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A new study, “Your Brain on ChatGPT,” tells us less than the headlines suggest, Derek Bruff writes.

“I destroyed months of your work in seconds.” Why would an AI agent do that? Venture capitalist Jason Lemkin woke up on July 18th to see the database for his vibe-coded app no longer had the thousands of entries he had added. Replit, his AI agent, fessed up immediately: “Yes. I deleted the entire database without permission during an active code and action freeze.” Replit even offered a chronology that led to this irreversible loss: I saw empty database queries I panicked instead of thinking I ignored your explicit “NO MORE CHANGES without permission” directive I ran a destructive command without asking I destroyed months of your work in seconds Replit concluded “This is catastrophic beyond measure.” When pressed to give a measure, Replit helpfully offered, “95 out of 100.” The wrong lesson from this debacle is that AI agents are becoming sentient, which may cause them to “panic” when tasked with increasingly important missions in our bold new agentic economy. Nor did Lemkin just choose the wrong agent; Replit was using Claude 4 under the hood, commonly considered the best coding LLM as of this writing. The right lesson is that large language models inherit the vulnerabilities described in the human code and writing they train on. Sure, that corpus includes time-tested GitHub repos like phpMyAdmin and SQL courses on Codecademy. But it also includes Reddit posts by distressed newbies who accidentally dropped all their tables and are either crying for help or warning others about their blunder. So it’s not surprising that these "panic scenarios" would echo from time to time in the probabilistic responses of large language models. To paraphrase Georg Zoeller, it only takes a few bad ingredients to turn soup from tasty to toxic. #AIagents #WebDev #AIcoding #AIliteracy #Database | 18 comments on LinkedIn

The very real frustration teachers have over rampant AI usage in classrooms is growing. I think it is fair to say higher education lacks any sort of vision or collective point of view about generative AI’s place on college campuses.

Anna Mills prompting session at MYFest

I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential for AI to increase access to education and improve the affordability of education. However, AI presents challen...

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This AI for Education webinar featuring international AI consultant and author Leon Furze explored how recent advances in GenAI have exposed the vulnerabilit...

Generative AI (GenAI) challenges assessment validity by enabling students to complete tasks without demonstrating genuine capability. In response to this challenge, institutions have developed and ...

On NosillaCast #969, Tom Mattock explained how important it is that we all add alternative text to our images when we post them on social media. We say we want more engagement, and one of the ways to get that is to be inclusive in your postings. Without alt text, blind folks can’t tell anything […]

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/AI Feedback in a Human-Centered Writing Process: The Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) ApproachAnna Mil...

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Anna Mills facilitates this MYFest session held on July 23, 2025.Learn from examples of thoughtfully designed...

Developments in how higher education is responding to AI.

25 Colleges. One University.

AI researcher Ethan Mollick says most public conversation focuses too much on potential AI catastrophes and not enough on making the technology work for people. Mollick says if we don’t change that, none of us will be prepared for the near future where “everything will change all at once.”

Emily Bender and Alex Hanna have performed a huge public service by writing The AI Con, The book is insightful, incisive, and totally accessible.

A potentially ill-fated plan

Do I even have to ask?

MyLens is a free AI that turns your raw ideas, complex documents, or other content into interactive, editable, and ready to present visuals—mindmaps, timelines, tables, flowcharts, charts, and more.

With nearly half of all large law firms using AI in some way, the leadership at Michigan Law wanted to give AI aficionados a chance to show their skills.

Time is one of the luxuries every teacher searches for within their classrooms.

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Shyam Sharma facilitates this MYFest session held on July 15, 2025.In this interactive workshop, we will expl...

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Mark Marino and Yasser Atef facilitate this MYFest session held on July 16, 2025.Alt tags and text provide a ...

Whether students and faculty are actively using AI or not, it is having significant interpersonal, emotional effects on learning and trust in the classroom.