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...
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School wired.com
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. - Ars Technica arstechnica.com
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‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers smh.com.au
‘Talk to My A.I. Twin’: Busy Executives Have a New Productivity Hack nytimes.com
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The Small-Business Owners Managing Whole Armies of A.I. Employees nytimes.com
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era nytimes.com
Claude’s Constitution anthropic.com
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Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’ theguardian.com
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"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-...
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...
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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/…
The eternal struggle between optimization and being human. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/b...
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...
From article about how small business owners are using AI agents. This bankruptcy lawyer set up five Openclaw agents and has come to this conclusion. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/m...
"Instead, she urged educators to accept that most future writing would be produced in a partnership between artificial intelligence and human discernment." Grammarly head of education in article about how AI companies are producing both cheating detectors and cheating tools.
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
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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This seems like a strange choice given the topic of the piece but also so much more work than just writing the piece, which " urged students to “do the work” and not cut corners by using such technology" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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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"
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.
When I posted the search results of "how many m's in Harvard" I was told by multiple people it was a gotcha question and that's why google got it wrong. This question seems like the kind of thing one might google and...it's confidently wrong. But we know this about google AI overview and yet.
Testing out the famous Claude Fable. It is the first model I've tested that picked up on a subtle ambiguous pronoun situation. But this old chestnut, which used to tie GPT-3 in knots, is still challenging.
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