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An Academic and a VC Walk into an AI Salon …
The unexpected collaboration that became “AI and the Art of Being Human”
A Kindergartener’s Guide to AI, Qualia, Affordances, and Embodied Intelligence
Forget bats and black-and-white rooms, one of the best guides to the esoteric world of AI and experiential intelligence is a 2013 book written for kindergarteners
Heads-up on new AI book
Mark your calendar: AI and the Art of Being Human launching Oct 14
Unpacking Agentic AI in Education
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.
Using AI to Assess Student-AI Conversations
Can ChatGPT be used to extract useful learning insights from long and meandering conversations between learners and AI?
Stop asking students “Show Me Your Prompt!”
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
The Scared Witless Educator’s Guide to Surviving ChatGPT GPT-5
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 …
CodeSignal turned my book into an AI-assisted professional development course
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
Futures of Learning: AI in Education with Punya Mishra
Friction Required: How will a world transformed by emerging technologies like AI reshape the world? Sean, Andrew and special guest Punya Mishra cut through the hype to reveal the creative tension, hidden risks, and big-picture futures for AI-powered, human-centered education. How can the power of AI be harnessed without losing the soul of learning?
AI on Campus: How Gen Z Is Redefining College with ChatGPT
In this deep dive of Modem Futura, Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard tackle the sensational claims surrounding the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf by Colossal Biosciences. From the Modem Futura podcast.