At the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) in West Point, New York, where academic integrity and pedagogical rigor are foundational, initial guidance on generative AI was introduced in 2023. While it emphasized the importance of integrity and instructor-specific policies, the use of generative AI remained decentralized and varied across disciplines (Reeves, 2023). Given this context, faculty members across five academic programs initiated a collaborative, multiyear research project to track the adoption, utility, and implications of generative AI in student-driven research activities. This study aims to document and analyze the technological engagement and ethical considerations among cadets from the class of 2024 through the class of 2029.
Thursday, July 02, 2026
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Healthcare, Manufacturing, Recycling and Education - Tech Business News
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future-facing technology sitting inside research labs. It is now being used in doctor’s offices, classrooms, factories, recycling plants, semiconductor research facilities and government departments. The real shift is not just that AI can generate text, images or code. The bigger change is that AI systems are now being connected to daily decision-making, physical infrastructure and professional workflows. That makes the technology more useful, but also more difficult to manage. Across industries, AI is being used to detect disease, support teachers, predict machine failures, sort waste, discover new semiconductor materials, analyse risk, automate service desks and assist with policy planning. At the same time, it is raising hard questions about bias, privacy, security, accountability and whether people can understand how an AI system reached its answer.
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
The Next 5 Years: A Supersonic Tsunami - Peter H. Diamandis, Metatrends
Elon described the near future as a “supersonic tsunami”: a wave moving so fast and so large that by the time you hear it coming, it has already broken over you. The phrase stuck with me. So let me lay it out in detail, with the actual numbers, because I don’t think most people have any real sense of what the next 60 months hold. Buckle up. Start with the price of intelligence, because it is collapsing faster than anything in the history of technology. According to the Stanford AI Index, the cost of tokens dropped 280x collapse in 24 months. For frontier models, the price has been dropping about 10x every single year, from $20 to about $0.40 per million tokens. Not 10% cheaper. Ten times cheaper, annually.
Re-educating graduates for the competitive job market - Amber Wang, University World News
As another record number of university graduates enter China’s job market this month, authorities are increasingly encouraging both students and unemployed graduates to be “re-educated” through vocational and skills-based training. Across China, cities and provinces are offering “technician class” programmes aimed at improving employment outcomes among young people. With strong backing from local governments, initiatives typically combine vocational education with internships and job placement opportunities in strategic industries. Local authorities in Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Anhui, together with vocational institutions, have recently launched a range of full-time training programmes as well as shorter subsidised skills courses.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
How universities are preparing students for an AI-powered future - Marta McAlister, Google Keyword Blog
Virginia Tech is providing access to AI tools — such as Gemini for Education and Notebook LM — which their IT Security Office approved for use with high-risk data to help ensure institutional information remains protected. UC Riverside introduced a secure campus AI assistant called The Grove, built on Gemini Enterprise. UC Irvine approved Google Workspace, Google Cloud Platform and Gemini for Education for secure use with select sensitive institutional data and then put those tools to work through ZotGPT, a free AI platform featuring Gemini among its models, available to the entire campus community.
Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact - Jeffrey Gottfried et al, Pew Research
About half of U.S. adults now report using AI chatbots, up substantially from the summer of 2024.1 This includes roughly one-in-four who use these tools on daily basis.
Some people are bringing AI into their homes. About a third of Americans say they have a smart speaker, and smaller shares have a doorbell or thermostat with AI features.
But Americans —including younger adults— are deeply skeptical of AI. More adults predict that AI will have a negative rather than positive impact on them and on society. And majorities think AI is advancing too quickly and will put their personal information at risk.
Monday, June 29, 2026
Collective action, collective success: A CEO’s role in transformations - Kurt Strovink, Mathew Lee, Meagan Hill, and Michael BucyMcKinsey - McKinsey
Successful transformations require everyone in the organization to move in the same direction. That can only happen when CEOs directly address collective-action problems. Beyond managing the challenges that organizations face every day, most leaders strive to be transformative—to find new ways to deliver substantial impact and leave the company stronger than they found it. Yet only 30 percent of transformations deliver the value their leaders expect. There are many possible explanations for this statistic, among them unexpected market conditions, tough new competitors, technological disruptions, and a volatile geopolitical landscape. Such external factors are easy to understand. Less appreciated are the internal dynamics in organizations that can thwart even the most ambitious and well-intentioned leaders.
Medical students’ perceptions of learning modalities: development and psychometric validation of the e-learning and face-to-face learning experience questionnaire - Zahra Karimian, et al; Nature
The analysis revealed six primary factors influencing student learning experiences, including Peer Interaction, Teacher-Student Interaction, Examination and Assessment methods, Emotional Comfort, Content Quality, and Assignments. The highest factor loading was observed for peer interaction and collaborative learning.... The findings suggest that effective educational practices must integrate diverse teaching methods and assessment strategies to accommodate various learning styles. Both F2F and online environments offer unique advantages that can be leveraged through a blended approach. The study underscores the importance of creating inclusive and supportive learning environments that prioritize student comfort and engagement, ultimately enhancing educational outcomes.
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Risk, Retention, and the Algorithmic Institution: Artificial Intelligence as a Policy Response to Higher Education in Crisis - McConvey, Kelly;Ghai, Maya;Lee, Rosa;Guha, Shion; Canadian Public Policy, 2026, v. 52
This article examines the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in Ontario’s post-secondary education sector as a response to financial pressures stemming from federal immigration reforms and provincial funding constraints. It highlights how AI technologies—such as predictive analytics and early warning systems—are used for student retention, resource allocation, and program planning, but also raise significant concerns about bias, surveillance, and opacity, particularly affecting marginalized student populations. The analysis underscores the inadequacy of existing Canadian privacy laws and the failure of federal AI legislation (notably the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, AIDA) to provide comprehensive governance, calling instead for sector-specific regulation, human oversight, and equity-centered design inspired by international models like the European Union’s AI Act. The article concludes with policy recommendations for institutional, provincial, and federal levels to ensure AI systems in higher education align with democratic values of fairness, transparency, and accountability while mitigating risks of reinforcing inequities.
Authors, reviewers and editors should not be left to endure AI anxiety alone - Mai Zaki, Times Higher Ed
The arrival of generative artificial intelligence in academic research has produced something more disorienting than a simple ethical dilemma. It has created a situation in which every participant in scholarly publishing is being asked to make judgements that the system itself has not yet learned how to make. Authors are told to be transparent, reviewers to be vigilant, editors to protect integrity. But the result is not a new culture of clarity. It is a culture of suspicion. I experience this problem first as an author. Like many researchers, I do not approach AI as either a miracle or a threat. I approach it as a tool, whose boundaries remain strangely unclear. It can help with phrasing, structure, summaries, coding, translation, visualisation, brainstorming and literature mapping. Yet each of these uses occupies a different ethical position. Asking AI to polish a paragraph is not the same as asking it to generate an argument. Using it to produce a chart is not the same as using it to interpret data. Asking it to suggest possible lines of enquiry is not the same as outsourcing the intellectual work of the article.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Two Professors, Two Approaches to AI and Assignment Design - Luke Mello, Faculty Focus
All this considered, a question has arisen from teachers of every discipline: how do we develop assignments that facilitate learning with AI constantly present? This question does not have a single correct answer. Different instructors have different opinions on the role AI should play in education due to their discipline or personal teaching philosophy. I interviewed two professors of electrical engineering at my graduate university to get their points of view in the context of STEM classes. They were both professors that taught classes in my electrical and computer engineering undergraduate degree. I knew beforehand that these professors had differing views on the role of AI in their courses. The following interviews seek to show that even in the same disciplines, educators can have different approaches to their course and assignment design when it comes to AI
Opinion: Generating Some AI Clarity for Higher Ed and Beyond - Jim A. Jorstad, GovTech
The pace of development and proliferation of artificial intelligence tools - generative, agentic, physical - can be hard to follow, but IT leaders must do their best to stay apprised of potential innovations and risks. Some might say these are the best of times for artificial intelligence. Others might say these are the worst of times, if they're looking for a clearer understanding of the many forms of AI, its definitions and applications. Many IT professionals engaged in developing AI have a deeper technical understanding. However, there are faculty, staff, administrators and students who don’t have a clear understanding of the technology and how it may transform their education and future lives. Let me try to provide some basic understanding of the current AI terminology and offer some insights into its many applications in a variety of disciplines and situations.
