Libraries worldwide are exploring or ramping up their use of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by Clarivate, a global information services company.

This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I’m standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into full-time hosting duties. Today, we’ve got a fun one. I’m talking to Cory Doctorow, prolific author, internet activist, and arguably one of the fiercest tech critics writing today. He has a new book out called Enshittifcation: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. So I sat down with Cory to discuss what enshittification is, why it’s happening, and how we might fight it. Links: Enshittification | Macmillan Why every website you used to love is getting worse | Vox The age of Enshittification | The New Yorker Yes, everything online sucks now — but it doesn’t have to | Ars Technica The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals vast, deadly rot | Cory Doctorow Mark Zuckerberg emails outline plan to neutralize competitors | The Verge Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in antitrust case | The Verge How Amazon wins: by steamrolling rivals and…

Are we using Gen Z as our AI guinea pigs? 🐷In this first episode of our five-part Life With Machines x @YoungFutures series, Baratunde Thurston explores how...

Students – and all manner of professionals – are tempted to outsource their thinking to AI, which threatens to undermine learning and credibility. A philosophy professor offers a solution.

In January 2024, I asked an auditorium full of community college instructors to tell me which stage of grief resonated most when they thought about their relationship with AI. Here's what they said: 7%: Denial - AI is overrated. I'll just wait it out. 15%: Anger - AI is running amok and undermines critical thinking. 38%: Bargaining - I'd learn more about AI if I wasn't so darn busy. 3%: Depression - What I love about teaching is slipping away. 38%: Acceptance - I'm ready! Where's my AI teaching assistant? How do you think the results would shift if you posed this question to faculty today? Do you think your colleagues are feeling significantly *more* or *less* optimistic about AI than they were a year or two ago? If so, why? #facultydevelopment #ai #edtech

Meaningful relationships are about giving, not only receiving.

Colleges are experimenting with making online teaching videos featuring AI avatar versions of professors. Some students find the simulated likenesses of their instructors a bit creepy, but proponents say the technology could be key to making college courses more active and human. The idea is that AI will make it easy to make personalized teaching videos so that more teachers can adopt a “flipped classroom” approach — where students watch video lecturers as homework so class time is spent on discussion or projects.

In this video we show, for what feels like the hundredth time, that AI Overview is a product that should be taken off the market but that AI Mode is fairly r...

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and businesses engage and u…

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

It’s one of the largest investment booms in the post-war era.

I've been thinking about Alpha School and yet another article - this time it's "Parents Fell in Love with Alpha School's Promise. Then They Wanted Out" by Todd Feathers published today in Wired at https://lnkd.in/gNCAx47s - detailing the school leaders' saviorism and their vision of education as a dystopian surveillance hellscape. What other visions of education should we pursue with teachers, students, and caregivers? A few years ago, I read, "Impossible Dreaming: On Speculative Education Fiction and Hopeful Learning Futures" by Shandell Houlden and George Veletsianos. They challenge speculative education researchers to shift focus away from apocalyptic futures and instead engage students in hope because "Imagining these hopeful education futures is necessary, to avoid reinforcing structures of injustice and inequality such as settler colonialism and to invite more radical imagination into our work as a means to seed the worlds we want to create and live in." You can read their excellent article at: https://lnkd.in/gKUGVjzc I took inspiration from Houlden and Veletsianos for one of my dissertation studies. I challenged a group of high school students to design a speculative educational technology for collective thriving at their school. We discussed how Mariame Kaba, Ruha Benjamin, Seamus Heaney, and others conceive of hope. We watched sava saheli singhs' short film on speculative ed-tech #tresdancing. (Watch and teach the film at: https://lnkd.in/gNiCNXHJ). We prototyped, provided feedback, and revised. What emerged were projects that align with previous research findings that students often reproduce existing hierarchies in their speculative technologies - and powerful possibilities for civic action in the here and now grounded in community and justice. Anyway, I reject Alpha School and its profiteering, dehumanizing education. Instead, I'll be working with teachers, students, and caregivers to imagine - and enact - otherwises "as a means to seed the worlds we want to create and live in."

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We spot a new Google Lens "questions about this content" feature in the wild and muck around a bit with it, unsure how much it really improves things.

I investigate using the foundational question "Is this what people think it is?" as a follow-up -- and get strikingly good results. For people needing quick,...

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Comprehensive review of top AI mobile apps for iOS & Android. Learn which features excel in each app, plus discover fully private alternatives that run offline

I usually encourage people to jump straight to AI Mode, but you don't have to be an absolute robot about it. In this example we get such a great set of sourc...

On this week’s episode, kids discuss ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it taking our jobs?? WILL IT REPLACE OUR CHILDREN?! These kids give u...

The euphoria is drawing comparisons to the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s and the 2008 financial crisis.

Today, I facilitated two virtual discussion-based sessions entitled, "A Values-Driven Approach to AI Integration." We used Carter Moulton, Ph.D.'s Analog Inspiration card deck as the basis for discussion. I wanted to share my plans in case they may be helpful to anyone else who is planning to use the deck virtually. 1. I administered a pre-session poll, where I invited instructors to share three of their core values. I used their responses to generate a word cloud, which I displayed at the start of the session. Instructors reviewed the word cloud and shared any core values they wished to add to the list in the chat. I then connected this activity of naming our values to a quote from Dr. Sunita Sah's book, Defy, about how "our values can guide us." 2. I provided a quick overview of the Analog Inspiration card deck and the different types of cards it contains (instructor-facing and student-facing). I also shared some group agreements to guide our discussion. 3. We did two rounds of small-group discussions in breakout rooms. Round 1 focused on instructor-facing cards, and round 2 focused on student-facing cards. For each round, instructors used a Padlet Sandbox and a Google Doc for the card exploration and discussion process. Here's how that worked: 3A. I created an interactive Padlet Sandbox for each round that contained links to four sets of cards. Instructors chose one set of cards to explore with their group, and they clicked on the individual cards within the set to view them up close. 3B. Instructors discussed the cards in the set using an adapted version of the Four A's Text Protocol from the Center for Leadership and Educational Equity. The questions included: What do you AGREE with on the cards? What do you want to ARGUE with (i.e., critiques)? Which ideas do you want to ACT upon? What new ideas would you ADD to the cards? The Google Doc contained space for instructors to capture their thoughts about the Four A's as they talked. 4. Following the two rounds of small group discussions, we debriefed as a whole group. I also shared three additional cards from the deck as food for thought (Trust, Discernment, and Rest). 5. We closed the session with a reflection technique I learned about from Chad Littlefield called Group Anthem. Instructors chose one of these sentence starters to complete in the chat or by unmuting: I am..., I believe..., or I will.... The sessions went well, and we had some really fruitful discussions! #HigherEd #FacDev #EdDev #FacultyDevelopment #EducationalDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment #ProfessionalLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AnalogInspiration #GenAI #AI

And we're all up for sacrifice.

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

Taki Allen was sitting outside Kenwood High School with friends, eating a bag of chips after football practice on Monday. Around 20 minutes later, cops showed up with guns, walking toward Allen. "They made me get on my knees, put my hands behind my back and cuff me. Then, they searched me and they figured out I had nothing," said Taki Allen. "Then, they went over to where I was standing and found a bag of chips on the floor."