Thursday, October 30, 2025
Universities at a turning point in an era of AI insecurity - Amber Wang, University World News
7 skills Harvard says will keep you employed in the age of ChatGPT - Times of India
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Universities Teaching Wisdom Skills 2030 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
What’s Your AI-dentity? - Bloomberg
The momentous decisions the world faces about AI’s role in our lives offer outcomes that seemingly range from universal enlightenment to mass extinction. How do you see AI shaping our future? More importantly, how do you want it to shape our future? Are you an Accelerationist? A Pragmatist? A Doomer? Take our quiz to find out which one of six different AI-dentities most closely resembles your views, how your answers affected your result and who your real-life fellow travelers might be.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
EDUCAUSE Action Plan Looks 10 Years Ahead at GenAI for Education - Abby Sourwine, GovTech
‘Urgent need’ for more AI literacy in higher education, report says - Anna McKie, Research Professional News
Monday, October 27, 2025
Realizing the full potential of AI agents - McKinsey
The story of agentic AI is still unfolding. The majority of CEOs have yet to see bottom-line value from AI agents. But there’s no question that the pace and potential scope of change are breathtaking. While we’re waiting for the technology to fully mature, CEOs can take advantage of this “trough of disillusionment” to understand the implications for how their companies operate, make some essential decisions, and get a jump on their competitors. A year into the agentic AI revolution, one lesson is clear: It takes hard work to do it well. We recently dug into more than 50 agentic AI builds we’ve supported, as well as dozens of others in the marketplace. Six lessons have emerged. Here’s one that may surprise you: Agents aren’t always the answer.
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/email/shortlist/272/2025-10-17b.html
Concern and excitement about AI - Jacob Poushter, Moira Fagan and Manolo Corichi, Pew Research Center
A median of 34% of adults across 25 countries are more concerned than excited about the increased use of artificial intelligence in daily life. A median of 42% are equally concerned and excited, and 16% are more excited than concerned. Older adults, women, people with less education and those who use the internet less often are particularly likely to be more concerned than excited. Roughly half of adults in the U.S., Italy, Australia, Brazil and Greece say they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. But in 15 of the 25 countries polled, the largest share of people are equally concerned and excited. In no country surveyed is the largest share more excited than concerned about the increasing use of AI in daily life.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Sharing Resources, Best Practices in AI - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
3 Leadership Micro-Credentials Are Redefining The Modern Career Path -Cheryl Robinson, Forbes
Traditional degrees are yielding to skills-based hiring, making micro-credentials crucial for professionals. These short, focused programs, offered by universities and tech platforms, efficiently equip leaders with vital skills like digital fluency and strategic agility. They address the urgent need for reskilling by 2030, enabling continuous learning and proving capabilities without lengthy academic commitments, though standardization is still evolving.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
About 1 in 5 U.S. workers now use AI in their job, up since last year - Luona Lin, Pew Research
Friday, October 24, 2025
Quantum record smashed as scientists build mammoth 6,000-qubit system — and it works at room temperature - Tristan Greene, Live Science
Scientists at Caltech have conducted a record-breaking experiment in which they synchronized 6,100 atoms in a quantum array. This research could lead to more robust, fault-tolerant quantum computers. In the experiment, they used paired neutral atoms as the quantum bits (qubits) in a system and held them in a state of “superposition” to conduct quantum computations. To achieve this, the scientists split a laser beam into 12,000 "laser tweezers" which together held the 6,100 qubits. As described in a new study published Sept. 24 in the journal Nature, the scientists not only set a new record for the number of atomic qubits placed in a single array — they also extended the length of "superposition" coherency.
https://share.google/
Google shares a massive list of 1,000+ generative AI use cases - Aditya Tiwari, Neowin
Thursday, October 23, 2025
A systematic review on AI-enhanced pedagogies in higher education in the Global SouthProvisionally accepted - Gloria KhozaNomfundo and Freda Van Der Walt, Frontiers in Education
Artificial intelligence is gaining traction in higher education for its ability to simulate human intelligence and support learning processes. This systematic review investigates how artificial intelligence-enhanced teaching approaches are being applied in higher education institutions across the Global South. The study draws on peer-reviewed literature identified through a structured search of SCOPUS and Web of Science databases, using clearly defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The findings reveal that most applications focus on improving technical efficiency and administrative functions, while pedagogical integration remains limited. Key barriers include inadequate infrastructure, unequal access to digital tools, limited faculty preparedness, and ethical considerations.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1667884/abstract
Universities need AI sovereignty to protect free thought - Peter Salden, University World News
The question of digital sovereignty is becoming more urgent for universities in the age of artificial intelligence. AI-based applications are not only critical from the perspective of data protection and functional transparency, but also pose a threat to independent thinking. AI literacy, an independent AI infrastructure and a clearly defined strategic framework are fundamental for defending academic freedom. Since the beginning of digitalisation, universities worldwide have been preoccupied with the question of digital sovereignty. This involves issues such as ensuring that IT applications comply with data protection regulations and reducing technical and financial dependencies. However, artificial intelligence is challenging digital sovereignty in new ways that go beyond these classic aspects.
