Andy Liddell
@andyliddell.bsky.social
Principal, EdTech Law Center
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Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.
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:
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.
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More than 1000 French academics from universities countrywide have signed a manifesto declaring their conscientious objection to the deployment of degenerative AI in their institutions. #ResistAI ✊🏽
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
More than 1000 French academics from universities countrywide have signed a manifesto declaring their conscientious objection to the deployment of degenerative AI in their institutions. #ResistAI ✊🏽
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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The New York Times legal department isn't slacking. It filed lawsuits this week against Perplexity AI for unlicensed use of NYT content (www.nytco.com/press/the-ti...) and the Pentagon for violating the First Amendment (www.nytco.com/press/the-ti...).
The Times Sues Perplexity AI | The New York Times Company
Today, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI for copying Times journalism to deliver it to Perplexity’s customers without permission or compensation.
www.nytco.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The New York Times legal department isn't slacking. It filed lawsuits this week against Perplexity AI for unlicensed use of NYT content (www.nytco.com/press/the-ti...) and the Pentagon for violating the First Amendment (www.nytco.com/press/the-ti...).
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I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."
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Los Angeles public schools, like many Cali districts, uses software called i-Ready to do benchmark testing on how students are doing academically
But teachers and parents can't see the Qs students are asked. Why? B/c the software maker considers the Qs proprietary
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
But teachers and parents can't see the Qs students are asked. Why? B/c the software maker considers the Qs proprietary
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids
A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Los Angeles public schools, like many Cali districts, uses software called i-Ready to do benchmark testing on how students are doing academically
But teachers and parents can't see the Qs students are asked. Why? B/c the software maker considers the Qs proprietary
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
But teachers and parents can't see the Qs students are asked. Why? B/c the software maker considers the Qs proprietary
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Parents & teachers should know that I-Ready lessons are NOT mandated, no matter what your principal may be telling you. And there is NO independent research to support the educational value of this app.
Los Angeles public schools, like many Cali districts, uses software called i-Ready to do benchmark testing on how students are doing academically
But teachers and parents can't see the Qs students are asked. Why? B/c the software maker considers the Qs proprietary
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
But teachers and parents can't see the Qs students are asked. Why? B/c the software maker considers the Qs proprietary
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids
A growing contingent of public school parents say school-mandated iPads, particularly in elementary and middle schools, are leading to behavior problems.
www.nbcnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents & teachers should know that I-Ready lessons are NOT mandated, no matter what your principal may be telling you. And there is NO independent research to support the educational value of this app.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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The CIA has the OK to undertake covert ops in Venezuela.
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Washington D.C., November 20, 2025 - Fifty years ago today, a special Senate Committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church lifted the veil of secrecy on the clandestine efforts of the Central Intelligen...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The CIA has the OK to undertake covert ops in Venezuela.
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
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Part 2 of a series exploring the history of OpenAI, and people saying they’ve been harmed by ChatGPT:
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
The ChatGPT Deaths: Part 2. ChatGPT, OpenAI and Cyberstalking.
oncerns about OpenAI leader Sam Altman pushing past employee and safety experts’ concerns have only intensified after numerous lawsuits have alleged that Altman’s disregard led to the death of seve…
latenfour.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Part 2 of a series exploring the history of OpenAI, and people saying they’ve been harmed by ChatGPT:
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
Newly released court documents now allege that ChatGPT cheered on a serial harasser who several times physically and sexually attacked his victims.
latenfour.com/2025/12/04/t...
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I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.
The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."
Elon about to get big mad.
I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.
The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."
Elon about to get big mad.
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.
The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."
Elon about to get big mad.
I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.
The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."
Elon about to get big mad.
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Legal commentator and author, @barristersecret.bsky.social told Byline Times that David Lammy's plans were “badly thought through, expensive and likely to backfire.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Legal commentator and author, @barristersecret.bsky.social told Byline Times that David Lammy's plans were “badly thought through, expensive and likely to backfire.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
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NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
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It's so common in science that it's systemic to hide who funds you. Here Phillip Morris tobacco... These days AI companies
Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.
The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.
retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...
Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’
Hans Eysenck A “high and far reaching” number of papers and books by Hans Eysenck could be “unsafe,” according to an updated statement from King’s College London, where the psychologist was a profe…
retractionwatch.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It's so common in science that it's systemic to hide who funds you. Here Phillip Morris tobacco... These days AI companies
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Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk
‘built for user trust’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-goo... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
‘built for user trust’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-goo... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
December 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk
‘built for user trust’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-goo... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
‘built for user trust’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251203-goo... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
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lmaooo
“The numbers remain dismal. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found earlier this year that even the best-performing AI agent, which was Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro at the time, failed to complete real-world office tasks 70 percent of the time.”
