Why I Use AI Transparency Statements in My Classroom
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What will AI do to higher education? - eCampus News
Undergraduates discuss how AI must be understood better in higher education so that those using it can do so ethically.
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame
The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.”
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
A Practical Roadmap on How to Build AI Agents (for Beginners)
This is a practical roadmap on how to build AI agents for beginners, showcasing a step-by-step path starting with a model that thinks clearly,
Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT
Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad
Smith: Study finds ChatGPT replicates human prejudices and fails to recognize exceptional work — reinforcing the inequalities it's intended to fix.
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge. Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online. A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations. It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a "privacy disaster in progress".
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge.Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online.A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations.It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a "privacy disaster in progress".
The End of Handwriting | WIRED
Students’ ability to outsource critical thinking to LLMs has left schools and universities scrambling to find ways to prevent plagiarism and cheating. Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education, Inside Higher Ed wrote in June, university professors are considering bringing back tests written longhand. Sales of “blue books”—those anxiety-inducing notebooks used for college exams—are ticking up, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Handwriting, in person, may soon become one of the few things a student can do to prove they’re not a bot.
Students’ ability to outsource critical thinking to LLMs has left schools and universities scrambling to find ways to prevent plagiarism and cheating. Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education, Inside Higher Ed wrote in June, university professors are considering bringing back tests written longhand. Sales of “blue books”—those anxiety-inducing notebooks used for college exams—are ticking up, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Handwriting, in person, may soon become one of the few things a student can do to prove they’re not a bot.
More Schools Are Considering Education-Focused AI Tools. What’s the Best Way to Use Them?
A new report shows AI teaching assistants could be beneficial in the classroom — but may also bring invisible bias.
Poisoned For Progress: How AI Is Quietly Draining Black Communities
As AI demands skyrocket, so does water and energy use. In Black neighborhoods, the environmental cost is rooted in systemic neglect.
A Year of Library Social Media in One Weekend: How I Did It with ChatGPT and Canva
How I built 43 weeks of engaging Instagram posts with AI, Canva Bulk Create, and Canva’s built-in scheduler
How hands-on AI experience is shaping future business leaders
“Through the ‘Five AI Buckets’ classroom discussions, I gained a deeper knowledge of how AI reshapes various aspects of our daily lives,” a College of Business student said in a survey. “The lessons highlighted AI's incredible capabilities, especially in areas like problem-solving, information retrieval, ideation, summarization, and its potential for social good. These classroom discussions also made me aware of the ethical challenges that arise from the general use of AI, such as biases in algorithms and data privacy concerns.”
The Five AI Buckets include:
Information Retrieval – Using AI tools to collect and assess research, evaluate sources, and verify credibility. Ideation and Creative Inquiry – Generating ideas aligned with global challenges through guided AI prompts. Problem Solving – Engaging with public datasets to make data-informed decisions on real-world issues. Summarization – Analyzing and condensing academic research using AI to identify key insights. AI for Good – Creating personal impact plans and reflecting on how AI can support social progress.
“Through the ‘Five AI Buckets’ classroom discussions, I gained a deeper knowledge of how AI reshapes various aspects of our daily lives,” a College of Business student said in a survey. “The lessons highlighted AI's incredible capabilities, especially in areas like problem-solving, information retrieval, ideation, summarization, and its potential for social good. These classroom discussions also made me aware of the ethical challenges that arise from the general use of AI, such as biases in algorithms and data privacy concerns.”
The Five AI Buckets include:Information Retrieval – Using AI tools to collect and assess research, evaluate sources, and verify credibility.Ideation and Creative Inquiry – Generating ideas aligned with global challenges through guided AI prompts.Problem Solving – Engaging with public datasets to make data-informed decisions on real-world issues.Summarization – Analyzing and condensing academic research using AI to identify key insights.AI for Good – Creating personal impact plans and reflecting on how AI can support social progress.
ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
If an algorithm is the death of high school English, maybe that's an okay thing.