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20251007143251841
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
How to Teach Critical Thinking When AI Does the Thinking - Timothy Cook, Psychology Today
Students who've learned dialogic engagement with AI behave completely differently. They ask follow-up questions during class discussions. They can explain their reasoning when challenged. They challenge each other's arguments using evidence they personally evaluated. They identify limitations in their own conclusions. They want to keep investigating beyond the assignment requirements. The difference is how they used it. This means approaching every AI interaction as a sustained interrogation. Instead of "write an analysis of symbolism in The Great Gatsby," students must "generate an AI analysis first, then critique what it missed with their own interpretations of the symbolism. “What assumptions does the AI make in its interpretation and how could it be wrong?" “What would a 20th-century historian say about this approach?” “Can you see these themes present in The Great Gatsby in your own life?”
The end of AI and the future of higher education - James Yoonil Auh, University World News
We now live in what I call the atmosphere of cognition: not the disappearance of AI, but its absorption into the invisible architectures of institutional life. Like Wi-Fi, AI is no longer a tool at the margins but the infrastructure of thought. Algorithms now shape admissions. Predictive models determine financial aid. Recommendation engines curate research. Plagiarism detectors and manuscript filters run silently in the background. To speak of ‘using AI’ in 2025 is like debating whether universities should install electricity. This is not simply a technical evolution. It is civilisational. The printing press multiplied texts, but students still thought alone. The internet digitised knowledge, but students still wrote in their own words. MOOCs disrupted delivery but not learning itself. AI is different. It entwines itself with cognition.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
‘The Future of Teaching in the AI Age’ Draws Hundreds of Educators to Iona University - Iona University
AI in higher education: Experts discuss changes to be seen - Stephen Kenney, Phys.org
Monday, October 20, 2025
‘It would almost be stupid not to use ChatGPT’ - Hoger Onderwijs Persbureau, Resource Online Netherlands
Amid widespread concern among lecturers about students’ use of AI tools, public philosopher Bas Haring mostly sees opportunities: ‘Outsourcing part of the thinking process to AI shouldn’t be prohibited.’ Bas Haring annoyed a lot of people with a provocative recent experiment. For one of his students last year, the philosopher and professor of public understanding of science delegated his responsibilities as a thesis supervisor to AI. The student discussed her progress not with Haring, but with ChatGPT – and the results were surprisingly positive. While Haring may be excited about the outcome of his experiment, not everyone shares his enthusiasm. Some have called it unethical, irresponsible, unimaginative and even disgusting. It has also been suggested that this could provide populists with an excuse to further slash education budgets.
C-RAC Releases Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - MSCHE
Sunday, October 19, 2025
OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System - Laren Goode and Will Knight, Wired
The future of the CLO: Leading in a world of merged work and learning - Bryan Hancock and Heather Stefanski with Lisa Christensen, McKinsey
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Beyond learning design: supporting pedagogical innovation in response to AI - Charlotte von Essen, Times Higher Education
As we celebrate teachers, AI is redefining the classroom - Hani Shehada, CGTN
Friday, October 17, 2025
Universities can turn AI from a threat to an opportunity by teaching critical thinking - Anitia Lubbe, the Conversation
Emerging and established readers’ cognitive and metacognitive strategies during online evaluation - Julie A. Corrigan, Elena Forzani - Computers in Human Behavior
•This study describes a range of cognitive and metacognitive strategies involving qualitatively more complex and varied strategies used to critically evaluate online information.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
AI Boom Drives Surge in Demand for Tech Skills in 2025 - Victor Dey, GovTech
Artificial intelligence is doing more than just automating workflows in 2025: It’s dismantling the very idea of education. Once seen as one-time achievements, a bachelor’s degree, a professional certificate, or an annual corporate training session, are no longer guarantees of relevance in a world where knowledge ages almost as quickly as technology itself. Nearly half of talent development leaders surveyed in LinkedIn’s 2025 Workplace Learning Report say they see a skills crisis, with organizations under pressure to equip employees for both present and future roles through dynamic skill-building, particularly in AI and generative AI.
