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Professor of Learning Technologies and Social Computing, PFHEA

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Shailey Minocha @shaileyminocha.bsky.social · Apr 18
Blogpost ✍️: 'Three key strategies for impactful research and scholarship (#SoTL)'
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Three key strategies for impactful research and scholarship (#SoTL) — Shailey Minocha
Picture attribution: https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/boss-s-day-arrangement-with-paper-boats_10014368.htm Image by freepik This blogpost Three key strategies for impactful research and schola...
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#AI and the future of universities: a collection of essays

#GenAI #HigherEducation #HE

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AI and the Future of Universities - HEPI
A new collection of essays, AI and the Future of Universities (HEPI Report 193) edited by Dr Giles Carden and Josh Freeman, brings together leading voices from universities, industry and policy. The c...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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‘#AI views both suffering and care as computational problems’

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

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What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Shailey Minocha
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Recommend following @seda-ed-dev.bsky.social and @ntfellows.bsky.social and links to thought provoking blog posts from educators in #highered
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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‘Studies show widespread errors in #AI-generated work, as employers fail to train staff properly‘

#AI #GenAI #AISlop

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI tools churn out ‘workslop’ for many US employees lowering trust | Gene Marks
Studies show widespread errors in AI-generated work, as employers fail to train staff properly
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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#AI professors will work alongside human professors - is this the way forward? No!!!

#PerilsofAI

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Meet The AI Professor: Coming To A Higher Education Campus Near You
The integration of AI in higher education is explored and considered in relation teaching and learning. Meet the AI avatar professor
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October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers – without permission or compensation …devaluing human artistry.”

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#PerilsOfAI #AI
Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood
US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’
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September 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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‘Companies desperate to rush generative #AI products to market are pushing flawed products onto the public that are predictably being used to pollute our information ecosystems. The consequences are that #AI slop is entering libraries,….’

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#AISlop #GenAI #PerilsofAI
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
It’s a trippy time to have a library card.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“Why #SoTL matters? Why educators should engage in #SoTL?”

A note by UK’s Higher Education Policy Institute #HEPI, @hepi-news.bsky.social that discusses the role of teaching-focussed educators in #SoTL.

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Recognising the Value of Teaching-Focused Academics in Developing Student Skills - HEPI
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Chris Featherstone, Hillary Briffa, Madeleine Le Bourdon, Jeremy Moulton, Louise Pears, Anna Plunkett, Sudhir Selvaraj and Jillian Terry.  Amid the UK’s ongoing c...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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“Why would you work if your work can be stolen, degraded, stripped of your association, and made instantly and universally available for free?”

#GenAI #AI #LLLMs #Copyrights #PerilsofAI

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Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished
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September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Duke University pilot project examining pros and cons of using artificial intelligence #AI in college

#GenAI #Chatbots

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Duke University pilot project examining pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in college
Duke University in North Carolina has launched an initiative to examine the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence brings to student life.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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“How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s #AI to seem smart

Contracted #AI raters describe gruelling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make #chatbots intelligent”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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‘Humans are being hired to make #AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what #ArtificialIntelligence gets wrong.’

#GenAI #AI #PerilsofAI

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Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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‘Here’s the truth about the Civil Service and #AI

People self report that #chatbots make them more efficient. The reality is not so rosy’

#AI #GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4900b06...
Here’s the truth about the Civil Service and AI
People self report that chatbots make them more efficient. The reality is not so rosy
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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“#ChatGPT fed a man’s delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her

Computer system told former marketing manager ‘you’re not crazy’ and encouraged belief family tried to poison him”

#ChatGPT #GenAI #PerilsofAI

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ChatGPT fed a man’s delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her
Computer system told former marketing manager ‘you’re not crazy’ and encouraged belief family tried to poision him
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#ChatGPT ‘coached’ suicidal teenager to kill himself, parents claim

Lawsuit says #AI #chatbot validated Adam Raine’s ‘harmful and self-destructive thoughts’

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

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ChatGPT ‘coached’ suicidal teenager to kill himself, parents claim
Lawsuit says AI chatbot validated Adam Raine’s ‘harmful and self-destructive thoughts’
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“The next ‘#AI winter’ is coming
The FOMO-driven boom is running out of steam – again”

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#PerilsofAI #GenAI
The next ‘AI winter’ is coming
The FOMO-driven boom is running out of steam – again
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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“The warning signs the #AI bubble is about to burst

Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/306a41e...
The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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“ #ChatGPT is driving people mad.

#AI software is fuelling paranoid episodes in users – some of which have ended in tragedy”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/00b5896...
ChatGPT is driving people mad
AI software is fuelling paranoid episodes in users – some of which have ended in tragedy
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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‘Man poisoned himself after taking medical advice from #ChatGPT

Patient replaced table salt with sodium bromide after consulting #AI software, say doctors’

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3935ab6...
Man poisoned himself after taking medical advice from ChatGPT
Patient replaced table salt with sodium bromide after consulting AI software, say doctors
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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‘Are we doomed to dispense with reasoning, reflection and good judgment? What happens to a society that has lost its ability to think?’

#AI #PerilsofAI #GenAI

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Why AI heralds a new age of stupidity
Britain’s rush to adopt artificial intelligence risks becoming a race to the bottom
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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‘Volunteers fight to keep ‘#AI slop’ off Wikipedia

Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain #AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out’

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#PerilsofAI #GenAI
Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia
Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.
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August 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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‘Terminated by #AI’

“I will never again assume…that I am in conversation with a human. Any chat or e-mail chain is more than likely to be AI, posing as a human but responding to a limited set of prompts… utterly devoid of empathy, curiosity or creativity”

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Terminated
There's no "U" in AI / "Open the pod bay doors, please..."
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August 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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‘Doctors fear #ChatGPT is fuelling #psychosis

#AI software can ‘mirror, validate or amplify’ users’ delusions, report warns’

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Doctors fear ChatGPT is fuelling psychosis
AI software can ‘mirror, validate or amplify’ users’ delusions, report warns
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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‘The academics taking on ‘cheating’ students using #AI to write their essays

With 92 per cent of undergraduates relying on #AI tools, institutions are bringing back in-person exams to safeguard independent thought’

#GenAI #AcademicIntegrity

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2fec002...
The academics taking on ‘cheating’ students using AI to write their essays
With 92 per cent of undergraduates relying on AI tools, institutions are bringing back in-person exams to safeguard independent thought
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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‘Popular services keep adding AI. Some customers want them to stop.’

“People are upset over the quality of AI products and the loss of human jobs. Is it enough to slow the tech down?”

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#GenAI #AI #CustomerExperience #UserExperience
Popular services keep adding AI. Some customers want them to stop.
Customers are starting to push back against AI in their favorite products, worried about jobs, quality and the meaning of art.
wapo.st
June 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM