GenAI Digest September 2025

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“ We need to rethink what is considered ‘original work’ in the age of AI and universities are a crucial site of that conversation. ”

— Meifang Zhuo, University of Warwick in MIT Technology Review

Tech: New tools are coming out but is the race to General Artificial Intelligence slowing down?

1. GPT5 is out: GPT-5 has Arrived  - while initial reports were underwhelming, people are warming to GPT-5 - but it is not a paradigm shift and hallucinations are still an issue!

2. Want to build a website but don’t know how, AI may be able to help: Lovable 

3. Tired of typing? Try out Typeless | AI Voice Dictation That's Actually Intelligent.

Opportunities for students!

1. Anthropic offers free course on AI Fluency for students designed in collaboration with  professors Rick Dakan from Ringling College of Art and Design and Joseph Feller from University College Cork.

2. MistralAI: French GenAI company offers a student discount - €5.99 per month for Le Chat (log in required).

3. Gray Swan Arena | Gray Swan AI - Get cash prizes to break AI!

AI use: Growing concern about the use of GenAI by children.

1. AI chatbots are the ‘go to’ for millions of children | Internet Matters survey of 1000 children and 2000 of their parents raised concerns about unchecked use of GenAI by children.

2. Understanding the impacts of generative AI use on children | The Alan Turing Institute and The LEGO group are working together to explore this vital topic.

Student use of AI and Academic Integrity: Can students use GenAI ethically, if AI detection is unreliable, do we really need some sort of watermarking to identify AI outputs?

1. Kings College London: What research tells us about student usage patterns

2. From Enthusiasm to Resistance: Framing the Institutional AI Response – HEducationist - Martin Compton KCL

3. Andy Nguyen and colleagues look at how GenAI is used differently by strong and weak students: Human-AI collaboration patterns in AI-assisted academic writing

4. Ruben Sailor or JISC asks: Detecting AI: Are watermarks the future?  - Artificial intelligence

5. Thomas Hipkin of Humber Polytechnic, Toronto Encouraging Students to Treat AI as a Writing Support Tool—Not an Idea Generator

Employability: Employability is a big subject of discussion with people concerned about the impact GenAI is having on the job market, especially for students. 

1. Podcast: AI and jobs, provider closure, UCAS figures | Wonkhe 

2. Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence)

3. TUC calls for “step change” in UK approach to AI as poll finds majority of public are concerned over jobs | TUC

4. Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic - measures how AI systems are being used across different economic tasks, giving a metric to predict where jobs may be effected by GenAI. 

International: Are there international differences in approaches to GenAI? If so, what are they shaped by?

1. Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less | MIT Technology Review - are Chinese universities taking a different approach to the West with genAI?

2. Report: AI in Education Report: Insights to support teaching and learning | Microsoft Education Blog 

3. The 2025 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI - A compass for navigating the impact of AI - interestingly reports significant optimism in Asia for GenAI vs pessimism in the West.