Jon Jackson
@iamjonjackson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Programme Director at qmul.ac.uk; Co-founder at medilingo.co.uk; SpongeBob fan; also coffee 😬 Higher Education | AI Ethics | AI in Education | GenAI linkedin.com/in/iamjonjackson open.substack.com/pub/jonathanmjackson
So so stoopid Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations - www.reuters.com/business/med...
Alphabet rolls back AI image generation in Google Earth over policy violations
Alphabet's Google said on Friday it was rolling back an AI image-generation feature it had introduced in Google Earth just a day ago, after users shared images that appeared to violate the company's...
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Today was graduation day. A happy day! Proud of my students and colleagues 🙌
Of late, I keep burning through GitHub Copilot’s monthly allowance way too quickly with some agentic coding. Monthly allowances suck because you have to wait potentially weeks for it to reset and in the meantime it switches to metered billing…
Sprint week on campus last week at Queen Mary University of London 🙌
#degreeapprenticeships | Jon Jackson
Sprint week on campus last week at Queen Mary University of London 🙌 An intensive week of experiential, project-based learning, with live presentation activities nearer the end of the week for our fi...
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Generative AI has a lot of horrible use cases (don’t get me started), but some are very compelling…
#genai #highereducation #aied | Jon Jackson
Generative AI has a lot of horrible use cases (don’t get me started), but some are very compelling. Using a mix of Claude, Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot I built out a fully interactive website...
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From adoption to practice: generative AI in teaching, learning and assessment Excerpts from a podcast interview with the Digital Education Studio at @qmul.bsky.social #GenAI #AIEd #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
A non-exhaustive list of references and reading informing my current work on AI and Assessment at a UK university… What would you add?
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A non-exhaustive list of references and reading informing my current work on AI and Assessment at a UK university… What would you add? Corbin, T. et al. (2025) ‘The wicked problem of AI and asse...
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Microsoft Copilot “Agents” and Website Sources: A False Affordance in Knowledge Grounding…
Microsoft Copilot “Agents” and Website Sources: A False Affordance in Knowledge Grounding
In this article I sigh a lot
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I love how GitHub Copilot pricing changes were like: Hey look we’re giving you 10x the number of credits but oh wait each credit is worth 100x less than they were before, but try not to think about it keep on tokenmaxxing peasants 😎 Genius
I realised today that I had started using GitHub Copilot before ChatGPT was launched publicly. So I was using Genstative AI (for coding) before ChatGPT became mainstream. Hadn’t really realised this before…
There was a time in my life when I wrote a lot of short fiction (way before Large Language Models, I might add)…
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There was a time in my life when I wrote a lot of short fiction (way before Large Language Models, I might add). This is one short story I rediscovered which I thought had disappeared (argh!!) but th...
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Can Generative AI help students reflect more deeply? What’s your take? open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
I managed to listen to this podcast episode in the end. Not as great as I had hoped. I found it detached from the reality of most universities: having their own supercomputer data centre (!) and gaining funding to hire ~100 AI-focused academic staff across the institution (!!) #AcademicSky
Campus Talks: What does ‘AI across the curriculum’ look like in practice? | Campus Talks by Times Higher Education
We find out how one US institution has led the way in embedding AI across all its majors and what has been learnt in the process --- Many universities are now racing to embed AI literacy across their ...
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Can Generative AI help students reflect more deeply?
Can Generative AI help students reflect more deeply?
Yes, but…
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'… @404media.co #LLMs #GenAI
Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
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Posting this here to increase the chances (slightly, not much) of me actually listening to it timeshighered.podbean.com/e/campus-tal...
Campus Talks: What does ‘AI across the curriculum’ look like in practice? | Campus Talks by Times Higher Education
We find out how one US institution has led the way in embedding AI across all its majors and what has been learnt in the process --- Many universities are now racing to embed AI literacy across their ...
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Really enjoyed facilitating a roundtable discussion a couple of weeks back with my buddy Amiirah from the QMUL Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE). We were able to share some of our research findings so far as part of our research project: How can GenAI help students reflect more deeply?
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today… “Anthropic is bringing its most powerful AI model to the general public for the first time, but it’s doing it with guardrails.” Very expensive, very brute force, very capable (apparently)
Anthropic releases Claude Fable, a version of Mythos, days after warning AI is becoming too dangerous
Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.
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Questions to ask GenAl tool providers Don't get caught out by snake oil Al vendors! open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
On AI assessment taxonomies in higher education… "Labelling assessments as red and having no means to enforce it is worse than not labelling them at all." open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Updated my consulting site with some of my scholarly work. I’m still very “early career” (and no I don’t even have a PhD) but it’s nice to have some decent peer reviewed papers out now, with some gaining a bit of traction and citations 🙌 acuras.co.uk/scholarly-wo... #AcademicSky
Scholarly work - Acuras Ltd
A selection of Jon’s scholarly work Macaulay, E., Jackson, J., White, C., Bevan, A., (2026). Using degree apprenticeships to shape the future of traditional undergraduate degrees. Higher Education, Sk...
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OpenAI plots biggest ChatGPT overhaul since launch Gift link 👇
OpenAI plots biggest ChatGPT overhaul since launch
$850bn start-up to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO
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Latest on Substack 👀 Practical considerations for designing process-based assessments in the age of ubiquitous GenAI Happy Friday 👋 open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Questions to ask GenAl tool providers Don't get caught out by snake oil Al vendors
Questions to ask GenAI tool providers
Don’t get caught out by snake oil AI vendors
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Updates on my experiments are on Substack 👀 substack.com/@jonathanmja...
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An update on the “embedded GenAI prompts in assessment briefs” idea… Carried out a trivial experiment with a sample .docx assessment brief and it kind of works, although Copilot goes off on one (not ...
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Jon Jackson@iamjonjackson.bsky.social · 3mo agoHas anyone tried the idea of including visible GenAI instructions in assessment briefs so that if students want to upload the brief to a chatbot, it’ll be guided by certain pedagogically beneficial instructions? [1/5]