"...In the mode of 'we don't know'"
Part 1 of an interview with Rob Nelson
"...In the mode of 'we don't know'"
Part 1 of an interview with Rob Nelson
"...give ourselves permission to experiment..."
Part 2 of an interview with Rob Nelson
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?
The AI Wolf That Education Must Face
GPT-5 is now here and freely available to all.
Open Source AI is Going Mainstream
A few interesting things are happening around open source artificial intelligence, and even if you haven't been paying much attention to generative AI beyond the big name brands like ChatGPT, I think this is something that you should take a look at.
ChatGPT-5 Just Changed My Mind — AI Has No Place in My Classroom
I’ve never been anti-technology. I’ve even written about ways AI can help students when it’s used with care. But my first real encounter…
The Enshittification of Generative AI
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Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-5, a new “flagship” model of some sort that’s allegedly better at coding and writing, but upon closer inspection it feels like the same old shit it’s been shoveling for the last year or two.
Sure, I’m being dismissive, but three years and multiple half-billion-dollar training runs later, OpenAI has delivered us a model that is so
I Built a Powerful Gaming PC Solely to Run AI Models. Here's Why
Local models come with a different set of advantages and drawbacks than their more connected versions.
ChatGPT jumps a level with OpenAI's major GPT-5 update
The Thursday release of GPT-5 brings together traditional and "reasoning" models and ups the ante in the race toward so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Driving the news: OpenAI is making the new model available Thursday for free and paid users, with enterprise and educational customers getting access starting next week.
OpenAI says latest ChatGPT upgrade is big step forward but still can’t do humans’ jobs
the main improvements in GPT-5 included: fewer factual errors, or hallucinations; better software coding, allowing it to create functional websites and apps; increased capability at creative writing; and, rather than “refusing” a prompt that breaches its guidelines outright, the model will instead try to give the most helpful response possible within safety guidelines, or at least explain why it cannot help.
The agent feature in ChatGPT – which carries out tasks such as finding restaurant availability and shopping online – will also be able to access users’ Gmail, Google calendar and contacts, if given permission.
As with its predecessors, GPT-5 can generate voice, image and text and can deal with queries in those formats too.
OpenAI said the upgraded ChatGPT would be better at answering health-related questions and would be more proactive at “flagging potential concerns” – such as serious physical or mental illness.
the main improvements in GPT-5 included: fewer factual errors, or hallucinations; better software coding, allowing it to create functional websites and apps; increased capability at creative writing; and, rather than “refusing” a prompt that breaches its guidelines outright, the model will instead try to give the most helpful response possible within safety guidelines, or at least explain why it cannot help.The agent feature in ChatGPT – which carries out tasks such as finding restaurant availability and shopping online – will also be able to access users’ Gmail, Google calendar and contacts, if given permission.As with its predecessors, GPT-5 can generate voice, image and text and can deal with queries in those formats too.OpenAI said the upgraded ChatGPT would be better at answering health-related questions and would be more proactive at “flagging potential concerns” – such as serious physical or mental illness.
OpenAI's GPT-5 is available for free for everyone. Sam Altman says it's so good, GPT-4 feels 'miserable.'
OpenAI says the model will be available for free for everyone and that users will no longer need to switch between previous models for different tasks. GPT-5 will switch automatically, the company said, depending on the kind of request and its complexity. GPT-5 will be available in standard, mini, and nano versions. Paid users will have higher usage limits.
OpenAI says the model will be available for free for everyone and that users will no longer need to switch between previous models for different tasks. GPT-5 will switch automatically, the company said, depending on the kind of request and its complexity. GPT-5 will be available in standard, mini, and nano versions. Paid users will have higher usage limits.
AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say. - Slashdot
AI meeting transcription software is inadvertently sharing private conversations with all meeting participants through automated summaries. WSJ found a series of mishaps that people confirmed on-record.
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An Open Letter to My Students about AI
AI for students: Learn to thrive! Understand AI's impact, use it wisely, boost your critical thinking, and succeed in the AI era.
What Happened the Year I Banned AI
My students will develop essential skills more effectively without artificial intelligence, so I'll keep banning AI tools in my class.