#AI in education
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Greece's Prime Minister Says Governments Are Fighting Yesterday's Battle on AI
In San Francisco this week, Kyriakos Mitsotakis was unusually blunt: no government is ready for how fast AI will displace jobs, kids growing up with AI companions worry him more than social media bans, and he thinks frontier lab leaders who say they don't fully understand their own models deserve to be taken seriously.
Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.
AI in Schools: Are We Repeating Past Mistakes?
AI companies are pitching classrooms hard. Parents and educators think they've seen this playbook before.
Microsoft Signs a Legally Binding AI Privacy Deal With America's Second-Largest Teachers Union
Ten enforceable rules will govern how Microsoft's AI tools handle student data in schools. Districts can opt in from November, with no need to renegotiate existing contracts.
Students Who Use AI to Study Tend to Score Lower, Global Report Finds
A 760,000-student OECD study found that AI use generally hurt academic performance, but the picture changes when students are taught to question what the AI tells them.
AI in the Classroom: The Case for Teaching With the Machine, Not Against It
A new book argues that banning AI from schools is as misguided as banning calculators was in 1979. The Guardian AI's review of that history has a direct message for the choices schools face right now.
New York City Will Ban AI Tools in Public Schools Up to Year 8
Nearly 900,000 students across NYC's public schools will face new technology limits, as the district moves to keep AI out of classrooms until high school.
Australian University Replaces Psychology Classes With an AI Chatbot
Macquarie University has swapped in-person lectures for an AI-driven 'Virtual Peer' in two mandatory psychology subjects, reigniting a debate about what students are actually paying for.
AI in the Classroom: How One School Stopped Panicking and Started Teaching With It
Cheshire Academy in Connecticut tried banning AI, then tried ignoring it. Neither worked. Here's what they're doing instead.
Harvard Business School Is Using AI Avatars to Coach Its $699 Startup Bootcamp Students
A digital copy of a real venture capital investor is now giving feedback to budding entrepreneurs. Students say they like it. The investor admits it is a little creepy.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Teens is here, with parent controls baked in
A tie-up with CodeAI aims to teach high schoolers how AI actually works, not just how to ask it for essay help.
What kids actually think about AI (it's not what adults expected)
A new survey and dozens of conversations with 10-to-18-year-olds reveal a generation that is cautious, opinionated, and far less dazzled by artificial intelligence than the headlines suggest.
Denmark tells students: defend your AI-written essay out loud or fail
Danish schools are adding oral exams and screen monitoring to catch students who use AI to write their essays. Here is what the new rules mean and why other countries are watching.
AI exam proctoring went wrong at Mexico's biggest university, and 58,000 students must sit the test again
Nearly 160,000 applicants took UNAM's entrance exam remotely this year, watched by AI software instead of human invigilators. The results looked nothing like any previous year, and now tens of thousands of students face a retake.
A New York school district just hit pause on its robot teacher plan
One district wanted to put a humanoid android in front of students. Parents and researchers have questions.