Why does it say on the graph that inside “Europe and Central Asia” the most popular destination is “the USA 17%” followed by the UK and Germany? 🤔

Academics are already overworked and asked to perform specialised work of various sorts on top of teaching and research. So, get them proper training tailored to their specific needs and buy them a subscription to the proper AI-tools. Same for students. Or hire me! I’m an unemployed historian.

To be fair, I don’t want to blame anyone in particular, except the institutions that ask their employees to adopt the use of AI-tools and incorporate them in their work (here teaching and research), but do not offer any training and let them on their own to learn how to use them outside work hours.

My guess is a daily positive self-affirmation: “We’re safe from AI”… the same way some deny climate change as an overhyped hoax. It feels safer to say “I looked outside and it was cold and rainy, ergo global warming is overhyped, we’re safe, let’s continue as before”.

6. So, why are people still publishing these kinds of “I asked AI…” posts that are only embarrassingly broadcasting their ignorance of AI and lack of the most fundamental skills in 2025 that is prompting?

5. Why are the prompts used for this deep piece of scholarly enquiry not shared? Or were they? “Copilot then suggested”, “I asked Copilot to prepare a publication “…? Again, it’s undermining any credibility by showing ignorance of basic proper use of an LLM through prompting.

4. Of all the options, the choice is set on Copilot… Interesting choice. Why this one? Because it’s the only one that comes paid by the institution one works for as part of Office? Why on earth would one of the top universities in the world choose ChatGPT for its employees and students instead?

3. Only one AI-tool was used. So, how does that imply a general conclusion for all the other available options? This shows a lack of basic understanding of LLMs and how they vary depending on the training they received.

2. It’s best to shorten with “AI-tools” rather than “AI”. And like any tool, you have to build skills to use it properly, by understanding what it can do through rigorous, repeated and focused practice. It’s already undermining credibility to talk improperly about “AI”.

1. AI stands for artificial intelligence, which doesn’t mean an actual entity artificially constructed that has intelligence. It is a field of study. You may as well brandish a pencil and shout “I asked Fine Arts to draw the Vitruvian man and all I got was this lousy stick figure in a circle”.

And if that's not enough for you, then later the same day,
2) 'Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health' roundtable on 2 new books: Tillmann Taape's 'Crafting Medicine' & Jack Hartnell's 'Wound Man' (free, online CHSTM #histmed working group, also meeting 10 Oct & 14 Nov): www.chstm.org/group/object...