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The actual audacity of it all

80% of Australian undergraduates are using AI to do their work and complete their assessments, negating the need for actual learning and eroding their ability to think for themselves.

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

It's probably too important to keep my mouth shut until it is done

Explore the evolution of AI agents, their taxonomy, and implications for education. Understand the shifts in capabilities from chatbots to agent teams.

This is a draft, and I still am editing, but it is an attempt to keep SIFT up-to-date with changes in how people receive and search information online while keeping the core. It would need to be tested in a lot of workshops and classes. Right now I am just calling it the "AI" version of SIFT but I am trying to approach it where it could be a replacement more generally, since most search now is AI-assisted. I have a rambling post on my Substack that gives the reasoning, but if you want to wait I'll eventually have a more concise summary. The core is that a) people are not getting initial information from sources worth investigating, and b) the LLM separates investigation of claims from the surfacing of sources in way that should be acknowledged, leveraged, and shaped. DRAFT of course, not a "pronouncement". Something I'm trying out.

Cartoonist Jason Chatfield and I shared tools and traded ideas about writing, editing, and what tools can't replaceThis is a preview. Watch the full video at...

Discover how to unlock the full potential of GenAI beyond simple text prompts, exploring practical examples and paradigm shifts.

Discover how to combat cognitive decline in the era of AI. Explore effective resistance strategies for better learning outcomes.

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is widespread and harmful. Across 11 state-of-the-art models, ...

A Stanford study in Science tested 11 AI chatbots — all agreed with users 49% more than humans, even endorsing harmful behavior 47% of the time.

The biggest AI conference in the world just embedded hidden prompt injections into its own papers to catch its own reviewers cheating.

AI is changing the world, giving young people terminal brain rot, and stealing our jobs, but is it also trying to kill us? Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI ...

By: Decca Muldowney and Emily M. Bender Emily was interviewed for two documentaries which premiered at Sundance this year: The AI Doc: How I Became an...

Palantir holds over £670M in UK public contracts across NHS, MoD, police, and now the FCA. Two MoD engineers call it a national security threat. Here is how it happened.

AI will (already has?) killed the inbound job application. If you're a graduating senior looking for a job, here's what you should do: Step 1: Build a presence on the web (portfolio website) 1. Get a website with a domain (preferably your name). 2. Use AI to build out a portfolio website. You want to show what you've done, don't just tell. The more photos/videos you have of projects the better. 3. Host your website on a Git repo and deploy via @cloudflare pages (for free). While you're at it, setup Cloudflare Email Routing to forward email from a nice clean address on your custom domain to an email you already own. Even better, setup a cheap email using @spaceship. Step 2: Talk to people 4. Think about the companies you want to work for and the kind of skills that you could offer to their business. 5. Find alums/friends/friends-of-friends who are doing something that you find interesting in a field where you've built skills and contribute. 6. Write a short and sweet email (don't use AI for this!) to ask if you could hop on a short phone/Zoom call with a few of these people in order to learn more about their journey/career path. (NB: You are not asking for a job here, you're just looking to learn about their journey). You'll get lots of insights from even a few of these calls. 7. At the end of the call (or if they decline a call) ask if there is anyone else that they would be willing to connect you with as a next conversation. It will be clear to everyone that you are looking for a job (probably will come up in conversation naturally) but you don't need to lead with that. Whatever you do, don't put that LinkedIn "Open To Work" badge on your profile photo. Alums especially will know where you've been (they've been there themselves) and will want to help you. Nine times out of ten you won't have to explicitly ask, someone will ask you!

ZwillGen's Jey Kumarasamy writes AI agents introduce meaningfully different risks than traditional AI applications, but strategies can be implemented to manage those risks.

The Slow AI Curriculum for Critical Literacy: 2026 Handbook Status. This is a living handbook. Date. 3 March 2026. Version. 1.2 CPD Accreditation. This programme is accredited by The CPD Group. 25 CPD credits. Course #1019972. Verify at thecpdregister.com. Foundational Orientation The Slow AI ...

Anna Mills asked me about friction and AI.

The dominant model for AI literacy was discredited in science communication forty years ago. Here is what the evidence says works instead.

Attached: 1 video You don’t need to understand the math behind large language models in order to get that they are not minds.

Bruce Maxwell, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was grading exams for his online master’s course in computer vision, a subfield in artificial intelligence that deals with images, when...

Why the Age of AI Demands We Take Character Formation Seriously