California lawyer's ChatGPT use is why courts want AI regulation
A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.
The fine appears to be the largest issued over AI fabrications by a California court and came with a blistering opinion stating that 21 of 23 quotes from cases cited in the attorney’s opening brief were made up. It also noted that numerous out-of-state and federal courts have confronted attorneys for citing fake legal authority.
New Book Warns Educational Institutions Against Uncritical AI Adoption - GuginPress
In a provocative new book that challenges the current rush toward artificial intelligence in education, Dr. Finn Majlergaard argues that tech companies are
AI Promotes Critical Thinking Avsheniuk, N., Lutsenko, O., Svyrydiuk, T., & Seminlkhyna, N. (2024). Empowering Language Learners’ Critical Thinking: Evaluating ChatGPT’s Role in English Course Implementation – AWEJ. Arab World English Journal, Special Issue: ChatGPT, 210–224. Drosos, I., Sarkar,...
OpenAI researchers analyzed 1.5 million ChatGPT conversations to understand consumer behavior. They found that three-quarters of all chats focus on practical guidance, information requests, and writing. Only about 30% of use is tied to professional work, with most conversations supporting personal tasks. Coding and self-expression remain less common.
Why It Matters:
The data shows ChatGPT has become a routine assistant for everyday decisions and quick writing tasks. Marketers, educators, and small businesses can lean on this trend to create services that plug into how people already use AI, from content drafts to on-demand research, making AI easier to adopt in daily workflows without a steep learning curve.
OpenAI readies Orders in ChatGPT for native checkout
What we know so far: ChatGPT will get a new setting for Orders in the mobile and desktop apps; Users likely will be able to check out and track orders natively as well.
More on their open letter, Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia , and position piece, Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia , by Guest et al.
How to use ChatGPT at university without cheating: ‘Now it’s more like a study partner’
The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?
How AI Simulations Match Up to Real Students—and Why It Matters
educators need to prompt AI carefully and use their own professional judgement when deciding if AI outputs match their students’ needs.
“The great advantage of the current technologies is that it is relatively easy to use, so anyone can access [them],” Kochmar said. “It’s just at this point, I would not trust the models out of the box to mimic students’ actual ability to solve tasks at a specific level.”
Professional Development for AI in Schools: A Three-Dimensional Approach
PD for GenAI isn't a "one and done" event - it needs to fit with teachers' existing disciplinary expertise and their deep, contextual understanding of what it means to teach.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.”
Dan Bowen and Ray Fleming are experienced education renegades who have worked in many various educational institutions and educational companies across the world. They talk about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation.
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A new survey conducted May 7-15, 2024 for the Walton Family Foundation shows that knowledge of and support for AI in education is growing amongst parents, teachers, K-12 students, and college students. More than 80% of each group saying it has had a positive impact on education.
