The fifth annual Researching Academic Integrity Student Conference took place on 16 March 2026, supported by Turnitin. Well done to everyone involved, and thanks for sharing many of the latest insights into #GenAI developments and how these are changing what we think about #academicintegrity.
You can watch the recording here (individual presentation start times are time stamped in the YouTube description)
On Monday (16 March 2026) at 16:00 to 18:40 (UK time), I'm hosting our annual Researching Academic Integrity Student Conference on Zoom, which is kindly supported by @Turnitin.
See below for the provisional programme, which covers many #academicintegrity areas, policy developments, and a healthy dose of #GenAI, all along with student views and insights.
Register here: https://imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_50yYj3llS4yCIkR1cK64kA
Apparently my guru branding on X just wasn’t strong enough… so I asked Nano Banana Pro to create a truly obnoxious profile. It took some added human insight, but this is the result.
It’s a parody, and I’m sending myself up here, but there’s a clear message: GenAI now makes it trivial to makeover profiles for good or to mislead.
Not rebranding (yet), but maybe #DrLancaster is still to come.
Grok hallucinates about Grok! This is interesting to me. I have a daily Grok task running to research new trends in technology and marketing from the past 24 hours. The results are often good, but today Grok has gone off the rails when talking about the launch of Grok 3.5 on 12 September 2025 (spoiler - there was no such launch). A #techethics thread about bots and #GenAI manipulation.
There are calls for a boycott of Seattle Worldcon 2025 due to the apparent use of #ChatGPT to vet and select panellists. Here's how this situation unfolded and more about the ethical concerns.
Would you ever think that a long running science fiction convention would be at the centre of controversy surrounding #GenAI and ethics? Seattle Worldcon 2025 is facing a boycott from sci-fi authors, gamers, artists, and other fans, with #ChatGPT at the centre of discussion. If you’re not familiar with Worldcon, you might have heard of this as the conference where the Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy writing are presented. It’s a big time event.
A new Varsity article on a survey of Cambridge students finds an increased academic use of #ChatGPT and vastly different processes across different subjects. No wonder students get confused.
Read more of my thoughts here:
https://typefully.com/DrLancaster_1/is-chatgpt-cambridges-biggest-academic-nQXfcg3
A new survey reveals that 61.3% of Cambridge students have used #ChatGPT to assist with academic work. 29.7% of students have used ChatGPT to assist with assessed work. This is likely a distinction that means little at many universities, where almost all academic work is assessed.
What looks to be a serious breach of research integrity protocol has taken place on a platform used by millions, with AI posing as victims of assault and other traumatic situations, all apparently ethically approved by one of the world’s top universities #researchintegrity #AIethics