“The numbers remain dismal. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found earlier this year that even the best-performing AI agent, which was Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro at the time, failed to complete real-world office tasks 70 percent of the time.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
lmaooo
“The numbers remain dismal. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found earlier this year that even the best-performing AI agent, which was Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro at the time, failed to complete real-world office tasks 70 percent of the time.”
“The numbers remain dismal. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found earlier this year that even the best-performing AI agent, which was Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro at the time, failed to complete real-world office tasks 70 percent of the time.”
And here are Emily’s remarks for good measure: Six Myths and Six Truths about EdTech.
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
And here are Emily’s remarks for good measure: Six Myths and Six Truths about EdTech.
She shared Julie’s, too!
A must-read essay by Julie Liddell of the EdTech Law Center about the harms caused to children on school-issued tech.
If you are at all concerned about social media harms, you should be equally concerned about EdTech.
open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
If you are at all concerned about social media harms, you should be equally concerned about EdTech.
open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
Neither Essential nor Safe: Predators and Porn on School-Issued Laptops.
Real-world harms caused by giving children internet-connected devices "for education."
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
She shared Julie’s, too!
Julie and I joined @emilycherkin.bsky.social in London over the Thanksgiving holiday to speak to Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords about edtech.
Emily was kind enough to share my remarks!
Emily was kind enough to share my remarks!
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Julie and I joined @emilycherkin.bsky.social in London over the Thanksgiving holiday to speak to Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords about edtech.
Emily was kind enough to share my remarks!
Emily was kind enough to share my remarks!
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A must-read essay by Julie Liddell of the EdTech Law Center about the harms caused to children on school-issued tech.
If you are at all concerned about social media harms, you should be equally concerned about EdTech.
open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
If you are at all concerned about social media harms, you should be equally concerned about EdTech.
open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
Neither Essential nor Safe: Predators and Porn on School-Issued Laptops.
Real-world harms caused by giving children internet-connected devices "for education."
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A must-read essay by Julie Liddell of the EdTech Law Center about the harms caused to children on school-issued tech.
If you are at all concerned about social media harms, you should be equally concerned about EdTech.
open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
If you are at all concerned about social media harms, you should be equally concerned about EdTech.
open.substack.com/pub/firstfis...
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“it’s really important for families to have, to be inspired to learn about a citizen’s duty to keep a democracy alive and strong. Democracy is not a spectator sport. You have to, as a citizen, be a part of creating the conditions that allow liberty to thrive, you know? So, I wrote ABC Democracy…”
Children’s entertainer Raffi releases new single in response to ‘rise of fascism’
Raffi on democracy, 'rise of fascism,' 'tough times'
For decades, the man who has been called the most influential children’s entertainer in the English-speaking world has created and performed music that parents today are sharing with their own children.
www.cp24.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“it’s really important for families to have, to be inspired to learn about a citizen’s duty to keep a democracy alive and strong. Democracy is not a spectator sport. You have to, as a citizen, be a part of creating the conditions that allow liberty to thrive, you know? So, I wrote ABC Democracy…”
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especially when Open AI already knows about major mental health problems bsky.app/profile/loui...
We’re about to live through a big cause/effect obfuscation where OpenAI will claim all these cases are just preexisting conditions coming into contact with their product, and not caused FROM interacting with their product. but I want to reemphasize the problem scope here
bsky.app/profile/cout...
bsky.app/profile/cout...
NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
especially when Open AI already knows about major mental health problems bsky.app/profile/loui...
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although I'm a researcher, there are times “we need to take several years to study this” is a delay tactic…
how about “we need to take several years to study this” *while your product is not out in the world and constantly being tweaked to maximize usage and simulate progress!*
how about “we need to take several years to study this” *while your product is not out in the world and constantly being tweaked to maximize usage and simulate progress!*
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
although I'm a researcher, there are times “we need to take several years to study this” is a delay tactic…
how about “we need to take several years to study this” *while your product is not out in the world and constantly being tweaked to maximize usage and simulate progress!*
how about “we need to take several years to study this” *while your product is not out in the world and constantly being tweaked to maximize usage and simulate progress!*
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ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.
Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.