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A short time ago, I had a fun conversation with Clyde ISD’s Saicy Lytle and Mike Neal. They are the hosts of the Ruff Draft podcast. We had a chance to discuss a blog entry I wrote about bot …

It was inevitable, just like Thanos in the Marvel movie where he says that. Gen AI, no matter the promise, is coming for your data. Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro,…

Who has your back when it comes to data privacy? Every single Gen AI provider (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Copilot, etc.) is unable to safeguard consumer data. It’s a simple thing,…

Someone on Facebook asked: I am trying to build a unit that introduces/previews California 4th graders to the essential reading literary terms. We follow the 2017 McGraw-Hill Wonders 4th grade curr…

I saw this image, Best AI Tools for the New School Year (below), making the rounds from EducatorsTechnology.com and wondered, “Is it accurate? Are those tools really ones educators SHOULD be …

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present to a group of folks. Like many of the folks I present to, there’s an expectation that you can protect data privacy with free Gen AI tools. I may ha…

What we are seeing now with data privacy policy changes is a bait-n-switch. First, we’re promised our data is safe. Then, after we use the tool and find it indispensable, the policy is change…

Today, no advancement in technology (save for cell phones, which are now facing widespread, warranted bans) has shred through the fabric of our classrooms like AI has. (source: Clayton Kistner…

Are you a Texas public school librarian with questions about the new laws? You’re not alone. This past week at the Sun City Ed Tech Conference in El Paso, Texas, I shared a new custom GPT I p…

What we talk about when we talk about using AI

Humanities as a CAPTCHA Test in the Age of AI

The Cult of Human Exceptionalism

The AI Assessment Scale (v2) has officially been published in the open access Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice (JUTLP). Read more here!

Learn more about Gemini for Home, powering new, smarter AI features for Google Nest and other smart home products.

Yoshua Bengio called for a pause on AI model development two years ago to focus on safety standards. Companies instead invested hundreds of billions of dollars into building more advanced models capable of executing long chains of reasoning and taking autonomous action. The A.M. Turing Award winner ...

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Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

Data Commons announces the availability of its MCP Server, which is a major milestone in making all of Data Commons’ vast public datasets instantly accessible and actionable for AI developers worldwide.

New report: “Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud.” This primer maps what we currently know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts that are making people more willing to take risks, more vulnerable to deception, and more likely to either perpetuate scams or fall victim to them. AI-enhanced scams are not merely financial or technological crimes; they also exploit social vulnerabilities ­ whether short-term, like travel, or structural, like precarious employment. This means they require social solutions in addition to technical ones. By examining how scammers are changing and accelerating their methods, we hope to show that defending against them will require a constellation of cultural shifts, corporate interventions, and eff­ective legislation...

We’ll see how this goes…

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a TikTok-style app where users create AI cameos, raising fresh questions on internet “AI slop.”