Friday, June 26, 2026
Cal State faculty push to prevent AI tools from replacing them as schools and staff experiment - Mikhail Zinshteyn, Cal Matters
The nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk. Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools, but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground. The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear the Legislature as soon as Monday. “We do have some cases of the potential replacement of faculty work by AI, and so I personally am very concerned about closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out,” said Kevin Wehr, a professor of sociology at Sacramento State, which is part of the Cal State system. Wehr leads the bargaining team for the faculty union, the California Faculty Association.
The AI-centric imperative: Navigating the next software frontier - McKinsey
The software industry is entering a new era—and it may yet prove even more disruptive than the software-as-a-service (SaaS) revolution that preceded it. The emergence of gen AI and, more recently, agentic AI is not just another technology wave; it is a foundational shift redefining what software is, who builds it, who uses it, and how companies are organized and operate. Gen AI alone is projected to unlock $4.4 trillion or more in annual value across the global economy, with software companies poised to capture 10 to 15 percent of that total—and agentic AI may well accelerate the speed at which this value is realized. But capturing it is far from guaranteed, and incumbent companies will face heightened competitive intensity and complex new challenges.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
An augmented reality tool for accessible learning - Cindy Lam, Sai Kit Yeung, Kenichiro Takei; Times Higher Education
Combining GenAI with simple augmented reality tools offers a practical way to support accessible, adaptable and interdisciplinary learning. So, how can we make GenAI more intuitive, accessible and relevant across disciplines? One approach is to pair it with simple visual tools. GenAI-powered AquaReality cards offer a low-cost and scalable way to bring abstract concepts to life, while supporting interactive and interdisciplinary learning.
Why did China just junk 12,000 degree courses? They were ‘obsolete’ - Aamaan Alam Khan, the Print (India)
Universities have been prompted to end some courses due to a rise in the number of graduates and low employment opportunities. According to China’s education ministry data, cited by Xinhua, higher education institutions in the country scrapped 12,200 undergraduate degrees between 2021 and 2025, after finding them to be obsolete. These were replaced by 10,200 new courses that are more aligned with the demands of the job market. This move has affected over 30 per cent of the total degree programmes offered in China. Most of the suspended degrees are from the fields of humanities, arts, management, and foreign languages, which are now believed to have become outdated. The SCMP report said that the new programmes have been introduced keeping in mind China’s economic development goals, with nine of them focussed on integrating next-gen AI into the real economy.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Graduates’ AI fears fueled by universities - Erika Donalds, Washington Times
Commencement ceremonies traditionally inspire hope and excitement about the future — from both the graduates and the older generations sending the younger ones out into the world. Sadly, we saw the opposite this spring as the class of 2026 rejected progress and innovation by booing speakers’ mentions of artificial intelligence. Young Americans entering the most technologically competitive workforce in human history hear “artificial intelligence” and respond with fear and resentment rather than ambition and optimism.
Inside college AI cheating wars: extreme surveillance, false accusations, jarring confusion - Jaweed Kaleem. LA Times
While lock-down browsers and sharing screen videos are common in online exams, mirrors and body movement restrictions are more extreme. But students and experts said it is all a reflection of the chaos, confusion and fear a new technology has wreaked upon the classroom. “It just felt so degrading,” said Ashley, another UCLA sociology student who studied under the same professor, who required students to show their arms and hands. A UCLA junior, she said she faced accusations of plagiarism, incorrect citations and suspiciously short intervals for Google Docs time stamps after she said she drafted assignments in a separate notes app and pasted them in the day they were due. Online message boards are full of student complaints about policies gone too far, such as proctoring software that uses keystroke patterns, eye-movement tracking or facial scans to detect if students are using AI prompts.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Study finds detectors struggle to accurately identify amount of AI content when papers have been partially human written - Georgia Luckhurst, Times Higher Education
For the study, published in Education and Information Technologies, researcher Lucky E. Atamhenwan fed 81 sample essays into Turnitin. The scripts ranged from those that were 100 per cent LLM-generated – either by ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini – to those written solely by people. Turnitin did not flag any of the essays that were 100 per cent human written as being generated by AI. And in every instance in which the detector flagged AI-generated words, it was indeed due to the presence of LLM-generated work in those samples. But the software struggled with the scripts that were partially AI-written, consistently failing to identify the correct percentage of LLM-generated work included.
The race to reimagine higher education: How Canadian universities can lead the AI transformation. - Joël Blit, University Affairs
Universities are among the most durable institutions human beings have ever created. While a scholar from the Middle Ages might have found parts of the modern campus bewildering, they would still recognize the basic form: experts at the front of rooms, students organized into courses, knowledge divided into disciplines, credentials awarded after examinations. For all the technological change around them, universities have remained remarkably stable because their core product has always depended on something difficult to capture and mechanise: expert tacit knowledge. For that same reason, they are now about to be transformed. The real significance of artificial intelligence is not that it can write essays, summarize documents, or answer emails. It is that, for the first time in history, machines can capture tacit knowledge: the practical, experience-based know-how that experts possess but cannot fully explain. It is this tacit knowledge that has made doctors, lawyers, professors, and other experts so valuable in the current economy. Machines could not do what we ourselves could not write down. Machine learning changed that.
Monday, June 22, 2026
Leading the Era of AI - Michael Malone, Higher Ed Dive
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has pushed higher education to a crossroads, and a paradigm shift is required. Universities who expect to lead in this new AI-shaped landscape must reimagine higher education as a hyper-personalized journey for students, enabled by AI, interactive data, predictive analytics, and adaptive technologies from end to end. Integrating AI into every fiber of the educational experience is essential to this approach. Yet it begs a complement, one that emphasizes “human judgment in the AI era” to foster leaders who don’t just follow AI-driven outputs, but possess the critical thinking and judgment to explain, defend, or override them.
A framework for ensuring student AI proficiency - Margaret Ellis, Times Higher Education
Over the past few semesters, I have structured my teaching around a framework that helps students build that capability: demystify, use and reflect. Many students arrive with strong opinions about AI but only a partial understanding of how these systems work. Some see them as nearly magical tools that can produce answers instantly. Others dismiss them as unreliable or assume they are only useful for technical specialists. Demystifying AI begins with explaining the basic ideas behind large language models (LLMs) and related systems. We show students how these models are trained, what kinds of data they rely on and why their outputs can sometimes appear confident even when they are incorrect.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Americans looking for proof of the value of higher ed - Matt Zalaznick, University Business
Americans need some convincing about the true value of higher ed. They “haven’t given up on college,” but institutions need to prove that what students learn will lead to civic and economic opportunities, says a new analysis. And the most important place to provide that evidence is in the communities surrounding campus, says the report, “Trust in Higher Education Starts Local,” from C&S (Campus and Community Solutions), a civic education nonprofit.“Higher ed doesn’t have a PR problem. It has a proof problem,” says the organization that surveyed more than 2,400 adults in the U.S. to examine attitudes toward colleges and universities—and to chart a path forward.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Reimagining What Higher Education Can Be - Kristen Turner, Drew University
Students increasingly need skills that extend beyond traditional academic disciplines. They need to learn how to collaborate, solve complex problems, and adapt to new challenges. Drew’s new college is designed to address those realities. Rather than focusing solely on course credits and exams, students develop personalized learning pathways built around inquiry, mentorship, and real-world problem solving. They work on projects connected to community partners, explore interdisciplinary questions, and build portfolios that demonstrate their abilities. The goal is not simply to complete assignments. It is to develop the habits of mind that allow students to navigate an uncertain and evolving world. “We want students to prototype their lives,” Turner says. “To try things, explore their interests, and discover what they want to pursue.”