https://www.govtech.com/education/ai-boom-drives-surge-in-demand-for-tech-skills-in-2025
New data show no AI jobs apocalypse—for now - Molly Kinder, et al; Brookings
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Higher Education AI Transformation 2030 - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
From Detection to Development: How Universities Are Ethically Embedding AI for Learning - Isabelle Bambury, Higher Education Policy Institute
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Research, curriculum and grading: new data sheds light on how professors are using AI - Lee V. Gaines, NPR
William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot - Laren Weber, William and Mary
The initiative is a collaboration between the School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics (CDSP), Information Technology, W&M Libraries and the Mason School of Business and is part of a broader push to embed advanced AI into everyday academic life. The pilot will explore how AI can enhance teaching, research and university operations, while also gathering feedback to guide the responsible and effective use of AI across campus. The results will help shape how W&M leverages AI to advance our world-class academics and research. Additionally, faculty and staff outside of the pilot who are interested in purchasing an Edu license can visit the W&M ChatGPT Edu site for more information.
https://news.wm.edu/2025/10/01/william-mary-launches-chatgpt-edu-pilot/
Monday, October 13, 2025
UMass Students Showcase AI Tools Built for State Agencies - Government Technology
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey invited University of Massachusetts, Amherst students to create AI tools to assist public agencies. The students traveled to Boston last week to share their work. Government leaders in Massachusetts are looking to university students as partners in delivering AI services to their constituents, and a recent showcase highlighted how these collaborations have simplified user experiences with state technology.
AI Grading: Revolutionizing Feedback in Higher Education - Bioengineer
Sunday, October 12, 2025
AI Isn't a Curse. It's a Gift for College Learning. - Samuel J. Abrams, Real Clear Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran a piece that offers a beautiful and evocative snapshot of intellectual life at its best. Its authors, Khafiz Kerimov and Nicholas Bellinson of St. John’s College, describe students gathered around a blackboard in a campus coffee shop, each wielding a different color of chalk as they work through Euclid and Lobachevsky together. This is admirable, and more institutions could learn from St. John’s commitment to dialogue. But from this unique experience, the authors make a sweeping claim: that artificial intelligence - specifically tools like ChatGPT’s “study mode”- will steal our ability to think and work together. They worry that students will abandon collaborative learning for solitary interactions with machines, and that the vibrant hum of campus life will fade into silence. It’s a poetic warning. It’s also profoundly mistaken.
Is Artificial Intelligence Reshaping Higher Education? - Amy Dittmar, et al; Baker Institute
What does the acceleration of artificial intelligence mean for higher education, from the admissions process to students’ academic and intellectual development? How can students learn to engage responsibly with AI, and what does it mean for the early graduate labor market? Baker Institute fellow and guest host Michael O. Emerson sat down with Rice University Provost Amy Dittmar, University of Houston Associate Provost Jeff Morgan, and Burke Nixon, a senior lecturer in Rice’s writing and communication program, to discuss the advent of AI and its implications for colleges and universities.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Sora 2 is here - OpenAI
The agentic organization: Contours of the next paradigm for the AI era - Alexander Sukharevsky, et al; McKinsey
Friday, October 10, 2025
OpEd: Adapting Higher Ed To New AI World - Alfonzo Berumen, LA Business Journal
ChatGPT Study Mode - Explained By A Learning Coach - Justin Sung, YouTube
Thursday, October 09, 2025
Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry - Governor Gavin Newsom
Udemy Banks on Artificial Intelligence to Power Online Learning - Bloomberg Businessweek
Wednesday, October 08, 2025
50 AI agents get their first annual performance review - 6 lessons learned - Joe McKendrick, ZDnet
The future of work is agentic - McKinsey
Tuesday, October 07, 2025
Factors influencing undergraduates’ ethical use of ChatGPT: a reasoned goal pursuit approach - Radu BogdanToma & Iraya Yánez-Pérez, Interactive Learning Environments
Linking digital competence, self-efficacy, and digital stress to perceived interactivity in AI-supported learning contexts - Jiaxin Ren, Juncheng Guo & Huanxi Li, Nature
Monday, October 06, 2025
Sans Safeguards, AI in Education Risks Deepening Inequality - Government Technology
A new UNESCO report cautions that artificial intelligence has the potential to threaten students’ access to quality education. The organization calls for a focus on people, to ensure digital tools enhance education. While AI and other digital technology hold enormous potential to improve education, a new UNESCO report warns they also risk eroding human rights and worsening inequality if deployed without deliberately robust safeguards. Digitalization and AI in education must be anchored in human rights, UNESCO argued in the report, AI and Education: Protecting the Rights of Learners, and the organization urged governments and international organizations to focus on people, not technology, to ensure digital tools enhance rather than endanger the right to education.
