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Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

AI’s rapid growth makes future forecasting obsolete. Unlike social media, AI’s hyper-personalization creates individual cognitive impacts that are hard to measure. By offloading thinking tasks, the next generation risks eroding foundational human skills and mental habits.Read All

The people building the future would like someone to supervise it

Teachers say generative AI is forcing them to rethink one of school's oldest institutions.At the beginning of each new class, Al Rabanera lets his students know that he knows they’re using AI.“I’m …

Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers, a new version of its AI chatbot designed specifically for K-12 educators in the United States. The company said verified teachers will get free access to …

I was interviewed today, and this is what I said (with fewer F-bombs)

Anthropic gives K-12 teachers a year of premium Claude, at no cost.

AI can be a helpful tool to help students learn, but many are taking shortcuts and learning less, according to a study.

Hundreds of experts warn that AI could change the economy more than the Industrial Revolution did, saying 'We Must Act Now.'

The law school banned electronics amid growing ambivalence toward AI in many facets of society.

Mixed messages on AI are another challenge when Gen Z already faces a tough job market

College graduates booed commencement speakers for hyping AI, which is closing off many entry-level jobs. But economists are warning that the anxiety about AI obscures what is about to become the biggest shortage of workers in U.S. history.

Curated list of the best truly open-source AI projects, models, tools, and infrastructure. - alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai

"AI-exposed jobs saw relative increases in total transitions out of work and specifically to unemployment."So far, the narrative of AI in the workplace has had a consistent victim: the recent college …

Higher ed claims to foster critical-thinking skills. It has no real system for developing them.In the age of AI, machines may be able to do a range of brainwork and tasks, like gathering and …

AI is starting to make some classrooms look a little more old school.The University of Chicago Law School is requiring first-year students to keep their laptops closed in class this fall, as part of a broader strategy to ensure students learn to think independently as artificial intelligence becomes

There's a specific kind of denial showing up across the management ranks, and it's going to be very expensive for the people holding onto it.When Leadership IQ surveyed 1,251 executives, directors, and managers, the study found that 79.5% of them personally use AI tools. These aren't skeptics just si

AI's ushered in a new era of reskilling. Here's what the industry can learn from the last decade's drive to put people in tech jobs.

The technology that was supposed to make human labour obsolete is, at this moment, more expensive than the humans it was meant to replace.

In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities… and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce not just speed limits, but any other rule you can imagine. And you won’t receive a ticket weeks later by mail; you’ll be informed about and fined for your violation immediately...

Despite challenges, teachers believe AI can broaden students’ horizons.

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

CHICAGO (WLS) -- University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.The school made the announcement Thursday as …

The new agent runs across your apps and files, schedules its own tasks, and can stay with a project for hours, handing back finished decks, sheets, docs and even web apps.OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to fi

Setting a price for electricity is straightforward in principle but complicated in execution.Many major tech companies have pledged to pay their fair share of the costs associated with generating and transmitting more electricity to serve large data centers. But ratepayers across the United States ar

School librarians keep getting asked to run real programs on budgets that shrink every year, and the per-student, per-month pricing model is rarely on

New technologies making academic fraud ever more common and sophisticated

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, educators quickly asked whether students would use artificial intelligence to cheat, learn or simply get through homework more efficiently. Evidence is beginning to …