Transforming Enrollment Managementin the Field of Online Learning - Vickie S. Cook, OLC Online Learning Journal
The landscape of enrollment management in higher education related to all modalities of learning is undergoing a significant transformation driven by evolving student expectations, shifting demographics, and the necessity for institutions to optimize operational efficiency. Traditionally centered on human-driven processes and relational strategies, enrollment management for online learning enterprises must now integrate advanced technologies such as Business Process Automation (BPA) and artificial intelligence (AI) to remain effective and competitive. This manuscript for online learning administrators and enrollment management leaders will explore the systems-level continuum from Business Process Mapping (BPM) to AI-driven functionality, highlighting the strategic evolution of enrollment operations within the field of online learning.
Friday, June 19, 2026
The Price Enterprises Will Pay for Anthropic Claude Fable 5 - Esther Sittu, AI Business
As it continues to target cybersecurity, AI lab Anthropic on Tuesday introduced two new models, demonstrating how it is improving capabilities such as reasoning and providing tools to help cyber defenders. Claude Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model, according to Anthropic -- a reference to the original Mythos, which is still in restricted release due to its reputed ability to easily find and exploit security holes in software. While the model is adept at cybersecurity tasks, Anthropic has restricted its use due to the risk of misuse as a cyber threat.
Coursera Launches Its Short-Form Content With AI Curation - Edited by Adam Harrie, this article was written with the assistance of AI; Trend-Hunter
Coursera introduced a scrollable short-form content feed that delivers bite-sized educational videos and explainers, featuring AI-driven personalization tailored to users’ interests, learning habits, career goals and previous course activity. The company positioned the feature as an entry point to deeper learning experiences rather than a replacement for full-length courses and certification programs.The feed surfaces content across subjects such as coding, data science, business, productivity and personal development, while continuously adapting recommendations based on user engagement and learning behavior. The design mirrors recommendation-driven content platforms, emphasizing discoverability and short-form learning experiences.
Thursday, June 18, 2026
California State University renews $13 million ChatGPT deal as survey finds most students and faculty doubt AI helps education - Curtis Deacon, Yahoo! News
California State University is pressing ahead with ChatGPT even though many of the students and faculty it expects to use the tool say they are not persuaded that it is making education better. According to a report from Futurism, the university system recently extended its OpenAI agreement at $13 million a year despite a large campus survey showing that most students and faculty remain skeptical of AI's overall value in the classroom.
Data Center Operators Are Trying to Fix Their Water Use Problems - Molly Taft, Wired
On Monday, SpaceX amended its initial public offering to state that water conditions—including water scarcity, regulations around water, and drought—could constrain data center development. It isn’t the only tech company trying to assess how water scarcity might impact its business. Water use is emerging as one of the most contentious data center issues. A recent Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans are opposed to data center development, with water scarcity ranking as the top resource concern. Facing increasingly fierce resistance, some tech companies are scrambling to assure the public that they’re facing the issue head-on. By signing up, you agree to our user agreement (including class action waiver and arbitration provisions), and acknowledge our privacy policy.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
University of Phoenix researchers publish study examining doctoral students' attitudes toward AI chatbots and ChatGPT use in higher education - University of Phoenix
Researchers from the University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies have published new peer-reviewed research examining graduate students' attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and their reported use of ChatGPT in higher education environments. The article, "Relationship between Students' Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their usage of AI Chatbots," appears in the International Journal of AI in Pedagogy, Innovation, and Learning Futures, 2026(1). The quantitative study explored how doctoral students perceive AI chatbots in relation to academic integrity, ethics and educational value. Researchers surveyed 54 doctoral students enrolled at a private, online university in the United States to better understand how attitudes toward AI tools may influence reported usage patterns. The findings suggest that favorable attitudes toward AI chatbot use, perceptions that chatbot-generated results are superior and disagreement with prohibiting chatbot use were positively correlated with reported ChatGPT usage frequency. Researchers also found significant differences across fields of study, while no statistically significant gender differences were observed.
AI Investment Will Hit 2% Of U.S. GDP This Year, Analyst Says—Nearing Defense Spending Levels - Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes
New analysis from TS Lombard shows the United States is on track to devote approximately 2% of gross domestic product to artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure in 2026, an investment well above that of any other major country that places it among the largest concentrated spending booms in modern U.S. history.
TS Lombard, an economic research and investment strategy firm, predicts the U.S. will be responsible for more than 80% of an $800 billion global spend in the sector this year and that AI buildout is on track to surpass the Gilded Age’s so-called “Railway Mania” to become the biggest infrastructure project in US history.
Other estimates from Bridgewater Associates, Goldman Sachs and Lombard Odier also place projected AI infrastructure spending between $650 billion and $800 billion this year—equivalent to roughly 2% to 2.5% of the U.S. economy.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
GAIT Fellows explore the use of AI in the classroom - Heather Skyler, UGA News
The Generative AI & Teaching Faculty Fellows program brought together 15 faculty members during the 2025-2026 academic year to develop, test and assess innovative classroom applications of generative AI. Through workshops, collaborative sessions and individualized support from teaching and learning specialists, fellows created AI-supported teaching projects aimed at improving student learning and engagement. Each fellow received a $3,000 stipend to support professional development or teaching resources, and the program culminated in the Generative AI and Teaching Colloquium, where participants shared their projects and sparked broader conversations about the future of AI-enhanced education at UGA.
California Colleges Must Add What AI Cannot Provide: Universal Leadership Education - Marty Treinen, Palm Springs Tribune
In the age of artificial intelligence, what must higher education become? And just as important: who should higher education be for? The answer can no longer be limited to traditional students, full-time degree seekers, or those who can afford the rising cost of opportunity. If California is going to lead the future, its colleges and universities must help open the door to everyone willing to develop themselves, improve their lives, and serve their communities. That includes high school students preparing for adulthood, college students seeking direction, working adults changing careers, entrepreneurs building something real, retirees and seniors with experience to contribute, the unemployed and underemployed, people with disabilities, veterans, immigrants, minorities, underserved communities, and every person who has never been offered a real pathway to leadership. That is the promise of Universal Leadership Education.
Monday, June 15, 2026
UNC to Partner With Public Libraries for Statewide AI Study - GovTech
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will partner with public libraries across the state to study local responses to AI and develop tailored approaches to improving AI literacy. North Carolina’s public libraries will help shape new approaches to artificial intelligence literacy statewide through a new university research initiative at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Starting this summer and running through 2028, the two-year Local Libraries and Generative AI project will bring university researchers and local librarians together to study how different communities across the state are using generative AI, and how libraries can support residents in understanding and using the technology responsibly, according to a news release yesterday.
How AI is quietly changing what we think the human mind is on the deep differences between human minds and artificial ones - Shai Tubalig, Big Think
For all its alienness, however, Seth is convinced that the octopus remains our genuine kin, in a way AI may never be. What puzzles him is how easily our fascination with machines can eclipse this kinship. As a neuroscientist and professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Seth has spent a lot of time thinking about how humans have come to liken themselves to AI systems. “It’s a two-way mirror in a sense,” Seth tells Big Think. “We see ourselves through the lens of the things that we create.” In academia, Seth says, the brain has long been imagined as a kind of computer. Now that AI systems seem smart and can talk to us, this old metaphor may seem far more concrete, galvanizing the idea that perhaps “that’s nothing more than we are.” You can also see this idea in responses to claims that large language models are “stochastic parrots” — systems that can generate human-like language by calculating statistical probabilities but without truly grasping the meaning.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Most K-12 teachers say AI's impact on education will eclipse the internet or computers - Lee V. Gaines, NPR
The effects of artificial intelligence on learning are still largely unclear. But a new NPR/Ipsos poll of K-12 teachers found that nearly 3-in-4 believe AI has bigger implications for education than past innovations like the internet or computers. The nationally representative poll surveyed 545 respondents and paints a complex picture of teachers' views on AI: Many are using it to save time and improve their teaching materials, but a majority of teachers are worried AI is making it harder for students to learn to think for themselves.
