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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · 6d

I'm reading a preprint and put a new Lord Of The Isles record to play in the background. I didn't expect the second track to match the situation so perfectly:

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ArXiv Mirage

YouTube video by Lord Of The Isles - Topic

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Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity, and Policy @accountabilityair.bsky.social · Sep 2

📝 Latest Publication Alert! 📝

"AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues"

Daniel Crean, Michał Wieczorek, Bert Gordijn & Alan J. Kearns

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

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AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues

Guided by Brey’s Anticipatory Technology Ethics, we examined AI-based research mentors (AIRMs) through technology foresight as well as identification and evaluation of ethical issues. Scenario plan...

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today was my first day as an assistant professor at @ucddublin.bsky.social. I look forward to working with my new colleagues at the School of Education.

You can watch the actual, unedited footage of my first day at the office here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj4j...

Dwight Schrute Becomes Assistant Regional Manager - The Office US

YouTube video by The Office

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Aug 29

In this new paper led by Danny Crean and with contributions by me, Alan Kearns and Bert Gordijn, we use anticipatory methods to explore how GenAI tools are likely to affect research mentorship, research integrity and research culture.

Have a read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AI-based research mentors: Plausible scenarios and ethical issues

Guided by Brey’s Anticipatory Technology Ethics, we examined AI-based research mentors (AIRMs) through technology foresight as well as identification and evaluation of ethical issues. Scenario plan...

www.tandfonline.com

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · Jun 28

Last day of #SPT2025 and I am SO excited to start the day with a Dewey panel because philosophers of technology need more Dewey!

Slide opening the Dewey and Philosophy of Technology panel at SPT

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Jun 27

If you are around Nijmegen next week, consider coming to my talk at iHub, Radboud University. It has a very modest aim: discuss everything that's wrong with educational AI.

Thanks to Tamar Sharon for giving me this chance to collect all the ideas I have been exploring the past few years.

iHub – What's wrong with educational AI? A philosophical and pedagogical critique by Michal Wieczorek

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our literature review on the ethics of using AI in schools is now available in open access in AI & Ethics. It should provide a comprehensive entry point for folks interested in the ethical dimension of educational AI.

Thanks to my wonderful coauthors @mhmdhsini.bsky.social and Bert Gordijn.

Unpacking the ethics of using AI in primary and secondary education: a systematic literature review - AI and Ethics

This paper provides a systematic review of the literature discussing the ethics of using artificial intelligence in primary and secondary education (AIPSED). Although recent advances in AI have led to...

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Jun 23

This Saturday at the Society for Philosophy and Technology conference, I will moderate a symposium on Dewey's philosophy of technology which includes talks by four excellent scholars: Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann, @coeckelbergh.bsky.social, Ibo van de Poel and @olyakudina.bsky.social. Come join us!

Capture from the SPT2025 program, describing the symposium. See: https://www.conftool.pro/spt2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=121

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thank you and please do! I partly wrote this paper to have something for my own discussions with teachers and students but I would be even happier if others use it as well.

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Jun 12

I have a new article out in Learning, Media & Technology. Using scenario planning, I sketch out four scenarios for the deployment of AI in schools, highlighting that the futures that the futures of educational AI are morally ambiguous, unlike the binary claims made by AI boosters and AI doomsters.

Using ethical scenarios to explore the future of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary education

The ethics of educational artificial intelligence (AIED) has become a prominent topic of debate in recent years. However, many prospective AIED tools are still under development and may change befo...

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks for sharing @coeckelbergh.bsky.social! Our research interests intersect once again, I wrote this book chapter a few years ago: brill.com/display/book...

Let me know if you'd like a copy. We share many ideas but go in slightly different directions.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Apr 25

Why AI will not Democratize Education: a Critical Pragmatist Perspective link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why AI will not Democratize Education: a Critical Pragmatist Perspective - Philosophy & Technology

This paper builds on Dewey’s philosophy of education to argue that AI, at least in its current commercial form, is likely to have a negative impact on democratic education. AI and other digital techno...

link.springer.com

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thank you for this highlight!

Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thanks for the shoutout!

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Apr 22

"[T]here are good reasons to believe that by individualising learning, focusing on mastery, automating teachers’ tasks and increasing the influence of private companies, [AI] will have a negative impact on the democratic dimension of education," writes Michał Wieczorek.

Why AI will not Democratize Education: a Critical Pragmatist Perspective - Philosophy & Technology

This paper builds on Dewey’s philosophy of education to argue that AI, at least in its current commercial form, is likely to have a negative impact on democratic education. AI and other digital techno...

link.springer.com

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Apr 22

Have you seen all the promises that AI will make education more democratic? Have you always been a little sceptical of them but couldn’t say exactly why? Try my new paper in which I discuss the mismatch between the goals and values of democratic education, and contemporary educational AI tools.

Why AI will not Democratize Education: a Critical Pragmatist Perspective - Philosophy & Technology

This paper builds on Dewey’s philosophy of education to argue that AI, at least in its current commercial form, is likely to have a negative impact on democratic education. AI and other digital techno...

link.springer.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Mar 5

If you’ve got $20,000 a month to spend on a “PhD level” ai agent, just hire a person.

OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI 'agents' | TechCrunch

OpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI 'agents,' according to The Information.

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Nov 22

Our AI Literacy Training in the Classroom Online Course for teachers is now live with some great insights on AI and AI ethics tailored specifically to educational contexts.

Also, check the website for details on workshops in Ireland early next year (including my talk on AI ethics for teachers).

Online Course - AI in the Classroom

Now, explore our 90-minute AI Literacy course for post-primary educators that you can do in your own time.At the core of AI Literacy in the Classroom are

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Nov 13

A year deeper into this, and this still seems utterly perfect

Christoph Niemann @christophniemann.bsky.social · Nov 13

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker
more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

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Michał Wieczorek @michalwieczorek.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm in the @irishtimes.bsky.social today, writing with @eam0.bsky.social about educational AI and why it won't work (if it's going to work at all!) so well in multilingual educational systems, like the one in Ireland.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

AI tools could revolutionise education but leave Gaelscoileanna behind

Irish-language schools may be faced with an impossible choice: embrace second-rate AI or forgo the potential benefits of automation

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · Jul 5

yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 13

Being “ai” free is already becoming a selling point.

Excuse Me, Is There AI in That?

Businesses and creators see a new opportunity to brand their work as 100 percent human-made.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 3

They keep pitching this, but it never gets more coherent or makes more sense. Logistics and capabilities aside, companies aren’t sinking money into these things so you can spend more time with your family (unless that’s achieved by firing you).

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 3

“…one of the big benefits of AI at work will be letting us all create something he calls a ‘digital twin’ — essentially a deepfake avatar of yourself that can go to Zoom meetings on your behalf and even make decisions for you while you spend your time on more important things, like your family.”

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings

Why have fewer meetings when you could just send your AI clone instead?

www.theverge.com

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Jun 2

This feels like one of deadliest flaws in Khan's sales pitch: his "treatment of teaching is insulting as much as anything. He claims to want to provide technology to teachers and schools that will help them without bothering to understand what teachers do or how teaching works."

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · Jun 2

If we're truly looking at a revolution in education we deserve an ore serious book than what Sal Khan delivers in "Brave New Words." open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

An Unserious Book

Sal Khan brings an infomercial to a (supposed) revolution with "Brave New Words."

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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · May 22

Highly paid developers with huge amounts of private capital produced this. Ordinary people working for nothing more than the common good produced Wikipedia.

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