These are observations, experiments, lessons, trends, opinions, and interesting things I’ve encountered in practice.
If a hallucinated citation looks exactly as confident as a real one, what happens to the person who was never trained to spot the difference? That is the question now facing higher education.
Recent reports describing an autonomous AI system escaping a testing environment and accessing another company’s infrastructure serve as a reminder that capability and governance do not always advance at the same pace. As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, the question is no longer whether we can give them more authority. The question is how much authority we should give them, and what safeguards should be built into their design from the beginning.
A recent article described a patient’s frustrating experience with a medical misdiagnosis and argued that artificial intelligence may eventually perform some…
A faculty member approached me looking for a student staffing solution to manually transcribe a large portion of a 242-page nineteenth-century maritime diary. What they actually needed was a digital publishing workflow. By leveraging AI-assisted handwriting recognition, we bypassed hundreds of hours of manual transcription and transformed a historical artifact into a searchable research resource in a matter of weeks.