Dual dimensions of artificial intelligence use among medical academia: related knowledge, attitudes and ethical concerns, a national survey, 2025 - Doaa Ibrahim Omar, Nature
AI integration into medical education and practice has its benefits and risks. This national web-based cross-sectional survey on Egyptian medical staff and students aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and concerns regarding the use of AI. This study comprised 2765 medical students and 500 medical staff, with a mean age of 20.8 and 29.9 years, respectively, and higher percentages of females among both groups. Medical students demonstrated satisfactory knowledge of AI compared to medical staff (p < 0.001). Unfortunately, the majority of both groups (80.4% of staff and 81.6% of students) expressed negative attitudes toward AI use. Male participants had significantly higher attitude scores than females in both groups.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
California State Bet Big on AI. Now Campuses Are Fighting Back - Temaz Tra, Meme Burn
CSU signed a major deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT Edu access to students, faculty, and staff. Critics say the rollout came during budget pressure, layoffs, and deep confusion over AI rules. The story matters for South African universities too, as campuses from Cape Town to Johannesburg face the same AI trade-off. The real fight isn’t just about ChatGPT. It’s about who controls education when tech platforms move into the classroom.
Congressional committee examines higher education's role in teaching students to use AI - Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL
Utah Rep. Burgess Owens asked several education experts about the impacts artificial technology will have on college students during a committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday. Owens, who chairs the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, spoke of the potential benefits of using AI in education but said academic institutions should ensure students learn the skills necessary to succeed in an increasingly AI-driven workforce, without sacrificing other learning. The challenges presented by the new technology are "significant," he said.
Friday, June 12, 2026
Opinion: Moving Beyond AI Policies in Higher Education - Quimby Kaizer and Saravanan Subbaraya, Gov Tech
Every spring, college and university leaders watch another graduating class walk across the stage. It is a moment worth celebrating. Students worked hard. Faculty did their best to educate them. Families made sacrifices. And yet, for many presidents, provosts and chief academic officers standing at the podium this month, a central question remains: Are we leveraging AI effectively to both empower students and evolve how our institutions operate? This is both the challenge and the opportunity facing higher education, as headlines increasingly reflect parents and students questioning whether college is financially worth it.
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/opinion-moving-beyond-ai-policies-in-higher-education
University of Maine System to launch shared AI tool to accelerate student, institutional success - Bangor Daily News
The University of Maine System is leading the nation in preparing students for the modern workforce and improving organizational effectiveness with the investment and responsible integration of a shared AI tool. Maine’s largest educational and research enterprise and one of the state’s biggest employers has awarded its first System-wide enterprise artificial intelligence platform contract to ChatGPT Edu from OpenAI. Under the two-year agreement that will begin July 1, every UMS faculty member, staff member and matriculated student will have access to ChatGPT Edu, which was developed specifically for use in higher education settings, though whether and how they use it will be entirely up to them.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Dreaming: Better memory for a more helpful ChatGPT - OpenAI
Today we’re beginning to roll out a more capable and scalable system for synthesizing memory, developed to tackle the staleness, correctness, and scalability challenges that we observe when memory is applied to the hundreds of millions of users and multi-year time horizons in ChatGPT. Memory is what helps ChatGPT learn your preferences, projects, and constraints, allowing future conversations to start from shared context rather than from scratch. Over the last two years, memory has grown into a critical part of the ChatGPT experience, helping ChatGPT better understand your context so it can help you accomplish meaningful goals over time. This is central to making ChatGPT more useful: knowing you, helping you, and doing more for you.
The board’s role in managing emerging AI risks - McKinsey
During a recent panel discussion, McKinsey and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) gathered top chief information security officers (CISOs) and board directors, highlighting four priorities for effective oversight: strengthening governance and accountability, balancing innovation with risk, building real-time risk-management capabilities, and improving AI fluency in the boardroom. Together, these shifts signal that AI is no longer just a technology topic; it is now a core enterprise risk and strategic differentiator (see sidebar, “On the street: Sights and sounds from the world’s largest cybersecurity conference”).
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
AI isn’t eliminating gender gaps. It’s reorganizing them - Richard J. Smith, Ed.D., and Madeline Weiler, University Business
In the higher education workforce, women are overrepresented in office and clerical staff positions. They often occupy student-facing roles such as academic advising, which are relationship-focused positions with limited advancement opportunities. Not only are women far more likely to experience job displacement as administrative tasks are automated, but they are also less likely to hold the technical and decision-making roles that influence how AI is designed and deployed. Consequently, women are often positioned downstream of AI systems they did not build and cannot govern. Efficiency alone cannot guide effective AI strategies. Instead, leaders must advance technology and equity simultaneously. University policies should include safeguards to help ensure that employees are not quietly devalued through AI adoption.
AI Raises the Stakes for College Internships - Abby Sourwirne, GovTech
Internship postings on Handshake, a career networking site for college students and graduates, declined by more than 15 percent between January 2023 and January 2025, while the share of graduating students who applied to at least one internship rose from 34 percent to 41 percent. Yet even as internships grow harder to find, they're also becoming more important. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, internship experience with an employer’s organization or industry is among the most influential factors when employers choose between otherwise equally qualified candidates.Some colleges and universities are meeting this problem by providing credits for work experience, revamping on-campus work opportunities or directly partnering with local employers. If they don't, some workforce and higher-education experts warn, students will be left behind.
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Will AI Help Revive the ‘Stale’ OPM Market? - Kathryn Palmer, Inside Higher Ed
Over the past few years, OPMs—including Coursera, iDesign and 2U—have adopted AI-powered features designed to enhance support for instructors and students through coaching, content creation, tutoring and curriculum mapping. According to an April analysis, 70 percent of OPMs are now deploying AI for such purposes. But experts are skeptical that the AI boom will have a big payoff for the beleaguered OPM market, which is attempting to rebound with the help of private equity after years of declining revenues, reputational damage and mounting government scrutiny.
AI Didn’t Break the University. It Revealed What Was Already Broken - Samuel J. Abrams, RealClear Education
I have argued in these pages before that AI itself is not the cause of the crisis; that blaming the chatbot for cheating and the LLM for loneliness is like blaming the calculator for poor math pedagogy. The deeper failure is institutional, and it preceded the technology. As I wrote here in March, the scarce resource in higher education is no longer knowledge but the human encounter itself. The most penetrating response to Hendrick’s essay confirms that and it did not come from another professor; it came from a 49-year-old graduate student named Norma Sancho, writing in the comments. Her reply has since circulated on its own, and it deserves to be read widely.
Monday, June 08, 2026
Are academics making an (em) dash for AI? - Times Higher Education
In the four years since its commercial launch, generative artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on personal and professional life. But are academics enthusiasts or sceptics? Five scholars explain how the technology has affected their own practice – for good and bad. Artificial intelligence writing is instantly recognisable, we are told—soulless, dispassionate, and devoid of the spark that marks genuine thought. Historian Jonathan Rees, in Academe this spring, calls it “bland, unspecific, pedestrian prose”. Journalist and UCL academic Sarfraz Manzoor, in a recent piece for The Independent, concluded that an AI article his students read was “competent but forgettable”. Scroll through r/professors on any given day and you will find dozens, if not hundreds, of colleagues enthusiastically nodding along and complaining bitterly about students submitting work that any fool can see was written by a machine.
