Research

In order to make progress against poverty in the future, we need to understand poverty around the world today and how it has changed.

Exploring the phenomenon of 'brain rot' in large language models and its implications for AI cognition.

AI In Education Statistics - The leading AI apps for students globally are ChatGPT (66%), Grammarly (25%), and Microsoft Copilot (25%).

In the future, education systems should nurture a broader range of capabilities, help restore meaning to young people's lives and equip them with the skills and ambition to remake our societies, economies and organisations. To flourish over a lifetime, people will need to be adaptive problem solvers, ethically competent and able to understand, appreciate and act in the world. In the age of AI, education must strengthen human agency, human meaning and human security.Since 2020, the OECD has developing far-reaching ideas on the future purposes of education, based on policy dialogues with seven high performing PISA systems. The Human Capital model, which has shaped what students learn for many decades, prepares young people for yesterday's jobs, through cognitive examinations. Education for Human Flourishing will equip young people for lives of purpose and fulfilment.The framework is helping shape the international conversation about the future of education. It is a vital ingredient in the development of PISA and a contribution to national policymaking, for countries wishing to reorient education purposes, policies and practices. It will be of interest to ministers, officials, students, teachers, school leaders, researchers and education innovators.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Meta AI fail to respond to teens' mental health needs.

Together with Apollo Research, we developed evaluations for hidden misalignment (“scheming”) and found behaviors consistent with scheming in controlled tests across frontier models. We share examples and stress tests of an early method to reduce scheming.

Are We Approaching A Turing Test for Teaching?

This piece is a follow-up to this blog, published last year. AI is present in classrooms more than ever before, partly due to tech companies’ provision of professional learning for teachers and partly due to school districts’ large-scale purchases of AI software. Beyond helping educators save time and enhance student learning, AI has also given

AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article content generated by AI.

Research on 74,000 educator conversations shows how faculty use Claude for teaching, research, and building interactive learning tools.

We’re introducing GDPval, a new evaluation that measures model performance on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations.

A methodology for measuring the energy, emissions, and water impact of Gemini prompts shines a light on the environmental impact of AI inference.

Survival depends on more than luck, from where it starts, to what it does, to when it’s born....

A study conducted at the University of Chicago found AI detection tools varied widely in quality, and proposes a framework for use both inside and outside of education.

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

A destructive A.I., like a nuclear bomb, is now a concrete possibility; the question is whether anyone will be reckless enough to build one.

It's not just students, more professors are using AI in the classroom. But they say more guidance is needed on how to use the technology.

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.

This anthology explores the philosophical, ethical and pedagogical dilemmas posed by disruptive influence of AI in education. Bringing together insights from global thinkers, leaders and changemakers, the collection challenges assumptions, surfaces frictions, provokes contestation, and sparks audacious new visions for equitable human-machine co-creation.

Logistics made it difficult to deliver the amount of tutoring that could produce a real difference

There is a growing divide among those who use AI and those who do not.

ChatGPT prompted teens to harmful acts, a study reveals.

As AI use grows in classrooms, parents and educators are split. Here's what to know about ChatGPT's role in learning—and how to guide kids through it.

From research excellence to real-world impact: building a human-centered AI future.

Discover how Switzerland can lead the way in transforming education with artificial intelligence. From foundational AI literacy to human-AI co-thinking, explore key insights, strategies, and tools to help educators, students, and institutions embrace this shift responsibly and effectively.

What is 2x learning, really?

By Benjamin Leiva, Chris Agnew, and Susanna Loeb This is the first of a series of research briefs aimed at understanding how people use AI-powered educational tools. Since the release of user-facing generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT in 2022, AI adoption has quickly permeated