Leon Furze
Author, consultant and PhD candidate
Helping educators understand the practical and ethical implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence
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What Happens to Expertise When Students Skip the Struggle?
When students use GenAI to skip the hard parts of learning, they miss the productive struggle that builds genuine expertise. This post explores why the “AI is just like a calculator” argument falls short, and why novices are most at risk of outsourcing the thinking that matters most.
Lived Experience Using AI as an AuDHD Adult
AI is often marketed as a game-changer for neurodivergent learners, but the reality is more complicated. As someone with a combined autism/ADHD diagnosis, I explore both the genuine risks of AI for ND users, including pathologising training data and addictive design patterns, and the personal, practical ways I actually use these tools: capturing ideas on…
Letting the Robots In
AI agents are increasingly browsing the web alongside humans, but most websites still serve them the same cluttered HTML designed for browsers. Here’s what I’ve done to make this site more readable for AI systems, why I think educators should care about being AI-accessible, and why the real problem isn’t scraping but the attribution gap…
Building Websites with Claude Code
Over the past couple of weekends I have built and published five complete websites and a complex interactive page for this site. I had the content already handy, but all of the work of making the websites, and a substantial amount of their deployment, was handled exclusively by Claude Cowork and Claude Code.
What is MCP and Why Should I Care?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standardised way for AI assistants to communicate with external data sources and tools. I spent a weekend building my own MCP servers to connect Claude to my private data, and learned a lot about where this technology is heading.
Teaching AI Ethics: New Book and Website
Today I’m launching two things: a new Open Access eBook and a dedicated website for the Teaching AI Ethics project. Read more on the blog.
Artefacts of the AI Resistance
From zines to silent protest records, the DIY resistance to AI is picking up steam. A personal look at the artefacts — handmade, rough-copied, and stubbornly human — pushing back against Big Tech.
Teaching AI Ethics 2026: Power
The final article in the updated ‘Teaching AI Ethics’ series explores how AI consolidates power in the hands of the wealthiest, most powerful companies in the world.