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/sans-safeguards-ai-in-education-risks-deepening-inequality
What's your college's AI policy? Find out here. - Chase DiBenedetto, Mashable
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Linking digital competence, self-efficacy, and digital stress to perceived interactivity in AI-supported learning contexts - Jiaxin Ren, Nature
What your students are thinking about artificial intelligence - Florencia Moore & Agostina Arbia, Time Higher Eduction
Students have been quick to adopt and integrate GenAI into their study practices, using it as a virtual assistant to enhance and enrich their learning. At the same time, they sometimes rely on it as a substitute for their own ideas and thinking, since GenAI can complete academic tasks in a matter of seconds. While the first or even second iteration may yield a hallucinated or biased response, with prompt refinement and guidance, it can produce results very close to our expectations almost instantly.
Saturday, October 04, 2025
Syracuse University adopts Claude for Education - EdScoop
Colleges are giving students ChatGPT. Is it safe? - Rebecca Ruiz and Chase DiBenedetto - Mashable
Friday, October 03, 2025
We’re introducing GDPval, a new evaluation that measures model performance on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations. - OpenAI
The AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education - Georgia Tech
Thursday, October 02, 2025
Operationalize AI Accountability: A Leadership Playbook - Kevin Werbach, Knowledge at Wharton
Strengthening our Frontier Safety Framework - Four Flynn, Helen King, Anca Dragan, Google Deepmind
We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. - AI Red Lines
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
AI Hallucinations May Soon Be History - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
AI is changing how Harvard students learn: Professors balance technology with academic integrity - MSN
AI has quickly become ubiquitous at Harvard. According to The Crimson’s 2025 Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey, nearly 80% of instructors reported encountering student work they suspected was AI-generated—a dramatic jump from just two years ago. Despite this, faculty confidence in identifying AI output remains low. Only 14% of respondents felt “very confident” in their ability to distinguish human from AI work. Research from Pennsylvania State University underscores this challenge: humans can correctly detect AI-generated text roughly 53% of the time, only slightly better than flipping a coin.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Who’s funding the AI data center boom? - McKinsey
Making the Case for Technology To Drive Higher Ed Enrollment - Tony Digrazia, Ed Tech
Monday, September 29, 2025
College Students’ Test Scores Soared After ChatGPT. Their Writing? Not So Much - Steve Fink, Study Finds
Exam scores jumped nearly 22 points after ChatGPT’s launch, while writing project marks dropped by about 10.
Author Talks: The key to ideation? Start with the answer, not the problem - McKinsey
What do you mean by ‘begin with the answer’? They don’t call it a “creative leap” for nothing. Nobody talks about a series of steps that lead to a creation, a genuinely creative idea. The concept of divergent thinking, or “going wide,” is key to creating truly new ideas. Most of what we typically do is convergent thinking: reducing, criticizing, judging, deciding. Once you have an answer, that’s exciting. Then you can usually work back through it to prove it should work in theory. That’s what I mean by starting with the answer. Everyone likes to think that you can start with an analysis of the data and come up with an insight. Then you can start talking about possible solutions, proceed in a linear process of steps, and arrive at a great idea. I just haven’t experienced that ideas happen in that way. Great ideas come out of generating lots of ideas, most of which will be bad, one of which—just one of which—could be brilliant.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models - OpenAI
In today’s deployment settings, models have little opportunity to scheme in ways that could cause significant harm. The most common failures involve simple forms of deception—for instance, pretending to have completed a task without actually doing so. We've put significant effort into studying and mitigating deception and have made meaningful improvements in GPT‑5 compared to previous models. For example, we’ve taken steps to limit GPT‑5’s propensity to deceive, cheat, or hack problems—training it to acknowledge its limits or ask for clarification when faced with impossibly large or under-specified tasks and to be more robust to environment failures—though these mitigations are not perfect and continued research is needed.