Here’s how AI is driving the real revolution in higher education - Onur Bakiner, Seattle Times
What is education supposed to be like in the age of AI? The debate could not be more polarized: According to some, responsible educators should prepare students for artificial intelligence with AI, lest those students find themselves undesirable in the workplace of the future; others believe that the incursion of AI into education is destroying critical thinking skills, and consequently, learning itself. Boosters see in AI the combination of unprecedented opportunity and peril; critics say they have seen hyped-up educational technologies too many times before. The best is yet to come; the worst is yet to come; or maybe, we’ll spend enormous time and money just to stay where we are.
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Dismissing AI is not critical thinking. It’s intellectual closure = Zach Rossmiller, University Business
As a chief information officer, I have the privilege of interacting with students in many different settings, and conversations about artificial intelligence have become increasingly common.Recently, I read several student reflections explaining why they refuse to use generative AI in their coursework. Some described it as environmentally destructive, pointing to water and energy consumption that disproportionately harms vulnerable communities. Others called it a form of cheating, no different than passing off someone else’s work as your own. Several argued that the entire point of education is the struggle itself, and that outsourcing that struggle to a language model defeats the purpose of being in school.
Is AI Killing User Experience? - Scott A. Snyder and Mike Welsh, Knowledge at Wharton
A product manager can describe a workflow and get a working prototype. A strategist can turn a client’s rough concept into a clickable experience before the meeting ends. A founder with no technical background can “vibe code” a beta version of their product for an investor pitch. This is not a small shift. It compresses time, lowers barriers, and gives more people the ability to participate in creation. For organizations trying to move faster, it feels like a gift. Yet the customers on the receiving end are not sold. Despite the perceived gains in speed and personalization, only 17% of consumers believe their experiences are getting better, according to a March 2026 Medallia report. A separate February 2026 Pega study found that more than 60% of consumers lack confidence in how businesses use AI to interact with them.
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-ai-killing-user-experience/
Saturday, June 06, 2026
Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers - Alejandro Salinas, et al; SSRN
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly promoted as educational tutors, yet most evaluations focus on domains with a single ground truth. Many disciplines, however, hinge on judgment: reasoning, weighing ambiguity, and reaching defensible conclusions. Law provides a sharp test. We conducted a blinded evaluation of short-answer tutoring in contracts courses with sixteen U.S. law professors. Participants created 40 representative questions, wrote answers, and judged 2,918 anonymized comparisons between human and LLM responses. Professors rated LLMs far higher than their peers (average win rate = 75.33%), with models performing similarly to the best instructor. LLM responses were also rarely flagged as harmful (3.53% vs 12.06% for professors). Preferences for LLM answers were consistent across evaluators and reflected shared professional standards. Our evaluation can be reliably extended to additional models by employing a separate LLM as a judge, rendering expert agreement an effective, scalable method to evaluate AI tutors in judgment-rich domains.
How Personalized AI Tutors Can Help Students Learn - Emma Needleman, Knowledge at Wharton
The researchers built an AI tutoring platform that gives all students access to the same gen AI chatbot and course materials, but varies the sequence in which practice problems are assigned. In a five-month Python course across 10 Taipei high schools, students were randomly assigned to one of two groups: One received a standard sequence of problems progressing from easy to hard, while the other received a personalized sequence, in which an algorithm adjusted problem difficulty based on each student’s performance and interactions with the AI tutor. Because everything else was held constant, this design isolates the impact of personalized homework.
Friday, June 05, 2026
Agentic AI and job skills. How will agentic AI reshape the workforce? - McKinsey
In this video, McKinsey Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin and Special Adviser Eric Lamarre, authors of Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI (Wiley, April 2026), discuss what’s real—and what isn’t—about AI-driven workforce disruption. The authors reflect on how AI is changing the kinds of skills organizations value most and what business leaders need to do now to build teams and capabilities that can keep pace with an AI-enabled enterprise. “The core issue is that we’ve really got to think about how organizations are going to work fundamentally differently,” says Smaje.
White House Aims to Establish Political Oversight of Federal Grants - Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed
The White House is advancing a sweeping rule change that would give administration officials more power over billions of dollars in federal grants. The regulations seek to codify that Trump officials have the right to keep doing what they started last year: canceling thousands of grants that they said didn’t align with the president’s priorities, and shooting down new ones for the same reason. The proposed rules would set up a process for this political review, possibly helping insulate it from legal challenges that stymied the administration in the past. Among many other changes, the rules direct “senior appointees” at federal agencies to take charge of awarding and terminating new and existing research grants and other federal awards—a change that reflects an August executive order.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
2026 EDUCAUSE The Impact of AI on Learning Assessment Report - Jenay Robert, EDUCAUSE
Few areas of higher education have been as passionately debated as learning assessment in the age of AI. Since the debut and rapid adoption of readily available generative AI chatbots, educators have grappled with how learning assessment would be impacted. By only surveying individuals who are currently doing the hands-on work of learning assessment, we can provide you with information about how the learning assessment landscape is changing in practice, not just in theory. Explore the full Impact of AI on Learning Assessment report: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2026/6/2026-educause-the-impact-of-ai-on-learning-assessment-report
AI Will Deliver Wisdom - Peter H. Diamandis, Metatrends
I’ve been thinking a lot about wisdom lately. Not intelligence. Not speed. Not raw compute. Wisdom. The thing we used to reserve for grandparents, philosophers, and tribal elders who’d seen enough life to know which paths lead to ruin. Here’s how I define it: wisdom is probabilistic pattern recognition across a vast number of lived experiences. When you go to the village elders and ask, “Which direction should I take?”, they don’t run equations. They draw on decades of watching people make choices and living with the consequences. They say, “If you go this way, based on everything I’ve seen, it won’t end well. Go this other way, and you have a real chance.” That accumulated experience, compressed into judgment, is what we call wisdom.
Wednesday, June 03, 2026
Generative AI use and misuse call for assessment reform in higher education - Igor Chirikov, Ivan Smirnov, and René F. Kizilcec, Science
The debate about the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on higher education is polarized. Some portray GenAI as normalizing cheating at scale (1), whereas others argue that misconduct patterns have changed little (2). These competing narratives underscore the need for reliable data on where GenAI use is concentrated and where misuse is most likely. Existing studies of GenAI adoption and perceptions in higher education provide useful early signals but often rely on small samples and lack measures designed to capture sensitive behaviors such as cheating across fields (3–5). We addressed this gap with survey data from 95,513 students in a representative sample of 20 major public researchintensive universities in the United States and an indirect method for estimating GenAI-assisted cheating across disciplines. We found substantial heterogeneity in GenAI use and misuse across disciplines and student groups. These patterns call for discipline-specific assessment reform, not blanket bans or universal detection regimes.
The largest study of AI use by undergrads is in, revealing disparities in access — and in cheating - Maya L. Kapoor, Berkeley News
The study, conducted in the spring of 2024, used data collected by Berkeley’s Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium, a group of research universities that collaborate on surveying students to improve higher education. About two-thirds of respondents said they used GenAI, and almost 40% used it monthly or even more frequently. What’s more, at least 9% of students who used AI reported using it to cheat. That number varied significantly by academic discipline, with more non-STEM students cheating with AI than STEM students. But the researchers caution that banning GenAI won’t stop cheating and may even harm students when they look for work in industries that expect AI proficiency.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
How Golden Gate’s big AI bet will energize fundamental changes - Alcino Donadel, University Business
At the height of California’s gold rush, a YMCA night school was founded to train students in gold assaying and assist Chinese immigrants with learning English. It marks the humble beginnings of Golden Gate University—and an enduring tale that inspires President Brent White to capitalize on a new national phenomenon.Golden Gate made three major announcements in April that emphasize the university’s radical embrace of artificial intelligence as a tool and societal force. It founded the School of Psychology to research how AI will transform human behavior. GGU Digital upgrades the university’s distance education platform with personalized, AI-assisted instruction. Lastly, nine new board members were introduced to help expand the university’s global footprint in emerging fields.
