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I had the privilege of moderating a discussion between Josh Eyler and Robert Cummings about the future of AI in education at the University of Mississippi’s recent AI Winter Institute for Teachers.

A 2025 King Holiday Observance Event. Featuring Dr. Bernice A. King (CEO of The King Center), hosted by Dr. Vonnetta L. West. An insightful, applicable conversation about how the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. can be used to understand and integrate AI with consciousness, compassion, and consideration for the common good. #AI #TechForGood #Youth #MLK #KingHoliday #MissionPossibleMLK #Nonviolence365

The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.

It's not ideal and I have a lot of questions.

My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact of data centers, the scarcity of water, the terrible losses they’re seeing. . . it makes the ‘abstract’ of the climate crisis very real.

Hanna talks to the creators of an AI project called Future You. She also has a conversation with a future version of herself. But the person she meets is not who she expected. Share understanding this holiday season. For less than $2 a week, give a year-long Atlantic subscription to someone special. They’ll get unlimited access to Atlantic journalism, including magazine issues, narrated articles, puzzles, and more. Give today at TheAtlantic.com/podgift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Artificial intelligence and promises about the tech are everywhere these days. But excitement about genuine advances can easily veer into hype, according to Arvind Narayanan, computer science professor at Princeton who along with PhD candidate Sayash Kapoor wrote the book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference.” He says even the term AI doesn’t always mean what you think.

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A Festive Guide on How to Use AI in Instructional Design in 2025

The 200 year-old company may soon go public on the back of AI-powered education products.

Experiments by Anthropic and Redwood Research show how Anthropic's model, Claude, is capable of strategic deceit

“You couldn’t have made this movie three years ago,” said Robert Zemeckis, the director of “Here.” The film stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and is based on a 2014 graphic novel that takes place in a single spot in the world over several centuries. The story mostly takes place in a suburban New Jersey living room. It skips back and forth through time, but focuses on a baby-boomer couple — played by Hanks and Wright — at various stages of their lives, from age 18 into their 80s. Before A.I. software, Zemeckis could have had multiple actors play each character, but the audience might have gotten lost trying to keep track. Conventional makeup could have taken a decade off Hanks, who is now 68, but not half a century. The issue with C.G.I. is time and money. Persuading us that we’re watching Hanks and Wright in their 20s would have required hundreds of visual effects artists, tens of millions of dollars and months of postproduction work. A.I. software, though, changed all that accounting.

A Beginner's Guide for College Faculty

By Lew Ludwig Baking, Decorating, or Planning: What Role Are Your Students Playing? Are your students learning to bake the cake? Are they learning to decorate the cake? Or are they acting as wedding planners so they can outsource the cake so they can focus on the other stuff? This analogy,

The push to integrate artificial intelligence — like large language models — in the workplace is hitting almost every industry these days. And that includes policing. Reporter James O’Donnell with MIT Technology Review got an inside look at the ways in which many departments are experimenting with the new technology when he visited the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference back in October. O’Donnell attended to see how artificial intelligence was being discussed. He said police are using or thinking about AI in a wide range of applications. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with O’Donnell to learn more about those use cases.

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Gen AI agents can deliver breakthrough value in modernizing legacy technology and reducing tech debt, if companies learn how to build and orchestrate them.

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I took an 8 week standup comedy class with Superior Improv Co. in Colorado, and here's a recording of my debut. (Also shout-out to comedian Christie Buchele who was a great teacher!) Literally first time on stage so if you don't have anything nice to say... go comment on one of my TikToks instead. And I really am a college professor who teaches (among other things) AI ethics! I also really did train a sheep at Zoo Atlanta for my behavioral psychology lab in 2003. If you are interested in actually *learning* about AI ethics, might I recommend my TikTok or Instagram @ professorcasey. And to the 12 year olds on YouTube: I'm going to tell your mom you said that.

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Recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) raise a number of important questions for educators. In line with our mission, the CAT aims to advance critically-reflective, evidence-informed, and human-centered answers to these questions. This page serves as a central hub of resources [...]

Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

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