you have to understand the job
you'll get more out of AI if you know the foundations of what you want the robot to do
ChatGPT
How A.I. is changing history
History.AI has arrived
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Books by Bots | American Libraries Magazine
Librarians grapple with AI-generated material in their library collections.
5 Unbelievably Useful AI Tools For Research in 2025 (better than ChatGPT) - YouTube
Learn how to publish 3+ papers in high-impact journals EVERY year: https://academicenglishnow.com/pr-ytIf you're new here, my name is Marek Kiczkowiak, and I...
Teaching effective written communication skills with AI - Todd Rogers - YouTube
Todd Rogers, Weatherhead Professor of Public Policy (HKS), created a tool that uses AI to provide coaching in writing effectively. This tool helps students p...
Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Or: what if there is no middle ground?
Why critical thinking is key to using AI wisely – Alt Ed Austin
Returning guest writer Stephanie Simoes is the mind behind Critikid.com , a website that teaches critical thinking to children and teens through interactive courses, worksheets, and lesson plans. This article is meant to help educators (and parents) more effectively teach kids to use large lang
Expanding economic opportunity with AI | OpenAI
Fidji Simo - CEO, Applications
I tried something new with ChatGPT and it changed how I read forever
Imagine having a heart-to-heart with your favorite author.
AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors
If approved, the settlement would be the largest in the history of American copyright cases, according to a lawyer for the authors behind the lawsuit.
A Student’s Right to Refuse Generative AI
Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…
AI Fixed in 20 Minutes What Humans Couldn’t in Weeks
Déjà Vu Support Loops For weeks, my website was broken. Not just glitchy. I mean completely unusable. The first time I’d ever had such a stubborn, paralyzing headache with my site. Like anyone woul…
OpenAI Plans Jobs Platform, Certification Program for AI Roles - Slashdot
OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have AI skills in a bid to accelerate the technology's deployment across businesses and government agencies. From a report: The ChatGPT maker will also introduce a new certification program in…
I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.
AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable.
During a lesson on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I watched a classmate discreetly shift in their seat, prop their laptop up on a crossed leg, and highlight the entirety of the chapter under discussion. In seconds, they had pulled up ChatGPT and dropped the text into the prompt box, which spat out an AI-generated annotation of the chapter. These annotations are used for discussions; we turn them in to our teacher at the end of class, and many of them are graded as part of our class participation. What was meant to be a reflective, thought-provoking discussion on slavery and human resilience was flattened into copy-paste commentary. In Algebra II, after homework worksheets were passed around, I witnessed a peer use their phone to take a quick snapshot, which they then uploaded to ChatGPT. The AI quickly painted my classmate’s screen with what it asserted to be a step-by-step solution and relevant graphs.
OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls | TechCrunch
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.
OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes.
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes.
Total recall: Mistral AI's Le Chat can now remember your conversations
: A host of plugins also make it a better business tool
AI Is the Cognitive Layer. Schools Still Think It’s a Study Tool.
A New World
First AI Psychosis Case Ends in Murder-Suicide
A Connecticut man named Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after entering into psychosis linked to ChatGPT use.
Why critical thinking is key to using AI wisely – Alt Ed Austin
Returning guest writer Stephanie Simoes is the mind behind Critikid.com , a website that teaches critical thinking to children and teens through interactive courses, worksheets, and lesson plans. This article is meant to help educators (and parents) more effectively teach kids to use large lang
What Happened the Year I Banned AI
The first and most important move I made was providing every student with a 50-cent composition notebook that I sourced over multiple trips to office supply stores across the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area. Every day, my students and I engaged with our learning by writing in our notebooks. We reflected, brainstormed, and drafted everything by hand, which I learned through research has benefits I hadn’t previously considered.
The first and most important move I made was providing every student with a 50-cent composition notebook that I sourced over multiple trips to office supply stores across the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area. Every day, my students and I engaged with our learning by writing in our notebooks. We reflected, brainstormed, and drafted everything by hand, which I learned through research has benefits I hadn’t previously considered.
Build an AI Leadership Team with Keith Wasserstrom - Artificial Intelligence Podcast
Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast with Jonathan Green! In this episode, we delve into the nuanced world of leadership amidst technological
Blue Books Reimagined
Claire used blue books as a form of in-class journaling, reflection, and process-based practice writing. At the start of the semester, she distributed fresh blue books to her classes with an introductory prompt based on the learning outcomes of the class as a way to create a baseline for students’ writing, both to get to know the students as well as to learn more about their handwriting, thought process, and timed writing ability. Claire would then collect the books at the end of class. As the semester progressed, she would slowly increase the amount of writing. The prompts ranged from reading-based responses to creative musings to self-reflections. Scaffolding assignments, like annotated bibliographies, practice theses, short “they say/I say” essays, six sentence arguments, outlines, and free writing were conducted in class using blue books alongside creative poems, music video storyboarding, short story writing, and post-unit reflections based on the Taxonomy of Reflection. She then asked students to engage in the think-pair-share model where they would discuss their blue book answers with a partner, then either share out to the whole class or build upon incrementally larger sharing groups until the whole class had rejoined to discuss their ideas.
Note on the "Critique the AI Output" Assignments
We should also use AI to critique our own work.
Will We Regret Ignoring Our Students' AI Safety, Just like the AI Luminaries?
one-third of teens are using AI for emotional support, with 71% having used AI chatbots. Perhaps most concerning, 26% of these young people report preferring chatbot conversations over speaking with real people, while 23% turn to these digital companions because they feel they have no one else to talk to.
What's In Your Statement?
Friendly reminder that there's an Syllabi AI Policy Repository
What I Mean When I Say Critical AI Literacy
To unpack this, we should first maybe unpack crticial, AI, and literacy. By critical, I mean this in multiple senses of the word. One is critical as in critical thinking, as in skepticism and quest…
Shifting My Thinking about AI in the Classroom
Bali defines literacy as “beyond the basic skill of how to use something...into the capacity to know when, where, and why to use it for a purpose, and, importantly, when NOT to use it.”
How To Argue With An AI Booster
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