College students are booing commencement speakers celebrating AI, but the wave of hate hasn’t stopped them from using it to cheat on their exams - Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune
On one hand, they’ve made their ire toward the technology clear: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was met with hisses during his commencement remarks at the University of Arizona’s graduation ceremony on Sunday when he invoked the inevitability of a future with artificial intelligence. “The question is not whether AI will shape the world. It will,” Schmidt said, pausing for a moment as students booed. “The question is whether you will have shaped artificial intelligence.” But the outward disgust toward the AI boom doesn’t tell the full story of the 2026 graduating class’s relationship to AI. The same cohort is also adopting the technology at a rapid clip, with 57% of U.S. college students reporting using the AI tools in their coursework weekly, and 20% using it daily, according to the Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education study published last month. But where some see a contradiction, experts see a peek into the minds of young graduates—the first generation of college students to experience their four-year undergraduate experience with tools like ChatGPT, launched in late 2022, at their fingertips.
Monday, June 01, 2026
Should AI Nudge You or Tell You What to Do? - Stefanos Poulidis, Haosen Ge, Hamsa Bastani, and Osbert Bastani, Knowledge at Wharton
In general, AI guidance can fall into one of two categories: attention signals and action signals. Attention signals flag decisions that are important without offering a recommendation: “This is a critical decision: pay close attention.” Action signals go further and prescribe a specific action: “Here’s what you should do.” But which type of signal actually helps us make better decisions, especially when the AI is reliable and provides highly accurate advice? This question is increasingly relevant, as AI tools become better calibrated and consistently dependable. As this trend continues, we must ask: Are there costs to relying on AI too much, even when its advice is correct? We explored these questions in a study using chess — a setting where AI recommendations are trusted, accuracy is exceptionally high, and decision quality is easy to measure.
Higher education, stop policing AI. Know your students - Robert Mason, Rikard Jalkebro and Ziad Hani, University World News
The solution to AI in higher education is not more software. It is ‘knowing your student’ (KYS). The idea borrows from the banking sector’s ‘Know Your Customer’ regulatory and compliance process used to combat fraud. Banks do not solely rely on a single automated alert to determine suspicious behaviour. They build contextual understanding over time: patterns, histories, habits, inconsistencies and relationships. Universities should do the same. However, Know Your Students should not mean turning universities into compliance departments. It means using sustained teaching, feedback, mentoring and dialogue to understand how students actually learn.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Here are states’ 3 highest priorities in developing AI policy - Alcino Donadel, University Business
States are defining what AI will look like in practice across K12 and higher education, building policy infrastructure that reflects both the technology’s reach and its risks. A new national overview from the Education Commission of the States spells out how public officials are issuing guidance, installing guardrails and coordinating across sectors to align AI use with school strategy and workforce demand. Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio and Tennessee now require public school districts and postsecondary institutions to adopt formal policies governing acceptable AI use. At the same time, at least 35 states have issued some form of guidance ranging from short advisories to full frameworks. Taken together, these efforts converge on a shared set of priorities that promote human decision-making, student AI literacy, safety and data protection.
If Canvas Goes Down Again, What’s the Contingency Plan? - Lisa Anderson and Mairéad Martin, Inside Higher Ed
Faculty and administrators across the country, shaped by their experience adapting instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, knew what to do last week. Shifting the modality of instruction is not new for us. Instructors quickly improvised alternative assignments, delayed quizzes and exams, populated offline course materials, and adjusted timelines in order to keep learning moving forward. When it came time to notify students of these adjustments, however, a more fundamental issue became apparent. Many instructors came to discover they had no reliable way to contact their students outside the learning management system itself. Some did not know how to access their course rosters outside Canvas. Others teaching large online lectures encountered institutional email delivery limits. Many had no established communication pathways beyond LMS announcements.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Why Higher Education Needs Humanics - Michael J. Avaltroni, US News
In a world where artificial intelligence now permeates daily life and higher education, it has become essential to weave the human element throughout the delivery of instruction – particularly healthcare education.Enter humanics.The integration of humanics – often described as the study, understanding and development of key human qualities – represents a novel way to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in education, technology and the human component in an AI-driven world. It speaks to the urgent need to build healthcare teams that optimize all the advances in artificial intelligence with the humans in the middle – our students, clinicians and patients. It also speaks to the urgency to redefine higher education itself.
Grade inflation much higher in ‘AI-exposed’ degrees - Jack Groves, Times Higher Education
Drawing on publicly available data from a large research university in Texas, Igor Chirikov, a senior researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, examined the marks awarded to more than 500,000 students between 2018 and 2025. When these grade patterns were compared against syllabus data on the types of writing tasks used for assessment, it revealed the share of A grades in “AI exposed” courses rose by 13 percentage points, or 30 per cent, compared with the 2022 baseline. Overall grade point average rose by 0.12 points for “high-homework” courses in which AI could potentially complete the assessment, says the study, which was published as a working paper by Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education. Grade inflation occurred only in homework-based writing and coding tasks and was not found to the same extent in in-person examination, explains the study, which suggests the computing power of “AI [is] substituting for student effort specifically on the unsupervised assessments where instructors cannot observe the production of submitted work”.
Friday, May 29, 2026
Maine's Public University System on verge of Closing Deal for First System Wide AI Tool - Kristian Moravec, Central Maine
Maine’s public university system plans to award its first contract for an artificial intelligence platform to ChatGPT Edu, an OpenAI chatbot tool for higher education, the system told employees and students in an email Friday. The two-year contract will cost about $1.39 million and serve the system’s estimated 25,200 students and 5,600 employees, likely starting in July, according to Ryan Low, the system’s vice chancellor for finance and strategic AI integration. OpenAI’s winning bid, which was submitted by a vendor, Carasoft, is not yet set in stone.
Can colleges still deliver in the age of AI? One Ivy League school is investing $30 million to improve career outcomes - Jessica Dickler, CNBC
College students are increasingly worried about what an AI-driven jobs apocalypse could mean for their employment prospects. To that end, many colleges and universities are racing to recalibrate.
Even at nation’s most elite schools, the focus is shifting to career readiness. Fears that artificial intelligence will upend students’ future career plans are reverberating across college campuses. “Higher education needs to do better,” said Joseph Catrino, the inaugural director of Dartmouth’s Center for Career Design. “We need to do better for our students — we need to step up and help students be prepared.” The Ivy League college recently raised $30 million in endowed funds to support internship opportunities. Now students can access up to $6,500 during any term to help finance unpaid or underpaid internships. “This allows the student to explore and engage in a field that they normally wouldn’t be able to,” Catrino said.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Why Indiana University’s AI skills course is free - Pamela Whitten, University Businiess
Indiana University just gave away our most popular AI skills course by making it completely free and open to all, with no application or tuition required. Anyone who completes the course that we’ve come to know as GenAI 101 will earn an AI skills badge from our world-renowned Kelley School of Business at no cost.Our decision to make such a highly sought-after course available for free is rather unconventional for a major university. Tuition is one of the ways we pay the bills, yet we know that the ability to wisely work alongside artificial intelligence is too important of a skill to lock behind a paywall. When our faculty developed and launched GenAI 101 eight months ago, we could not fully predict the continuing and accelerating appetite for AI literacy among corporations, small businesses, state agencies, and universities across the country. They asked us to share it, and we have now done so by making the class freely available to anyone.
