Ashley M. London
@alondon.bsky.social
Law prof at Duquesne-Kline in Pittsburgh. Legal ethics and lawyer licensure reform are my areas of expertise. Fluent in ancient cemeteries, crumbling houses in VT, dachshunds, and candy.
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“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
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Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
Trainspotting. The middle-aged American female version.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Trainspotting. The middle-aged American female version.
I think we know what to do here, authors.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think we know what to do here, authors.
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Done and dusted. Just sad I can't vote in support of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in NY today! My PA elections will have to do. Go vote!!!
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Done and dusted. Just sad I can't vote in support of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in NY today! My PA elections will have to do. Go vote!!!
Surprise, surprise.
When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Surprise, surprise.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
My students are pretty cool. Happy Halloween!!!
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My students are pretty cool. Happy Halloween!!!
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“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Two federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden."
www.reuters.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*
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At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.
www.rollingstone.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
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tl;dr
1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning
2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching
3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs
1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning
2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching
3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs
Why I am not using AI in the classroom
Last week I spoke with some of my colleagues about the “challenges” posed by generative AI to our teaching. As anyone who follows me on Bluesky — or followed me on Twitter, prior …
memoriousblog.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
tl;dr
1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning
2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching
3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs
1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning
2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching
3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs
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ART HEIST ART HEIST ART HEIST n.pr/4o9JbkU
Masked thieves steal 'priceless' jewels from the Louvre museum
France's Interior Minister, Laurent Nuñez, called the heist "a major, highly organized operation" that lasted just seven minutes. Authorities were still drawing up the value of the stolen items.
n.pr
October 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
ART HEIST ART HEIST ART HEIST n.pr/4o9JbkU
Innovation? Nah. Just Rule 34.
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Innovation? Nah. Just Rule 34.
Yes, yes, it does.
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Yes, yes, it does.
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Absolute perfection. 🤌😘 @merriam-webster.com
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Absolute perfection. 🤌😘 @merriam-webster.com
Or law. Or legal ethics.
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Or law. Or legal ethics.
Our third annual Duquesne-Kline Law faculty junket with the Prime Stage troupe here in Pittsburgh at the Homewood Cemetery. It is awesome to work with people you like to ghoul around with! @rlheppner.bsky.social @profherman.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Our third annual Duquesne-Kline Law faculty junket with the Prime Stage troupe here in Pittsburgh at the Homewood Cemetery. It is awesome to work with people you like to ghoul around with! @rlheppner.bsky.social @profherman.bsky.social
Imagine that! This is why I am a part of the Lebo Unplugged movement in my own community. Kids do not need cellphone access in school. It doesn't make them safer during an incident either. (Banning guns would, though. But that's another battle.)
After this high school in Kentucky banned cellphones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books.
Kentucky joins a growing number of states, schools and districts that have been implementing new phone bans.
Kentucky joins a growing number of states, schools and districts that have been implementing new phone bans.
A school in Kentucky banned phones. Remarkable things started happening.
After Ballard High School banned phones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Imagine that! This is why I am a part of the Lebo Unplugged movement in my own community. Kids do not need cellphone access in school. It doesn't make them safer during an incident either. (Banning guns would, though. But that's another battle.)
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I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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MR 1.1 Competence. ABA Opinion 512. There is literally no excuse for submitting docs to the court with fake citations. Zero.
#LegalEthics Tidbit: Do I have a duty to detect opposing counsel’s #AI use?
A CA attorney used #ArtificialIntelligence to write an appellate brief, didn’t bother to check the cites, and the result was over twenty hallucinated and fake citations. The Court ... (cont.)
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#lawsky #law
A CA attorney used #ArtificialIntelligence to write an appellate brief, didn’t bother to check the cites, and the result was over twenty hallucinated and fake citations. The Court ... (cont.)
lnkd.in/eQQNJGTu
#lawsky #law
September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MR 1.1 Competence. ABA Opinion 512. There is literally no excuse for submitting docs to the court with fake citations. Zero.
