Advanced Technology Transitions

AIs are becoming startlingly good at emulating what we do. But what happens when they start to influence who we are and how we behave?

A quick plug for this week’s episode of Modem Futura with Punya Mishra, which dives into what agentic AI does and doesn’t mean in education, and why this matters.

Can ChatGPT be used to extract useful learning insights from long and meandering conversations between learners and AI?

As educators continue to grapple with students using AI for assignments, we need to move beyond the idea that showing the original prompt is useful

If you’re panicking over how to survive in world where every student has access to one of the most powerful AI’s ever made, I have a plan …

As universities and companies scramble to bring agentic AI to learning, I was intrigued by CodeSignal’s approach to using AI in a new course inspired by the book Future Rising

Will AI ever be able to transcend the “knowledge closure boundary” — the conceptual barrier between what’s known (or what can be inferred from what’s known and understood) and what is not — and make truly novel and transformative discoveries?

This morning the White House unveiled its new AI Action Plan for the US. There’s a lot here to digest, but I did want to provide my first take on the plan – and what it might mean moving forward.

XENOPS: An AI prompt that assesses an AI model’s “moral character.

Motive, means, and opportunity: It’s a common mantra in solving crimes. But it’s also a useful framework for approaching the potential risks of being manipulated by advanced AI systems.