MIT president blames federal policy shifts for big drop in research on campus - Washington Post
MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned Thursday. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, MIT’s president, Sally Kornbluth, told the campus community in a video message, and the number of new federal research awards is also down more than 20 percent.“That is a striking loss for one of the most influential and productive research communities in the world,“ Kornbluth said.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists - Joshua Dzieza, the Verge
“It’s a huge burden on the peer-review system, which is already at the limit,” Degen said. “There’s just too many papers being published and there’s not enough peer reviewers, and if the LLMs make it so much easier to mass produce papers, then this will reach a breaking point.” Optimists about generative AI have high hopes for its ability to produce future scientific breakthroughs — accelerating discovery, eliminating most types of cancer — but the technology is currently undermining one of the pillars of scientific research, inundating editors and reviewers with an endless stream of papers. Paradoxically, the better the technology gets at producing competent papers, the worse the crisis becomes.
The AI assembly line: Strategic imperatives for CEOs - Gianmarco Cilento, Steffen Fuchs , and Varun Marya; McKinsey
Just as Ford’s production line transformed physical labor, agentic AI—systems that can act autonomously rather than just responding to prompts—is now reshaping cognitive work, including engineering design, supply chain planning, and risk assessment. (We will refer to agentic AI simply as “AI” throughout this article.) With AI, companies no longer need to depend solely on the judgment and availability of a small number of experts to make complex decisions or create sophisticated products. Instead, knowledge becomes broadly accessible to anyone with the right AI capabilities, accelerating decision-making, product customization, and other tasks once limited to experts.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Quantum’s bold promise: What business leaders need to know - Henning Soller and Sven Smit with Anna Heid, McKiney
For years, business leaders and corporate boards have viewed quantum computing (QC) as a threat—and for good reason: It has the potential to break today’s strongest encryptions. That moment, commonly known as Q-Day, will occur when quantum computers succeed in factoring exceptionally large numbers, undermining the math that public-key cryptography depends on. Though business leaders are keeping Q-Day top of mind, they are viewing QC through a new lens—less a threat and more an opportunity. Many are spurring their companies to experiment with QC now so that they will be ready to deploy it at scale once quantum computers become mainstream, which could happen within the next five years.
Landscape of Emerging Technologies in Higher Education: A Review - Sharin Jacob, Heather Miceli and Hannah Schneider, Digital Promise
This literature review explores the rapid integration of artificial intelligence in higher education, examining both institutional influences and instructional practices. It highlights how governance frameworks, resource allocation, and faculty attitudes shape access and responsible technology adoption. Pedagogically, the paper emphasizes the necessity of embedding AI literacy, critical evaluation, and ethical reasoning into curricula to prevent student overreliance on AI tools. Ultimately, institutions must balance innovation with accountability by carefully aligning AI tools with educational values to advance authentic learning.
Monday, May 25, 2026
The Third Wave of Online Education: Why AI-Powered Adaptive Learning Could Disrupt Universities, Corporate Training, and Workforce Development - Tim King, Solutions Review
The Third Wave of Online Education Has Begun. Artificial intelligence is beginning to fundamentally reshape education. Not simply classroom technology. Not digital homework systems. Not video-based e-learning platforms. Education itself. During a recent episode of Inside Jam, Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson sat down with Jonathan Cornelissen to discuss what may become one of the defining transformations of the next decade: the rise of AI-powered adaptive learning systems capable of personalizing education at scale. The discussion explored the evolution of online learning, enterprise AI upskilling, workforce disruption, higher education economics, AI-native tutoring systems, and the growing realization that traditional educational models may no longer align with the pace of technological change.
Quantum’s bold promise: What business leaders need to know - Henning Soller and Sven Smit with Anna Heid - McKinsey Quarterly
For years, business leaders and corporate boards have viewed quantum computing (QC) as a threat—and for good reason: It has the potential to break today’s strongest encryptions. That moment, commonly known as Q-Day, will occur when quantum computers succeed in factoring exceptionally large numbers, undermining the math that public-key cryptography depends on. Though business leaders are keeping Q-Day top of mind, they are viewing QC through a new lens—less a threat and more an opportunity. Many are spurring their companies to experiment with QC now so that they will be ready to deploy it at scale once quantum computers become mainstream, which could happen within the next five years.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
The AI industry is still in flux, and university programs are trying to keep up - Marketplace
Welcome to May — the job market is currently awash in fresh graduates looking for that first post-college job, and it’s not an easy task. The unemployment rate for young college graduates jumped to 5.6% at the end of last year, entry-level job postings in the U.S. are down by a third since 2023, and grads are even up against artificial intelligence outsourcing. At the same time, some universities, and the students within, are making a big bet on AI to secure their future. When Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, unveiled a new program in 2022 called “AI and decision-making,” students showed up. Professor Asuman Ozdaglar is an engineering professor and a deputy dean of academics at MIT. She joined “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal to discuss how universities are staying ahead of the curve with the labor market, and how professors think about teaching for an industry that’s still changing so rapidly. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
5 Things to Know About the Changing Cybersecurity Landscape in Higher Education - UMass Amherst
Recent incidents affecting institutions nationwide, including the widely used Canvas learning management system, have reinforced the importance of cybersecurity not only as a technical priority, but as a shared community responsibility. For Jeremy Pelegrin, Chief Information Security Officer at UMass Amherst, the conversation around cybersecurity today extends far beyond firewalls and software updates. It’s about protecting teaching and research, strengthening digital trust, and helping the university community develop habits that support a safer digital environment for everyone. “We have reached a point as a society where cybersecurity must be a responsibility for every person on the UMass campus,” Pelegrin said. “As we navigate through a changing landscape of threats and compliance requirements, it’s really about developing good cyber habits that can be applicable regardless of where the world is going to lead us.” As technology, artificial intelligence, and online threats continue to evolve, UMass Amherst is approaching digital safety as an ongoing partnership across campus. Here are five things the community should know about how the landscape is changing and how the university is adapting alongside it.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Assessing students when artificial intelligence is ubiquitous - Michelle Seref, Times Higher Education
If we continue to prioritise memorisation in an age of wall-to-wall information, we send the wrong message to our students and employers. Michelle Seref offers advice on assessment that builds critical thinking skills. For much of higher education’s modern history, assessment has followed a familiar formula: a midterm and a final exam, with a heavy emphasis on whether students can retain and reproduce information. That model made sense in a world where knowledge was scarce and expertise lived primarily in textbooks and lectures. That world no longer exists. With students’ early access to technology, they can find most information from Google, YouTube and, now, AI chatbots. The rapid rise of generative AI hasn’t made assessment obsolete, but it has made its misalignment impossible to ignore. The real question is no longer what students know, but how they think, decide, adapt and apply judgement. Yet many assessments still measure recall rather than application.
AI and the Employment Outlook for College Grads - Jim A. Jorstad, GovTech
It’s that time of the year when graduation ceremonies take place at colleges and universities throughout the country. Students will fill auditoriums, gymnasiums and stadiums, each with their own dreams and hopes of landing that ideal job they’ve been working toward. Some will have taken certification courses, served as researchers or graduate assistants, or participated in internships. Hopefully, they received the necessary education and training to be successful in their careers of choice. But they're among the first graduating classes to have had most of their college experience upended by artificial intelligence. What will be the impact of AI? Are students graduating with the necessary AI skills, and what kind of employment environment are they entering? I want to focus specifically on IT-related jobs, although many of the same hiring trends can be applied to other disciplines. Let’s consider what factors are affecting the job market, and what graduates may experience during their job and career search.
Friday, May 22, 2026
The Case for Data Centers in Space- McKinsey
Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on the potential role orbital data centers could play in meeting growing AI compute demand—and the technical and economic uncertainties that remain. Philip Johnston, a McKinsey alumnus and cofounder of orbital compute infrastructure provider Starcloud, believes that space-based systems could become a meaningful part of the future compute landscape. He recently spoke to McKinsey Partner Luca Bennici about how the space-based data center technology is evolving, the challenges involved, and what needs to happen for orbital data centers to become a viable complement to terrestrial infrastructure. The interview transcript has been edited for clarity and style.
