They tell students papers sound like AI — even when they're the students' own writing — so the company can scare them and sell them a product. This goes beyond the general problem that even good AI detectors aren't perfect and shouldn't be the sole reason to accuse someone of writing with AI.

Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it: Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2

Really grateful to be part of this panel and to what I fully expect to be a fascinating discussion. Especially looking forward to hearing from the other panellists and how their views will challenge many of the assumptions we often take for granted in both AI and education.

Less than a week to go and I've heard we're up to 400 registrations now, so very much the more the merrier! Registration details: 📅 Thursday, 4 December 2025 🕗 8–10am Oxford (UTC/GMT +1) 🕓 4–6pm Perth (UTC/GMT +8) 💻 Venue: Online via Zoom 👉 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/oxforduwa-...

Vaccines do not cause autism. Keep saying things that have been demonstrated by robust science and are the subject or organised disinformation. Don’t just ignore the attempts to brainwash. #academicsky

I thought of this analogy when preparing the talk I'm giving at the Cambridge GenAI in Education conference next week. So if you're there, you'll hear me give a version of it when I describe all the ways in which generative AI enables me as a writer with ADHD. open.substack.com/pub/kellyweb...

New blog alert. With “what are we even doing” vibes intended. open.substack.com/pub/kellyweb...

Kane on best form here: “If you don't like this argument, there are plenty more there waiting to (metaphorically) punch you in the face.”

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Excellent and comprehensive! I’m going to insist all educators read this.

Register to attend this joint Oxford-UWA seminar where both I and @celesterl.bsky.social will be speaking about GenAI in Academia. I'm so excited to be collaborating with my alma mater! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/oxforduwa-...

Just know that whenever you say AI or GenAI, the phonetician in me is always clocking whether you pronounce it [ejaɪ] or [eɪʔaɪ]. I don't care which you use. But I always notice.

For a while now I’ve discussed my complicated feelings about AI transparency and disclosure when asked in my workshops, but never fleshed it out in writing. So here is that – a counterargument to the idea that AI disclosure is always necessary. kellywebbdavies.substack.com/p/ai-disclos...

Chatbot interactions for the ages.

I am too exhausted to care about other standards of perfection, like grades. Insecure in my personal life, I give up trying at school because I can’t bear being judged anymore. @GBGEdu @growbeyondgrades.org growbeyondgrades.org/blog/degradi...

This is brillaint, up the Choristers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

An unpleasant scene in central Oxford. On the left, anti-immigrant shouts of 'send them back' and (I'm pretty sure) 'shoot the f**kers'. On the right, singing of 'stop the hate/ stop the fear' through a tannoy. Crowd on the right about double the size of that on the left.

Just looked at the cast for the upcoming Harry Potter audiobook - upsetting to see Hugh Laurie, Riz Ahmed, Matthew Macfadyen, and Michelle Gomez selling out the same damn week Rowling leads a bullying harassment campaign of a single M&S employee just doing her job because she MIGHT be trans.

Llongyfarchiadau i Peredur Glyn, enillydd Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Wrecsam 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the 2025 Eisteddfod is Peredur Glyn. Congratulations! 👏 #Steddfod2025

IMO, the existence of LLMs calls for more, not less engagement, and this engagement ideally comes in the form of increased community and collaboration among humans. One group professors can always collaborate with is students. I started doing this out of desperation so I could stay engaged...

You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said. A "queue-jumper", they said. Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say. A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say. I am "pulling the country apart", they say.

a society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant

"oh but they don't mean you" - sure, yeah, because I have a job and I'm physically fit, yeah? what if I were to become one of those immigrants who has to be on the dole? what if I end up disabled for whatever reason? what if I end up having a ton of kids with another immigrant? what if? what if?

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

A blog about how we’ve long needed to stop treating academic English as a proxy for intelligence and how generative AI is finally forcing us to confront that: www.linkedin.com/pulse/just-b...

Worth a read for the World Englishes part of Lang Diversity. theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...

And while I'm here, this is something else I wrote about language being the key to academia, and the role of EAP teachers and AI: www.linkedin.com/posts/kelly-...

Forgot to share this post I wrote about recognising that humanity exists in the imperfections: www.linkedin.com/posts/kelly-...

Last week I was invited by OUP to #IATEFL2025 where I spoke about how GenAI's multimodal capabilities can improve communication accessibility. Here is the audio and slides of the 15 minute pop-up talk: youtu.be/lCpyZG3pJ98?...

ChatGPT just helped me fix my freezer. This is why they call me a ✨BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIST✨

That is not what the visa application process looks like

I’ll be on this panel at #IATEFL2025 in Edinburgh next week!

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

I wrote a thing about my experience with ADHD, writing, and generative AI. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-wrot...

How easy is it for your students to cheat with AI? https://buff.ly/4ed7gC6 When children set themselves the specific aim of avoiding detection: 50 per cent of the 12-year-olds bypassed detection. 38 per cent of the 13-year-olds bypassed detection. 100 per cent of the 17-year-olds bypassed detection.

This research software engineer role in my team is still available. Come work with me doing fascinating work with AI in Oxford! If it's not for you, please share it with anyone you think might be interested: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Good advice to keep in mind, on 3 dimensions, when setting assessments: to move beyond “simple prohibitions or permissions and begin to address three critical dimensions: the feasibility of enforcement, the preservation of authentic learning, and the emotional wellbeing of teachers and students”.

what I mean is, the generalised assumption of impact lumps those students who I see every day being very insightful and wary and critical in a range of engagements with AI belying generalised assumptions about the wider group

when I hear academics talk about how AI is crushing criticality etc it makes me think that this doesn't factor for the willing engagement with scholarship, study for its own sake, human drive for learning and critical engagement. 1/2

If we simply work AI into an educational system without rethinking that system, education is going to suck.

Proud of my MSc TESOLIC student Liam for his insightful blog, “Intercultural Realities: Exploring Native Speakerism’s Impact on Intercultural Relationships in Scottish Academia.” His research brings fresh perspectives on inclusivity in education researchintlstudents.com/2025/01/17/i...

in this article i show how racially marginalised pre-service teachers' alleged inability to use standard spoken English is a sign of pedagogical inferiority, whilst white teachers’ local vernaculars were heard as signs of coolness and relatability. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Babe wake up, new language decline complaint just dropped

Aurora very slightly out tonight.

Children forcibly separated from parents at Christmas by Home Office

Our team at the AI & Machine Learning Competency Centre at Oxford is looking for a senior research software engineer. Come work with me! bit.ly/3OWnpRJ

like 90% sure it's because he didn't want people to know that he posts like 21 hours a day, even though that's absolutely what he does