As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

NB. this is the draft introduction to the final chapter of my still-being-written book on AI and education (‘AI and education: the challenge of thinking differently’ Polity, due late 2026). As we h…

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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…

The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.

A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times

At Alpha School, students do only two hours of academic work a day, and tuition costs $75,000.

Tekoälyllä tehdyt kuvat ovat olleet kaupungin sivuilla jo kaksi vuotta, mutta niiden käyttö nousi julkiseen keskusteluun tällä viikolla.

These AI tools are useful, but they have serious limitations.

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

Technology's Distortions of Language Language is a vessel through which meaning is mutually constructed. From this shared imagination, we learn how others understand and aim to understand them. We also navigate how much of ourselves to put into this space. The imagination space is therefore negotiated through language: our thoughts

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of "AI psychosis."

Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. That you should know what to type into prompt windows, because it will save you time. That will get you jobs in the economy

Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies’ generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that […]

Are AI toys the future of playtime or a risk to emotional development? A collaboration between Mattel and OpenAI raises sobering questions.

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

AI student agents vs AI educator agents, fight!

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

In an AI gold rush, those selling the proverbial pickaxes are surest to win: cloud companies provide scalable managed computational resources as a subscr

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Over recent weeks, controversy has surfaced over research publications claiming to show statistical evidence that generative AI has beneficial effects on learning.…

Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c