From Restriction to Integration: Practical Strategies for Embracing AI in Online Courses - Taoufik Ennoure, Faculty Focus
Instead of prohibiting the use of AI, it is more effective to assign tasks that require students to use AI tools and then have them critically assess the outputs. In asynchronous online courses with less frequent instructor interaction, I have adopted a new approach to enhance engagement in weekly discussions. I ask students to use AI tools to generate practice questions and sample answers, allowing them to self-assess their understanding. Students then post their AI-generated questions and answers as original discussion posts, reflecting on which questions were most helpful and identifying any gaps in the tool’s knowledge. Additionally, they evaluate at least two other question/answer sets created by their peers. This method fosters a peer dialogue focused on critical assessment, reducing the instructor’s workload in creating every quiz while encouraging collaborative learning.
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Layoffs down from early '25 — except in this one field - Emma W. Thorne, Editor at LinkedIn News
Layoffs fell 50% from the first third of 2025 to the first third of 2026 — with one glaring exception. Tech was hit the hardest, laying off more than 85,000 workers in the first four months of the year, according to a new report out Thursday from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That's a 33% jump year-over-year. The main culprit? Artificial intelligence, which was the top-cited reason for the second month in a row. A separate release from the Labor Department showed continuing unemployment claims hit a two-year low last week.
‘Student Guide to AI’ returns for third year with a new focus: Human capabilities - Elon University News Bureau
“Human Wisdom for the Age of AI: A Field Guide to Cultivating Essential Skills”, a publication by Elon University, the American Association of Colleges and Universities and The Princeton Review, is provided to students and institutions free of charge. The new publication, “Human Wisdom for the Age of AI: A Field Guide to Cultivating Essential Skills,” helps students cultivate the human skills they need to thrive in a digital world, whether working with AI technologies or learning independently of those tools. The guide includes engaging and fun exercises on curiosity, critical and deep thinking, creativity, ethical perspectives, communication and relational skills, among others. Like the 2024 and 2025 editions, this year’s guide is provided to students and institutions free of charge and is available for download at: www.studentguidetoai.org. The guide draws on 10 voices across centuries and cultures — from Aristotle, Cicero and Descartes to Mencius and Ptahhotep — whose enduring insights into human judgment, creativity, ethics and wisdom take on new urgency as AI reshapes how we learn and work.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
AI risk to university jobs despite staff believing roles are safe - Juliette Rowsell, Times Higher Ed
University workers generally do not believe that their jobs will be taken by artificial intelligence in the short term but experts have warned against complacency, saying that automation may still be used as “justification” to cut roles anyway. While respondents to Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey expressed widespread concern about the impact of the tens of thousands of job losses across the UK sector, concerns over the effect of AI remain low. Asked: “Do you fear you will be made redundant within the next three years due to the rise of AI?” more than half (55 per cent) disagreed, with 17 per cent of these strongly disagreeing. Just under 5 per cent strongly agreed and 14 per cent said they agree, while a fifth (21 per cent) neither agreed or disagreed.
In an AI-driven world, the most important skills are still human - Eric Townsend, Inside Higher Ed
Across higher education, artificial intelligence is now embedded in everyday academic work, from early research to final drafts. For many students, it has become a default starting point. The urgent question is not whether students use AI, but how they use it—specifically, whether these tools are reinforcing learning or bypassing the cognitive work that leads to it. As AI accelerates core academic tasks, educators are confronting a central challenge: how to preserve depth, judgment and intellectual engagement in an environment optimized for speed.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Micro-credentials gain ground as focus shifts from degrees to skills - Enterprise AM
A university degree is no longer the only ticket to a career. Employers across the globe — and increasingly in Egypt — are placing more emphasis on practical skills and targeted expertise, fueling demand for short courses, professional certifications, and micro-credentials that offer faster and cheaper avenues into the labor market. Short courses, big gains: Micro-credentials — short, skills-focused programs granting a verified certificate or digital badge — are gaining ground in fast-changing sectors like tech, digital marketing, AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Programs span local training from the Information Technology Institute and the Digital Egypt Pioneers Initiative (DEPI) to global options like Google Career Certificates on Coursera and Udacity Nanodegrees, iCareer founder and CEO Akram Marwan tells EnterpriseAM. The shift reflects a broader rethink of education — less a one-time university experience, more a continuous process of reskilling. As technologies evolve faster than universities can adapt, workers and employers want cheaper, targeted ways to build job-ready skills, Marwan says. Lower-cost online programs and funded initiatives like DEPI are also widening access beyond Cairo and Alexandria, potentially expanding the pool for remote and digital jobs.
Monday, May 18, 2026
Education Department Finalizes AI Priorities - Georgina Mackie, Broadband Breakfast
Under the policy, schools and higher education institutions can use AI to expand computer science and AI coursework, integrate AI into instruction, and provide professional development for educators. The priority also encourages AI use for personalized learning, tutoring, and student support, including for students with disabilities and those below grade levelThe department said the policy is necessary to maintain U.S. competitiveness, stating it “must provide our Nation’s youth with opportunities to learn how to use AI technology effectively.” The final rule follows more than 300 public comments, reflecting both support for expanding AI literacy and concerns about privacy, safety, and student development.
Bringing the AI-Active Lesson to Life in Higher Education - Adam Stone, EdTech
Evolving from researching artificial intelligence tools to substantive applications of AI, colleges are both boosting student engagement and supporting modern teaching in college classrooms.Across the higher education la ndscape, “we’re moving past AI readiness and starting to talk about how we can activate learning environments with AI,” says Micah Shippee, director of education at Samsung. Samsung’s AI-powered interactive display, for example, can give learners a shared point of focus and empower teachers with a range of capabilities to ensure student engagement.
https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2026/05/bringing-ai-active-lesson-life-higher-education
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Artificial intelligence assisted design of a novel cooperative learning technique for higher education - Özgür Tutal, Nature
Cooperative learning has long been recognized as an effective pedagogical strategy, yet the development of innovative techniques tailored to modern educational demands remains a challenge. This study introduces the Curriculum Concept Constellation Technique (CCCT), a novel cooperative learning technique developed with the support of artificial intelligence (AI). The CCCT employs a metaphorical and visual approach, wherein students collaboratively map key curriculum concepts into visual ‘constellations,’ (Throughout this manuscript, references to ‘constellations’ should be understood as a pedagogical metaphor for conceptual relationships, not as an astronomical or literal representation)—a metaphor representing how individual ideas (like stars) interconnect to form meaningful patterns. This approach fosters deeper conceptual understanding through creativity, role-based collaboration, and peer interaction.
Nature Retracts Oft-Cited Paper on Positive Impact of ChatGPT - GovTech
A widely read and frequently cited 2025 meta-analysis of 51 studies, which found positive effects of ChatGPT in education settings, has been retracted due to uncertainties about the studies and conclusions. A 2025 research paper finding substantial positive effects of ChatGPT on student learning outcomes was retracted last month, with the publishing journal Nature saying discrepancies “undermine the confidence the editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions.” The paper, The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis, reviewed findings from 51 research studies published between November 2022 and February 2025.
Saturday, May 16, 2026
The Secret to Understanding AI “Imagine the tech without the tech companies.” - Josh Tyrangiel, the Atlantic
Yet for all of the noise, a simple question stayed unanswered: What exactly was this new technology going to do for people? Not for corporations or the billionaires who aspired to become trillionaires, but for people with mortgages and sick parents and children struggling to learn things. Answers, when they came, were either so enormous as to be meaningless or so specific as to seem beside the point: AI would cure cancer and write your text messages
Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage - Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro, McKinsey Podcast
Companies chase AI everywhere but often fail to capture value—because they’re missing the muscle to scale what works. As generative and agentic AI reshape how work gets done, the real divide isn’t who has the best ideas—it’s who can turn them into real results at speed and scale. In this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin speak to Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly about the updated Rewired playbook—and why winning with AI now depends less on ambition and more on building the organizational capabilities to deliver.
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