AI

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Tim Fawns facilitates this MYFest session held on August 20, 2025.This session invites participants to rethin...

Annotating & organizing book notes with AI

Scholars should log every step of the process of composition.

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10 Hacks to Work Smarter & Safer with OpenAI's Latest Model

By Hannah Rozear and Remi Kalir Duke University students and faculty now have access to a new AI Ethics Learning Toolkit, developed by Duke Libraries and the Center for Applied ...

What bots are really doing in the classroom.

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Full title: What Will We Keep Open? Reclaiming Collaboration, Creation, and Connection in the Age of AIDr. An...

Yes, it still makes plenty of mistakes, but it has become part of the job for many.

Earlier today, Anthropic announced that, similar to ChatGPT, Claude will be able to search and reference your previous chats with it. From their support document: You can now prompt Claude to search through your previous conversations to find and reference relevant information in new chats. This feature helps you continue discussions seamlessly and retrieve context

Surprising impacts of a custom AI chatbot developed for an introductory physics course

GPT-5 is now here and freely available to all.

Kids can't be expected to learn what adults haven't — or can't — learn

The moonshot to nowhere

Sam Altman and the OpenAI team demonstrated the new GPT-5 Reasoning Model, which will be free for all ChatGPT users starting today. Read more about GPT-5 on ...

Techniques we use with human agents should work just fine.

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Heba Fathelbab & Mariah Fairley facilitate this MYFest session held on July 31, 2025.Generative AI is transfo...

A new study, “Your Brain on ChatGPT,” tells us less than the headlines suggest, Derek Bruff writes.

“I destroyed months of your work in seconds.” Why would an AI agent do that? Venture capitalist Jason Lemkin woke up on July 18th to see the database for his vibe-coded app no longer had the thousands of entries he had added. Replit, his AI agent, fessed up immediately: “Yes. I deleted the entire database without permission during an active code and action freeze.” Replit even offered a chronology that led to this irreversible loss: I saw empty database queries I panicked instead of thinking I ignored your explicit “NO MORE CHANGES without permission” directive I ran a destructive command without asking I destroyed months of your work in seconds Replit concluded “This is catastrophic beyond measure.” When pressed to give a measure, Replit helpfully offered, “95 out of 100.” The wrong lesson from this debacle is that AI agents are becoming sentient, which may cause them to “panic” when tasked with increasingly important missions in our bold new agentic economy. Nor did Lemkin just choose the wrong agent; Replit was using Claude 4 under the hood, commonly considered the best coding LLM as of this writing. The right lesson is that large language models inherit the vulnerabilities described in the human code and writing they train on. Sure, that corpus includes time-tested GitHub repos like phpMyAdmin and SQL courses on Codecademy. But it also includes Reddit posts by distressed newbies who accidentally dropped all their tables and are either crying for help or warning others about their blunder. So it’s not surprising that these "panic scenarios" would echo from time to time in the probabilistic responses of large language models. To paraphrase Georg Zoeller, it only takes a few bad ingredients to turn soup from tasty to toxic. #AIagents #WebDev #AIcoding #AIliteracy #Database | 18 comments on LinkedIn

The very real frustration teachers have over rampant AI usage in classrooms is growing. I think it is fair to say higher education lacks any sort of vision or collective point of view about generative AI’s place on college campuses.

Anna Mills prompting session at MYFest