“It also frames people as either consumers or producers, leaving them no room to be resisters or avoiders, or to consider whether an AI-assisted approach to a task is appropriate, beneficial and without social or environmental impacts.” 👏🏻 This is my worry with where we are heading with edu in Wales.

Just Fancy That! Sam Altman on ads in ChatGPT. From the new Private Eye, out now.

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My employer just sent out training material on AI Integration and in addition to the wonderful definition of the term "Hallucination" in regards to AI, it also repeatedly stressed everything would be reviewed and overseen by Humans. So we're just adding another layer of complexity for no benefit.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

My latest post about bias in the generation of images using Adobe Express. www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/02/subt... #AI #generativeAI #hwb #adobeexpress #bias #AIbias #education #UKedu #primaryschool

Are ChatGPT and other AI tools going to lead to a ‘cognitive collapse’ in schools, colleges and elsewhere? My new @smfthinktank.bsky.social report explores the research evidence on the risks posed by AI in our education system. Read / download the report: bit.ly/4g7EKUR

AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company's stuffed animals. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...

Why would anyone buy an AI stuffed animal that records your child?

“….CBP would begin requesting additional information, including telephone numbers used by the visitor over the past five years, email addresses used over the past decade, and other details about family members.” I’m guessing GDPR is pointless then? 🤷🏻‍♂️ news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

This looks interesting. Just joined the wait list 👍🏻

The move is part of France's strategy to stop using foreign software vendors, especially those from the United States, and regain control over critical digital infrastructure.” I wonder the UK stands on digital sovereignty? 🙄

My thoughts about Bridget Phillipson's recent statement that "mobile phones have no place in our schools, but AI learning tools are different." Looking forward to writing about the AI tutoring tool that they are trialling in schools in the summer. www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/01/mobi... #education

A bargain 😳

For what it's worth, I thought I'd share my edtech blog with you. I find that writing a blog often helps in forming, articulating and reflecting on the things that I'm currently thinking about, reading or have observed. www.headinthecloud.wales

Our education should nurture minds, not rot them on the vine.

👏🏻👏🏻 “In the words of Jurassic Park scientist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) on re-creating dinosaurs, they ‘were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should’. Similar to the question I keep coming back to, “Just because we can, does that mean we should?”

Anthropic's project to "destructively scan all the books in the world" was actually viewed as the *more* ethical and legally sound approach to training its AI. Previously the industry standard had been simply to pirate vast "shadow libraries" of digitized books for free online. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books to oversee its secret "Project Panama," new court docs show — quietly buying millions of used books in bulk, breaking their spines and scanning them to feed into its Claude chatbot. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

The slippery slope? 🫤 #ai #generativeai #education www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Had a great morning with a group of primary school digital leads looking at critical AI literacy focusing on the social, intellectual and environmental harms. #generativeai #ethics #criticalailiteracy #primaryschool #education

Says the man shi**ing himself because of the billions he’s plowed into a product hardly anyone wants or will pay for. #microslop

This has been on my mind for sometime. I really regret that in the past, I encouraged schools to adopt both these US cloud based platforms 😕 Nationally, Microsoft has its talons in virtually all schools through our schools national platform, Hwb.

Slop shops

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Grok is so much worse than you think.

☀️ Summer School 📚 “Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming" Organisers and teachers: 👉 @marentierra.bsky.social 👉 @olivia.science 👉 myself Deadline for application: 🐦 31 March 2026 (early bird fee) 1/🧵 www.ru.nl/en/education...

This made me laugh 😂 #aislop #microslop www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/13/w...

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

And if you are thinking big business, also think smaller. Every one of our school districts needs to get off the platform. Contact the people that care for your kids eight hours a day and let them know it’s unacceptable.

typical ai use case

The same excuse every time from big tech - blame the users. Much like ChatGPT blaming a boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology. Utterly disgraceful 😠 MS concerned as UK gov is heavily pushing AI into its departments? #ai #generativeai #microsoftcopilot www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

“…. has admitted misleading MPs by citing a fictitious football match generated by Microsoft Copilot in an intelligence report justifying a fan ban.” Good grief, when will organisations learn? 🤦🏻‍♂️ #AI #generativeAI #football #police #microsoftcopilot parliamentnews.co.uk/west-midland...

“The government views non-consensual deepfake sexual practices as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and national security in the digital space.” Indonesia has blocked X. More countries should follow its lead — and not just temporarily.

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I don't want gen AI in my software I don't want gen AI in my phone I don't want gen AI in my email I don't want gen AI in my recipes I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation I don't want gen AI in my schools I don't want gen AI in my healthcare I don't want gen AI in my life

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Absolutely 👍🏻

Don’t miss the opportunity to cast your ballot for Worst Person in Tech! Will Elon Musk and Peter Thiel find themselves facing off again this year, so will another asshole move into the top spot? You will decide.

Exactly 👏🏻👏🏻