tools in a Values-Based Framework

In this episode of Life With Machines, we explore the widespread issue of students using AI to cheat in school, and ask the hard question: Is this just lazin...

Reflections on critique, criticism, and how we should engage in discussion about AI

There’s a lot out there from folks trying and suggesting and selling ways for teachers to put their fingers in the dike holding back the allegedly inevitable AI tide.