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Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
An X user posted that the easiest way to spot AI-generated text is the em dash. Teachers began returning student papers marked “em dash = ChatGPT” ↓
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
The background noise in open offices, in multiple experiments, decreases the ability to do analytical work, increase bugs in software, and decrease the ability to find bugs.
Open floor plans are just a bad idea for any solo work.
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
Wait, so the founder of Anthropic is "Amodei," as in "loves god"?
And he leads Anthropic, meaning "human-centered," which is being used in military strikes?
And the creator of ChatGPT is "Altman," as in "an alternative to humans"?
And he leads OpenAI, which is completely closed?
And then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that promised to do no evil?
And the whole global AI arms race is being driven by people who claimed to be worried about AGI taking over the world?
Either the universe is an extremely cliché writer, or has a brilliant sense of humor
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
Today AWS servers went down and so did the government One Login digital ID system
Millions of people were suddenly locked out of vital services just because all authentication now runs through one central system hosted on a single commercial cloud.
Could there be a clearer warning
This is not a theoretical risk.
This is what happens when all access to government services depends on a single provider and a single platform.
One outage and the whole country grinds to a halt
If AWS can crash and take out government logins nationwide.
What happens during a cyberattack?
What happens in a crisis?
What happens when there is just a technical glitch?
We are being told to put our trust our business our legal status and our most sensitive personal information into one digital basket
Today proves just how fragile and risky that model is.
Digital ID is not about convenience or security.
It is about centralising risk and making everyone more vulnerable to outages attacks and bureaucratic mistakes.
It only takes one outage to lock the country out.
#NoToDigitalID
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
This is exactly my problem. Tech arrives as an option and ends up as an obligation.
As an option, it is mostly benign. As an obligation, it is frequently exclusionary or just plain annoying. – at Sundridge, South East
I have an elderly friend who is in her 80s.
She lives in Cornwall.
Mary is very switched on but she struggles with new technology a bit - especially parking apps.
All she wants to do is put her car in a space for a couple of hours and pay.
She does not want to sign up for a new app.
She does not want to verify her device.
She does not want to save her credit card information.
She does not want to figure out why the app thinks she is in Devon and cannot geolocate the car park she is standing in.
She wants to take a few coins and put them in a machine and do her shopping/meet her friends. Now, she finds excuses not to meet friends or shop because she is so worried about the parking situation.
It is a disgrace that parking has become so discriminatory and this is just the start. When Digital ID is introduced, her whole world will feel like this.
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions ft.com/content/9251504e-c60e… via @jburnmurdoch
Clients regularly seek coaching with me because they feel distracted and it's impacting their success. This piece from @HarvardBiz is refreshingly honest about the challenge.
Focus is not a skill some people are born with—you can work to improve it with small changes to your workday. Here’s how. s.hbr.org/363xtlT
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
When elite universities uploaded all of their courses online for public consumption, we collectively realized that the limiting reagent for global intelligence is not access to information, it's motivation.
Our narrative review on coaching Gen Z out now in The Coaching Psychologist.
We discuss psychological flexibility, arousal reduction, exposure strategies, and cognitive-behavioural self-management as esp. useful processes. @DrDeanWilkinson @profnickhw
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We very much need a greater variety of validated measures for values work in coaching. So glad to see this great team publish this one.
A great start to 2025 with the publication of our Values Clarify Questionnaire with a great research team @DrShaneMcL @ACTually_Alyson @rosiependrous & Peter Oldham.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
#Values #morals #ACT #OpenAccess
If we really do want to create unity and reduce political fragmentation, this is important information.
Educators really need to get to grips with what AI can already do, in current public releases.
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
What percentage of students are you willing to falsely accuse of cheating with AI?
There is a trade-off between that and detection rates for AI. At a 10% false positive rate, detectors find 80% or less of AI content. At a 1% rate most find 60% or less.
Don’t trust AI detectors!
So many academics currently seem to believe that setting students a task to critique the output of LLMs is somehow a great way to ensure students are doing their own work.
As far as I can see, even the same LLM can critique its own output.
Am I missing something?
Enormous congratulations to @TimmyCartwrigh on a successful PhD viva today! Very well deserved.
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
Most people claim to value abstract ideals like truth, equality, and freedom, but what they really want are idealized ideals: a truth that confirms their hopes, an equality that excludes their opponents, and a freedom that frees them from the responsibility of true freedom.
A great many of society’s ills could be fixed if only we could insist politicians lead by example rather than by their words.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana, The Life of Reason)
Dr Lee Hulbert-Williams retweeted
Accepting the reality of our situation doesn’t mean tolerating it. It means we can see things clearly and choose how best to respond
It's not unusual to see empirical evidence that students prefer easier classes in which they learn less. So what does that mean for university league tables and the incentives they create?
“Tough math teachers get lower ratings from students, because students like them less. However, students get better grades with the tough teachers than with laxer teachers. Reason #167 why student evaluations of teaching aren’t particularly useful.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/i…
