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“Artificial Intimacy: How AI Exploits Our Social Brains”

“With AI systems designed specifically to foster trust and emotional connection, users lower their natural defenses, creating a perfect storm where the most private aspects of human experience become commodified data points. Unlike previous technologies that merely tracked behaviors, these AI relationships extract emotional patterns, decision-making tendencies, and value systems—precisely the information needed to influence […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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