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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

The hidden risks of using AI to write emails

When is it OK to use AI to craft emails, and when do you risk stepping into a whole lot of unexpected hurt? Intrigued by the question, I brushed off my risk hat and dived in.

Holding on to our humanity in an age of AI

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?

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