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1. AI chat logs have timestamps

   I believe at least half of my students are using AI inappropriately as of this fall 2026 semester. They are likely violating academic integrity policies …

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2. AI and student task horizons

   A useful metric for AI’s ability is the duration of a task it can complete (e.g., METR measures AI success on lengthy, expert-level …

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3. Retirement (and AI)

   My quick experiment with Pangram in July led to me becoming the bookends in a story about Pangram and higher education, including my plan to …

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4. Pangram Seems to Work and Students Don’t Like It

   As the fall semester approaches, I have two questions. How good is Pangram.com at avoiding false positives for AI prose, and has student AI …

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5. Student AI use: Stupid, sneaky, and skillful

   Another academic year concludes in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). The chatbots are certainly more capable: ChatGPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1, and Opus …

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6. Reviewing students’ version histories for AI

   This semester I required students to share the version histories of their writing.

   All assignments submitted to Canvas must have an appendix with a link …

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7. Accepting Feedback from Word/GDoc Users as Markdown

   When I ask people to give me feedback, I’d like them to work with whatever format or app is most convenient to them. I …

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8. Claude is HAL: AI blackmail and murder

   In their new paper, Anthropic identified a number of scenarios in which current models would harm people in ways reminiscent of HAL 9000, from Arthur …

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9. AI: learning, teaching, and dishonesty

   I love learning, and AI is an excellent tool for that—though we must be wary of hallucinations and verisimilitude. I love sharing what I …

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