David Worlock

Is the best way to improve literacy through the use of AI as a personal tutor, or will AI remove literacy skills altogether? davidworlock.com.

AI everywhere all the time will change everything – but not in the way that we think. AI will bring change so radical that we will not realise how fundamental it is until it is over. davidworlock.com/2024/07/ai-cha…

Of all the things which AI may do to improve human society, its impact on education will be the biggest and most significant. davidworlock.com/2024/06/educat…

My DATA plus your data is their data! Is this what Apple Intelligence is really all about? davidworlock.com/2024/06/my-dat…

My first experiment in writing crime fiction ,No Telephone to Heaven is a Lagos murder cold case. Based on a real event , I have had to use fiction to solve the murder . But did I get it right? Available at marblehillpublishers.co.uk More at davidworlock.com/2024/05/no-tel…

Do users feel threatened by AI, which could undermine their creativity or take their jobs? The answer is simple: change the name! davidworlock.com/2024/05/ai-fin…

The man who really created Robert Maxwell’s success as a science publisher died on Sunday. davidworlock.com/2024/04/ivan-k…

@RickyPo Please be careful! When you make information expensive you make it so it cannot be criticised. I argued with his views on my blog and he cancelled my subscription to his newsletter!

Academic freedom in jeopardy at home, abroad restorationnewsmedia.com/articles/colum…

Is the revision of the Gates foundation open Access policy The Beginning Of The End for open access journals? davidworlock.com/2024/04/gates-…

Data provenance information is vital if we are to trust generative AI. Will the market self Regulate to create vital trust? davidworlock.com/2024/03/ai-and…

Do you worry about AI undermining copyright? or about the sources from which training DATA was scraped? Properly marking DATA to show its provenance would be a good start if we wish to ease those fears. davidworlock.com/2024/03/show-m…

@RickyPo You are lucky to be able to subscribe to the Journal of this outstanding advocate of freedom of thought and speech. When I criticised him in my blog, he cancelled my subscription!

Kent Anderson: A few updates and tidbits to kick Monday off right the-geyser.com/monday-houseke…

More important steps in the creation of a data driven, machine interoperable world of scholarly communications davidworlock.com/2022/05/ccc-jo…

@lisalibrarian Economics and social sciences are as strong as STM in data analytics. But the real point is that all articles are research narratives - human speak not machine to machine speak .

I read this and can only think how the distance between practices in STEM and HSS is growing ... which isn't so much a problem except if there is then one model for what good practices look like.

In scholarly communications we must now be turning to a world beyond articles and journals , a world of machine intelligence , research objects and interoperability . Here , in the Contech21 keynote , I try to describe some of this davidworlock.com/2021/11/after-…

The launch of The General Index earlier this month offers the next challenge to the paywall of subscription science journals . With OA , SciHub and now this , are journals publishers in a corner ? davidworlock.com/2021/10/the-ge…

@lisalibrarian How can anyone verify the results if the evidential data is withheld/detached /not deposited where it can be publicly accessed /not marked up for re-use / not machine to machine interoperable ?

Wouldn't it be great if this was the case? (Note: I don't think it's really possible that PR can verify results unless it is overhauled in such a radical way we wouldn't call it "review" any more.)

@lisalibrarian REALLY INTERESTING AND USEFUL . THANLS , LISA !

@dworlock You might be interested in this workshop I do on futures thinking. Example written up: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Everyone talks about the speed of change , yet our boards of directors lack the language and analytical framework needed to even begin a discussion of the Future . So lets think about Futures Literacy davidworlock.com/2021/10/is-you…

Boris conference speech unmatched in irrelevance to real issues since fellow Etonian Lord North lost the American colonies in the 1770s . What a country -250 years and no change in the litany of evasion and distraction !