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Practical AI Strategies

Hi everyone,

Before we get into this week's blog post, a reminder that the waitlists for the Term 4 live, six-week intensive courses are now open.

Practical AI for Wellbeing Leaders

​https://leonfurze.com/wellbeing-leaders/: is a brand new course for wellbeing leaders, pastoral and year level coordinators, and school counsellors, covering the wellbeing risks of AI including youth mental health, social chatbots, and deepfakes.

Practical AI for Curriculum Leaders

​https://leonfurze.com/curric-leaders/: AI for curriculum design and assessment, for faculty leaders, assistant principals, and curriculum designers across K-12, higher education, and vocational and adult education. This popular course has run for the past few terms and drawn educators from Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Canada, Europe, and the US.

On the blog: Claude Hacked my Website (But it didn't go rogue)

Last weekend I had a surprising, eye-opening experience with Claude Code.

Face with a task I thought would be pretty simple, the AI model stacked a whole bunch of permissions, exploited a few security vulnerabilities, and went to great lengths to post a draft article to my website.

Most of the security issues were my own fault. Some were problems with the new "auto mode" in Claude Code. But unlike the media hype around these models, Claude didn't "go rogue", it was doing exactly what it was supposed to do.

Still, it left me a bit shook up, and I've written about the whole thing in detail this weekend on the blog:

Cheers,

Leon

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