AI implications for education

An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems.

Public discourse around AI has gone beyond what its technical specifications warrant, limiting the space for democratic engagement and control.

The power of AI to parse public responses or draft legislation is recognized worldwide. But how should lawmakers and leaders use the tech?

AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...

Britain is losing more jobs than it creates owing to artificial intelligence, Morgan Stanley research suggests

Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We address them.

Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

The trick is to view AI as simply a tool to aid you in the creative process, rather than a comprehensive solution.

Recent advances in natural language generation (NLG), such as public accessibility to ChatGPT, have sparked polarised debates about the societal impact of this technology. Popular discourse tends towards either overoptimistic hype that touts the radically transformative potentials of these systems or pessimistic critique of their technical limitations and general ‘stupidity’. Surprisingly, these debates have largely overlooked the exegetical capacities of these systems, which for many users seem to be producing meaningful texts. In this paper, we take an interdisciplinary approach that combines hermeneutics—the study of meaning and interpretation—with prompt engineering—task descriptions embedded in input to NLG systems—to study the extent to which a specific NLG system, ChatGPT, produces texts of hermeneutic value. We design prompts with the goal of optimising hermeneuticity rather than mere factual accuracy, and apply them in four different use cases combining humans and ChatGPT as readers and writers. In most cases, ChatGPT produces readable texts that respond clearly to our requests. However, increasing the specificity of prompts’ task descriptions leads to texts with intensified neutrality, indicating that ChatGPT’s optimisation for factual accuracy may actually be detrimental to the hermeneuticity of its output.

Janice Kay and Rachel Maxwell set out all the elements of a whole-institution AI strategy and the leadership capabilities required to make it real

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

Why is synthetic data used and what challenges does it raise for AI assurance mechanisms?

Studies show widespread errors in AI-generated work, as employers fail to train staff properly

Nature - Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

An essential conversation with journalist and author, Karen Hao, about OpenAI and its ambition to dominate and conquer all before it

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Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google

In the post-digital era where digital technologies are fully embedded in daily life, education must adapt to the rapid infusion of artificial intelligence (AI). This article explores a systems appr...

Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.

Counter-terrorism agencies are scrambling to maintain an advantage and thwart attacks as access to digital tools eases

The UK government announced a new project today that will enhance the ability of AI generative tools to learn from a new bank of lesson plans and curriculums.

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

Yoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the current trajectory of the technology. As AI models race toward full-blown agency, Bengio warns that they've already learned to deceive, cheat, self-preserve and slip out of our control. Drawing on his groundbreaking research, he reveals a bold plan to keep AI safe and ensure that human flourishing, not machines with unchecked power and autonomy, defines our future. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025) If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: https://ted.com/membership Follow TED! X: https://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ted Facebook: https://facebook.com/TED LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ted-conferences TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tedtoks The TED Talks channel features talks, performances and original series from the world's leading thinkers and doers. Subscribe to our channel for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit https://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Watch more: https://go.ted.com/yoshuabengio https://youtu.be/qe9QSCF-d88 TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy. For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com #TED #TEDTalks #Technology