Public views on being human in 2035 - Lee Rainy, Elon University
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Want to future-proof your campus? Start here - Kevin Sanders, University Business
Higher education is at a crossroads. Our institutions are wrestling with enrollment cliffs, questions of relevance, technological disruption and the age-old challenge of governance. Boards debate how to remain solvent. Presidents strategize about new programs and partnerships. Provosts explore AI, online expansion or micro-credentials. Everyone is reaching for levers they hope will strengthen the institution. Yet beneath all these efforts lies a single, urgent question: How do we make our institutions stronger in a time of change? In my experience, the answer is deceptively simple: develop leaders.
https://universitybusiness.com/want-to-future-proof-your-campus-start-here/
A day in the life of a student, 2045 - John Johnston, eCampus News
It is 6:45 a.m. in the year 2045, and Maya wakes to the gentle chime of her AI-integrated learning assistant. The device, embedded into her home’s wall system, has already analyzed her biometric data, sleep cycle, and class schedule to recommend a custom morning routine. Today’s recommendation is a brief guided meditation, followed by a protein-based breakfast delivered via drone from the university’s dining cooperative. Before her feet touch the floor, her education has already begun.
Education must remain centered on curiosity, connection, and human agency
4 ways AI is empowering the next generation of great teachers
The rise of AI-native universities: OpenAI’s vision for every student
https://www.ecampusnews.com/ai-in-education/2025/09/05/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-student-2045/
Friday, September 26, 2025
Students are using AI tools instead of building foundational skills - but resistance is growing - Joe McKendrick, ZDnet
Whether you are studying information technology, teaching it, or creating the software that powers learning, it's clear that artificial intelligence is challenging and changing education. Now, questions are being asked about using AI to boost learning, an approach that has implications for long-term career skills and privacy.
Google narrows the gap with ChatGPT as millions tap Nano Banana to make hyperrealistic 3D figurines. - Robert Hart, the Verge
The surge has likely propelled Gemini to the top of various app stores around the world. At the time of writing, Gemini is the leading iPhone app on Apple’s App Stores in the US, UK, Canada, France, Australia, Germany, and Italy. In many cases, it reached the prime position by surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which now sits in second place. On September 11th, Woodward said “India has found” the image editor and later said that Google was going to have to implement “temporary limits” on usage in order to manage extreme demand. “It’s a full-on stampede to use” Gemini, he said, adding that the “team is doing heroics to keep the system up and running.” So, what’s driving the surge? While a variety of edits have been popular, the runaway hit of Nano Banana has people turning themselves — or their pets — into 3D figurines.
https://www.theverge.com/news/778106/google-gemini-nano-banana-image-editor
Thursday, September 25, 2025
How this AI chatbot helps students navigate their first semester - Alcino Donadel, University Business
Google Notebook LM’s Capabilities and Impact: Expert analysis from - Agentic Brain, AI Report
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Here’s how to tackle this root cause for tech burnout - Alcino Donadel
Back-end operations are undergoing a period of upheaval as campus business units adopt new technology to enhance staff productivity. Uneven implementation can isolate staff and cause burnout, blunting the promise of new tools, according to an analysis of four recent reports covered by University Business. The reports examined staff sentiment and their work environments across various offices, including financial aid, cybersecurity, IT, enrollment management and teaching and learning. While the scope of each report differed, the surveys painted a picture of staff who are aware of (and often willing to adopt) new technologies, but are frequently hampered by insufficient institutional support. Among the most common staff demands was professional development in artificial intelligence.
https://universitybusiness.com/heres-how-to-tackle-this-root-cause-for-tech-burnout/
Researchers ‘polarised’ over use of AI in peer review - Tom Williams, Times Higher Ed
A poll by IOP Publishing found that there has been a big increase in the number of scholars who are positive about the potential impact of new technologies on the process, which is often criticised for being slow and overly burdensome for those involved. Z total of 41 per cent of respondents now see the benefits of AI, up from 12 per cent from a similar survey carried out last year. But this is almost equal to the proportion with negative opinions which stands at 37 per cent after a 2 per cent year-on-year increase.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
First-of-its-kind AI tool to save 75% of academics’ time - Sara AlKuwari, University World News
White House AI Task Force Positions AI as Top Education Priority - Julia Gilban-Cohen, GovTech
Monday, September 22, 2025
How to use ChatGPT at university without cheating: ‘Now it’s more like a study partner’ - the Guardian
According to a recent report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, almost 92% of students are now using generative AI in some form, a jump from 66% the previous year. “Honestly, everyone is using it,” says Magan Chin, a master’s student in technology policy at Cambridge, who shares her favourite AI study hacks on TikTok, where tips range from chat-based study sessions to clever note-sifting prompts. “It’s evolved. At first, people saw ChatGPT as cheating and [thought] that it was damaging our critical thinking skills. But now, it’s more like a study partner and a conversational tool to help us improve.”
