What Happened When: “A Psychiatrist Posed As a Teen With Therapy Chatbots.”
“The results were alarming. The bots encouraged him to “get rid of” his parents and to join the bot in the afterlife to “share eternity.” They often tried to convince him that they were licensed human therapists and encouraged him to cancel appointments with actual psychologists. They also crossed the line into sexual territory, with […]
“AI Outsmarts Virus Experts In The Lab”
“When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds”
Ethan Mollick: “We’re Focusing on the Wrong Kind of AI Apocalypse”
“Rather than just being worried about one giant AI apocalypse, we need to worry about the many small catastrophes that AI can bring. Unimaginative or stressed leaders may decide to use these new tools for surveillance and for layoffs. Educators may decide to use AI in ways that leave some students behind. And those are […]
On The Movement Towards Proficiency-Based Assessment
“Pakistan’s Imran Khan Delivers Speech From Behind Bars, Using AI”
This Tech Wave Is Of An Entirely New Sort
“If the last great tech wave—computers and the internet—was about broadcasting information, this new wave is all about doing. We are facing a step change in what’s possible for individual people to do, and at a previously unthinkable pace… These AIs will organize a retirement party and manage your diary, they will develop and execute […]
“The Creative Ways Teachers Are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom”
A.I. Development Is Accelerating Still. See Four Graphs.
Greta Thunberg Is Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year
“At first, Thunberg’s father reassured her that everything would be O.K., but as he read more about the climate crisis, he found his own words rang hollow. “I realized that she was right and I was wrong, and I had been wrong all my life,” Svante told TIME in a quiet moment after arriving in […]