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Derek Hunt

Faulty Liaison, Teaching, Learning & Technology

Technology translator and designer of digitally mediated learning at the University of Toronto.

Posts:

Oct 1

Interesting observations from the Economic Futures Symposium: "The productivity story looks simple. The cultural story is not." - Roles are shifting: engineers now see themselves as managers of AI agents - Mentorship is eroding: junior staff turn first to Claude for answers - Skills are in flux: p...Read more

Sep 23

AI Slop Fatigue and Analog Intelligence - https://marketoonist.com/2025/09/ai-slop-fatigue-and-analog-intelligence.html

Sep 16

“We must prepare students for a world where the question is not, ‘Can you use AI?’ But rather, ‘Can I trust your thinking without using AI?’” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-professors-experiment-as-ai-becomes-part-of-student-life/

Sep 12

✅ AI use is increasing and becoming a new mode for cheating but cheating numbers overall have been high well before Gen AI 🙊Students are sharing incidents of being incorrectly accused of using AI, leading to unexpected behaviors like using AI so it looks like they didn’t use AI (!) ❓There is stil...Read more

Sep 9

"Sycophancy" - a new term I learned today that describes one of the main things that bug me about ChatGPT / GenAI chatbots - "Sycophancy, in which chatbots agree with and excessively praise users" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html "Sycophantic Improv ...Read more