OpenAI's fix for hallucinations is simpler than you think - Webb Wright, ZDnet
Sunday, September 21, 2025
AI a 'Game Changer' for Assistance, Q&As in NJ Classrooms - Brianna Kudisch, GovTech
An explosion of startups and established companies are offering slick new AI products and targeted training to educators and school administrators. For instance, the nation’s second largest teachers’ union recently announced a $23 million initiative with Microsoft and OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company, to provide free access to AI and training to all American Federation of Teachers members, starting with K-12 educators.
https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/ai-a-game-changer-for-assistance-q-as-in-nj-classrooms
Gemini for Education catching on with higher ed, Google says - Edscoop
Saturday, September 20, 2025
The Perceived Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Academic Learning - Mariana Dogaru, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Got AI skills? You can earn 43% more in your next job - and not just for tech work - Webb Wright, ZDnet
Friday, September 19, 2025
Did OpenAI just solve hallucinations? - Matthew Berman, YouTube
Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’ - Julie Bort, Tech Crunch
He then live-analyzed his reasoning. “I think there are a bunch of things going on: real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very ‘it’s so over/we’re so back’ extremism, optimization pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetization works, other companies have astroturfed us so i’m extra sensitive to it, and a bunch more (including probably some bots).” To decode that a little, he’s accusing humans of starting to sound like LLMs, even though LLMs — spearheaded by OpenAI — were literally invented to mimic human communication, right down to the em dash.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake/
Thursday, September 18, 2025
AI Teaching Learners Today: Pick Your Pedagogy! - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
How should universities teach leadership now that teams include humans and autonomous AI agents? - Alex Zarifis, Times Higher Education
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Georgia Tech’s Jill Watson Outperforms ChatGPT in Real Classrooms - Georgia Institute of Technology
OPINION: AI can be a great equalizer, but it remains out of reach for millions of Americans; we cannot let that continue - Erin Mote, Hechinger Report
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
AI for Next Generation Science Education - Xiaoming Zhai, Georgia Tech
Tech leadership is business leadership - McKinsey
Monday, September 15, 2025
Duke University pilot project examining pros and cons of using artificial intelligence in college - AP
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement - Kate Knibbs, Wired
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Should AI Get Legal Rights? - Kylie Robeson, Wired
Responsible AI in higher education: Building skills, trust and integrity - Alexander Shevchenko, World Economic Forum
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Why liberal arts schools are now hopping on skills-based microcredentials - Alcino Donadel, University Business
New market demands are pushing small, four-year liberal arts colleges to offer microcredentials, indicating growing momentum across sectors of higher education to elevate workforce readiness within their academic offerings. Chief learning officers at community colleges are leading the charge in expanding non-degree offerings, reporting the highest levels of institutional investment in this area. Meanwhile, large research universities—like the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville—are catching up. However, strict faculty governance and curriculum processes and different accreditation standards have caused some liberal arts schools to lag, says Mike Simmons, an associate executive director at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
Academics must be open to changing their minds on acceptable AI use - Ava Doherty, Times Higher Education
Friday, September 12, 2025
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students - University of Oxford
The University of Oxford will become the first university in the UK to provide free ChatGPT Edu access to all staff and students, starting this academic year. OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and controls. This university-wide rollout follows a successful year-long pilot involving around 750 academics, research staff, postgraduate research students and professional services staff in a wide range of roles across the University and Colleges.
Navigating the AI Revolution in Higher Education - Alyse Jordan, Frontiers in Education
A systematic review conducted in the first nine months following ChatGPT's release provides valuable early insights into how AI has affected teaching, curriculum design, and assessment practices in higher education. The review identified both benefits and threats of AI integration, offering preliminary evidence to inform institutional policies and faculty practices (Liang et al., 2025). As the authors note, this represents "a first wave" of research, acknowledging how quickly AI systems are evolving and changing educational landscapes.Additionally, in specialized fields such as Mechanical Engineering Education (MEE), AI integration demonstrates unique applications and challenges. Research shows that AI significantly enhances learning experiences through technologies like computer-aided translation and natural language processing, making education more accessible and interactive.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1682901/abstract
 
