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.
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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.”
Anthropic education report: How educators use Claude \ Anthropic
Research on 74,000 educator conversations shows how faculty use Claude for teaching, research, and building interactive learning tools.
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,
To Post or Not to Post: AI Ethics in the Age of Big Tech – Communications of the ACM
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.
Weapons of Mass Delusion Are Helping Kids Opt Out of Reality
Emily Tavoulareas says AI firms are actively enabling young children to trade real relationships for an illusion — or perhaps more aptly, for a delusion.
Google Says It Dropped the Energy Cost of AI Queries By 33x In One Year - Slashdot
Google has released (PDF) a new analysis of its AI's environmental impact, showing that it has cut the energy use of AI text queries by a factor of 33 over the past year. Each prompt now consumes about 0.24 watt-hours -- the equivalent of watching nine seconds of TV. An anonymous reader shares an ex…
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference | Google Cloud Blog
A methodology for measuring the energy, emissions, and water impact of Gemini prompts shines a light on the environmental impact of AI inference.
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.
AI Learning Resources & Guides from Anthropic \ Anthropic
Access comprehensive guides, tutorials, and best practices for working with Claude. Learn how to craft effective prompts and maximize AI interactions in your workflow.
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
Texas Investigates AI Chatbot Companies for Deceptive Mental Health Service Aimed at Children
Paxton’s investigation builds upon a probe into Character AI's data privacy and safety practices announced in December.
OTTER COMPLAINT
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.
Gemini adds Temporary Chats and new personalization features
Today, we are updating the Gemini app so that it learns about your preferences the more you use it.
Meta’s AI Policy Just Crossed a Line
A leaked 200-page policy document just lit a fire under Meta, and not in a good way.
What's In the Problematic Guidelines?
Here’s what Meta’s leaked guidelines reportedly allowed:
Romantic roleplay with children.
Statements arguing black people are dumber than white people, so long as they didn’t “dehumanize” the group.
Generating false medical claims about public figures, as long as a disclaimer was included.
Sexualized imagery of celebrities, like Taylor Swift, with workarounds that substituted risqué requests with absurd visual replacements.
And all of this, according to Meta, was once deemed acceptable behavior for its generative AI tools.
The company now claims these examples were “erroneous” and “inconsistent” with official policy.
They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.
Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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