Jane Rosenzweig

From the president of San Jose State who welcomed graduates using her AI avatar and set up the AI Everywhere initiative. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com

"Another strategy document describes Alpha’s plans to make Price a social media thought influencer...The document says Price’s content should “deliberately polarize” and that “educational influence belongs to the extremes, not the experts.” www.wired.com/story/alpha-...

Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School wired.com

From the author of The Future of Truth on the fact that his book had ai-generated fake quotations in it. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. - Ars Technica arstechnica.com

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this piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about what his students have said about AI, why they're using it, and what they think about it. "Nobody used the term “arms race,” but that’s what they described: enormous pressure to use AI or fall behind those who are." /2

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When asking AI to edit changes the meaning of the text. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds theguardian.com

So many roads lead back to the question of whether the work outsourced to AI frees up time to do the important work or whether it will turn out to be the important work. Worth reading this by @helenouyang.bsky.social on what changes when AI writes patient notes. www.nytimes.co…

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Finally reading Claude's "constitution" as I think about some new assignments for my AI course and highly recommend for anyone trying to understand what Anthropic is all about. www.anthropic.com/constitution

Claude’s Constitution anthropic.com

just doesn't make sense if you're someone who sees the connection between thinking and writing. And those of us who teach see it happen to our students too, which is why...we are worried about their use of LLMs (which, apparently, this person is too?). www.smh.com.au/national/…

‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers smh.com.au

The eternal struggle between optimization and being human. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/b...

‘Talk to My A.I. Twin’: Busy Executives Have a New Productivity Hack nytimes.com

At a high school that focuses on preparing students for an AI world, the focus is on human, "durable" skills. Makes me wonder what would happen if we just rebranded everything we want students to be able to do for themselves (thinking/writing/reading) as "AI ready"! www.nytime…

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If you put the number from previous post (only 35% know that "AI" can't tell the difference between things that are true and things that are false) next to this chart, you can see the contrast between using and learning about. /2 www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/defaul...

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Hear a lot that AI can be used to enhance learning rather than outsource but every day I get emails like this (subject:"Turn big ideas into A work") offering me 50% off Grammarly to generate my work with AI, check it to see if it sounds like AI, then rewrite it with AI to not sound like AI.

Google AI overview: It's like a page from a deranged children's book

This is not at all what happens at the Writing Center I run but interesting that Turnitin is suggesting that human tutors are less competent than the "instructor controlled AI assistant"

The way to "sound like you" is to figure out what you think and say it. All of us who teach students need to talk to them about this message that sounding "like you" means "AI drafting, summarizing, and revising" because this message is on every platform every day.

A few months ago I had the chance to speak at the Secondary School Writing Centers Association Conference, where I met so many thoughtful high school writing tutors who are trying to make sense of how AI affects their work and education. One group of students, from Waterford School in Utah /1

Once again, not sure about the marketing strategy here of telling Writing Center directors that their tutors are bad at their jobs by misrepresenting what tutors do in order to sell them an AI replacement. The idea that a tutor just offer a "red pen" is both insulting and wrong.

New Common Sense Media survey of teens/tweens and AI is out. More evidence (not that we need it) that helping students understand how LLMs work is crucial. In my (college) writing course about AI, we begin there. /1

I continue to be fascinated by the marketing campaign that targets writing center directors to use Turnitin AI by telling them how bad they are at their jobs.

Always worth reading @taffyakner.bsky.social who profiles "Tilly Norwood" in today's Times. Made me think about a few things, including that the journalists telling stories about AI that I admire have such distinctive voices themselves. Can't imagine replacing Brodesser-Akner with AI slop./1

Looking for favorite short stories that are in some way about AI and humans for a potential new assignment for my students. Please share suggestions.