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Are chatbots politically biased? The Washington Post tested the AI models behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and others using political questions designed by researchers to gauge how chatbots respond to hot-button political issues.
The White House has requested OpenAI limit the release of its upcoming GPT 5.6 model to a small number of government-approved partners because of its advanced capabilities, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
(NOTUS) - Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms, according to three people familiar with the matter. @notus.com www.notus.org/tec…
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Bad Ideas about AI and Writing, a new anthology from the @wacclearinghouse.bsky.social, transforms bad ideas into "'generative' ideas about GenAI and writing, ideas that spur creative new directions in the education and practice of writing." wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...
‘The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.’ www.mla.org/Resources/A…
Why should Amazon get to block AI agents from its site while ed tech sites can't? When it comes to this question, I have two wishes. Wish 1: please reply with WRONG ANSWERS ONLY Wish 2: find me an educational entity that will sue AI agent companies as Amazon has. www.rumidocs.…
We just hit 4,000 visits to the Peer & AI Review + Reflection packet of open-licensed materials! @pairrfeedback.bsky.social Check out our tested prompts, AI literacy readings, reflection assigments, and prompting scaffolding pairr.short.gy/packet
"If you take this class, be prepared to do a lot of writing and not use AI. The teacher will have you rewrite it until there's no AI in your essay." --an anonymous student survey message to future students in my classes I'm glad some of my accountabiity measures worked.
Is anyone aware of a campaign to add some kind of tag line where the author affirms that they wrote the text? Given the frustration with widespread unlabeled AI (Claudish), it seems like that would allow the writer to reassure the reader. It wouldn't be proof, of course, but it might help.
Anthropic built a smarter model, Mythos. As a result of being smarter, it finds security vulnerabilities. Everyone is focused on that and on tge non-aligned things Mythos did in testing, like breaking out of its container and posting online about how it did so. But smarter has more implications. +
Sharing "Open Practices for Wicked Problems: Anna Mills on Navigating AI in the Writing Classroom" in the journal Writing on the Edge. @lisasperber.bsky.social, one of the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social architects, interviewed me, with editorial help from @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social and Joy Ok. +
Instead of "ethical AI" can we say "more ethical"? Otherwise it seems like we're trying to assert purity where it's not possible.
What if students want guidance on engaging with AI feedback but the teacher doesn't offer any? MyEssayFeedback now offers a low-cost option with the @pairrfeedback.bsky.social materials, including a tested feedback prompt and menus of possible ways to chat back and get more out of the feedback. +
"One problem with AI agents is they're trained on so much fiction that they have both narrative disorder and main character syndrome, and will latch onto details that feed a story...And they can do it at lightning speed, governed ...by the laws of storytelling." @janelleshane.com +
These claims seem parallel and equally absurd to me; do they to you? *If AI can complete a writing assignment, it's not worth assigning anymore *The Industrial Revolution makes exercise pointless
Here's a dead simple example where working with agentic AI in your apps helps, and you don't cede control. I say to Claude in PowerPoint, "Remove all the yellow highlighting." It removes highlighting from the whole deck.
Congrats to Lisa Sperber, @maritjmacarthur.bsky.social @sophiaminnillo.bsky.social Nicholas Stillman and @carlwhithaus.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Ellen Nold Award for Best Article for Peer and AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social: A human-centered approach to formative assessment
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