Educator at UNSW, Words in Routledge books (2024), Southerly Journal, Colloquy Journal. Education Specialist in AI, PhD in Creative Writing, SFHEA, Trying to untangle the gordian knot aka artificial intelligence in higher education. Jamesbedford.com.auhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3mjkrnyh7ec2aI’ve just started writing a new series on AI for work. https://open.substack.com/pub/drjamesbedford/p/work-in-progress?r=17d689&utm_medium=ios15 Apr 2026 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkrnyh7ec2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3m7yayksmjk2rI was interviewed by @theatlantic.com recently to talk about AI and outsourcing thinking. My thoughts are in the article below. In the article I talk about the #noaidecember initiative launched by myself and Sandro Rybarik. Website: noaidecember.com Article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/people-outsourcing-their-thinking-ai/685093/14 Dec 2025 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7yayksmjk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lq7gqbqzc22sFull length keynote I delivered on Navigating AI: Potentials and Pitfalls at UNSWC (March 2025). Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYYn2Vxj4UE&t=2115s&ab_channel=jamesbedford28 May 2025 05:08 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq7gqbqzc22shttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lofdi42du22rGemini now uses your Google search history to provide specified results beyond just your regular Gemini conversations. Asked it "what do you know about me?" and it knew where I lived, what my interests were and what I'd searched recently in Google.05 May 2025 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lofdi42du22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lmqvlyihbc2zThe last thing I want is for us all to get stuck in an endless generative AI loop where AI does everything. This is not what I mean when I talk about using generative AI for research and writing. This is lowest common denominator stuff "AI Wheel of Death" by James Bedford (2025)14 Apr 2025 06:09 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmqvlyihbc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3ll6jddczbs2yWant to create an AI-guided learning module? Not sure what an AI-guided learning module is? Here's the prompt for our Generative AI Literacy Module (GAIL) released under CC BY-NC 4.0. You can adapt and make your own custom GPT from off these instructions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ChYg_mLocjp7kVg8LEKVsTeKTrl6pUblouUOzuJ5S14/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1rx5oed7cpfo25 Mar 2025 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll6jddczbs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lks2swhpzc2kDeep Seek CEO hires people with a humanities background to improve their tech. Anthropic are doing the same. The humanities can help lead this technology into the future and help ensure it is used for good. https://www.msn.com/en-in/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-ceo-backs-humanities-graduates-over-techies-says-ai-needs-creativity-over-coding/ar-AA1AXJAL20 Mar 2025 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lks2swhpzc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3ljyy4o5lr22lNice little AI book stack10 Mar 2025 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljyy4o5lr22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3ljvpf56aok2pDelivered a keynote today for UNSW college sharing thoughts around AI in education. Recently, I find myself talking a lot about the dangers of over-reliance, the decline of critical thinking, and how we might work to reduce the negative impacts that come with using AI tools regularly.08 Mar 2025 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljvpf56aok2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lj6qdk5hck26My recent article in @edutopia.org https://www.edutopia.org/article/downsides-using-ai-monthlong-break27 Feb 2025 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6qdk5hck26https://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lie6boutcs2vA great explainer article for those wondering about why data privacy matters when using LLMs. https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5353/large-language-models-and-data-protection17 Feb 2025 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lie6boutcs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lhhgfoococ2pDear educators, Your detailed course outline with 4-page assessment item instructions that students don’t read anyway make for very thorough prompts.05 Feb 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhhgfoococ2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lgunhmshyc2bOpenAI might sue DeepSeek for copyright infringement. https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6 https://media.tenor.com/gnx5lOoMb0UAAAAC/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%85.gif?hh=498&ww=49829 Jan 2025 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgunhmshyc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lgh6ycfjik22Soon an ‘AI student agent’ could complete an asynchronous online course autonomously. This isn’t just about using ChatGPT for essays; it’s about handling all course activities from logging into an LMS, and submitting assignments—all w.o any learner intervention https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/24 Jan 2025 00:59 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgh6ycfjik22https://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lgaxh3cm3k2yIf you haven’t tried already, go and try www.deepseek.com, a new LLM that is said to be on par with o1. It is free and open source. Select the ‘deep think’ option to see the chain of thought the model produces. The quality of outputs I’m getting are some of the best I’ve seen an LLM produce.21 Jan 2025 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgaxh3cm3k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lgamaeqmac2cWhen we talk about equity of access and GenAI let’s take a moment to consider this: students can freely access the world’s most powerful LLMs in their pockets (with/w.o internet) 24/7. The equity issue here is providing the support and education to use these tools responsibly.21 Jan 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgamaeqmac2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lfyvx5ma7s2fA free text book titled ‘Foundations of LLMs’ has been pre-released via arxiv. It seems accessible for beginners and covers basics to more advanced concepts. LINK TO NOTEBOOK LM: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/0e513… LINK TO TEXT: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.0922318 Jan 2025 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfyvx5ma7s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lezozpak5c2aMy annual office tidy. Ready for 2025.05 Jan 2025 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lezozpak5c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lebahx4gtc2aOnly a few days to go until I’m back on the tools. #noAIdecember has been incredibly revealing and I will share all of my insights in 2025. I will definitely be doing it each year from now on. Feel free to visit our website and consider doing the remaining challenges. noaidecember.com https://media.tenor.com/8aRbYm9RjyMAAAAC/leo-netflix-drone-leo.gif?hh=274&ww=49827 Dec 2024 05:19 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lebahx4gtc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lc75bgol2c2jHelp spread the word. Looking forward to staying off the AI tools for a month then writing about the experience. Join me for #noAIDecember Noaidecember.com https://Noaidecember.com30 Nov 2024 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc75bgol2c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lbobradd6s2iGenerative AI is not creative. LLMs are stochastic parrots producing algorithmic weasel words like a hive mind of magic eight-balls with quintillions of possibilities all capable of statistical alignment to somehow produce coherent responses that make sense to us.24 Nov 2024 05:31 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbobradd6s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lblvql3jvc2mGreat to see copies out in the wild. 🙏 [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Nov 2024 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lblvql3jvc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesbedford.bsky.social/post/3lb7xj2hzus26Study finds non-experts can’t tell the difference between AI and human poetry. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-118 Nov 2024 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:fmb47j4z6dd73pxj4o7c6of6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb7xj2hzus26