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ChatGPT Thinks it is not Ethical! What do you Think?

Is ChatGPT ethical and legal?

Transcript ChatGPT Ethics Interview[00:00:00] David: Is what ChatGPT GPT3 and OpenAI doing, ethical and legal? Hi, I’m David Wilkinson. I’m the editor and founder of The Oxford Review, and this is a really important question, particularly if this technology is going to continue. We just need to ask ourselves where are the documents that it’s […]

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#AI #artificial intelligence #ChatGPT

Not evidence-based: Finding evidence to support your argument does not make an evidence-based argument

Not evidence-based

The unidirectional argument is not evidence-based There are a lot of blogs, articles and books that at first sight appear to be evidence-based. They are entertaining, interesting and makes sense. Some call it evidence-based writing. It is not evidence-based and here’s why… As editor of The Oxford Review I read a lot. A lot of […]

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#cherry-picking #confirmation bias #evidence based #evidence suppression #not evidence based #reference mining

Making organisations more effective: The problem of academic – practitioner distance

Academic - Practitioner Distance

There is no doubt that our universities conduct valuable and useful research that can help organisations become much more effective. In fact they produce lots of useful research that organisations could use. As the call more more evidence based practice increases, and with good reason, a rather large problem arises. Hardly anyone outside of academia has access to the […]

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#Academic #evidence based practice problem #evidence-based practice #Pactitioner

The Oxford Review Guide to Critical Thinking: What is it and how to develop it…

Critical Thinking

What is critical thinking and how do you develop it?      If you have had the privilege of going to university you will have been extolled to engage in critical thinking. Many organisations have critical thinking in their competency frameworks and it is a phrase banded about a lot in professional circles. But what […]

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#critical thinking #thinking

At what point can you say you have learned something?

Learned

“I learned something today…” Did you really? Like really learned it? We often take the idea of learning and having learned for granted and frequently make a series of rather large and unquestioned assumptions about at what point we can actually say someone has learned something. The evaluation of learning in many organisations, including our universities […]

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#learning #learning and development #organisational learning

Authentic Leadership and Being Authentic – What does that mean anyway?

Being authentic

Being authentic The leadership, management and personal development literature and lore is repleat with appeals and even demands for authenticity. Management and leadership courses, consultants and coaches extol the virtues of how to be authentic and genuine. It sounds good but what are we really asking for here? What do we actually mean by being […]

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#Authentic #Being authentic #Leadership #Leadership Development #Management #management development

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