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Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
⚡ 4 h early
AI classroom youth harm essay

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

13 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Abeba Birhane, Chris Marsden
“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...” evidence ↗
13 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“"To wrap AI into the art of learning when we have overwhelming proof of the harm it does to developing minds is feeding snake oil to the people we should cherish most." www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...”

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1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation o…”

Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
Harvard faculty oppose AI writing courses

Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Hypervisible
““Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.”” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

““Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.””

“Good pushback from Harvard faculty against the dean who doesn't understand learning. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...”

Established AI field signal Signal 11d ago

Bill ackman school ai curriculum cef53f44

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“Finally, this appeal to learnsci tries to make the science cover the politics of Alpha. This is a conservative for-profit attack on public schooling and teachers. Either its scientists don't realize it, or they're happy putting learning science to that poli…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Finally, this appeal to learnsci tries to make the science cover the politics of Alpha. This is a conservative for-profit attack on public schooling and teachers. Either its scientists don't realize it, or they're happy putting learning science to that poli…”

Established Culture, work & education Development 5d ago
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CodePath Anthropic AI education partnership

CodePath and Anthropic team up to open source AI's impact on students | ETIH EdTech News — EdTech Innovation Hub

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“Edu research is in serious danger of capture by genAI companies. They have research infrastructure most departments can't even imagine. But if you work with OpenAI or Anthropic et al? You're not just doing snazzy science but helping them capture the sector …” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Edu research is in serious danger of capture by genAI companies. They have research infrastructure most departments can't even imagine. But if you work with OpenAI or Anthropic et al? You're not just doing snazzy science but helping them capture the sector …”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 5d ago
AI education evidence production critique

The problem with evidence production on AI in education | code acts in education

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“Academic research measuring AI effects in education is appallingly biased already. New industry initiatives promise to hand research authority to big tech and construct even more problematic infrastructures for knowledge production on AI in education codeac…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Academic research measuring AI effects in education is appallingly biased already. New industry initiatives promise to hand research authority to big tech and construct even more problematic infrastructures for knowledge production on AI in education codeac…”

Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

tandfonline.com

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“Erasure: "a process through which the surface features of academic writing (such as fluency, coherence, and formal structure) are preserved or even enhanced through AI use, while the epistemic, critical, and disciplinary dimensions of writing are progressiv…” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Erasure: "a process through which the surface features of academic writing (such as fluency, coherence, and formal structure) are preserved or even enhanced through AI use, while the epistemic, critical, and disciplinary dimensions of writing are progressiv…”

New AI research Signal 6h ago

Oxford updates AI disclosure guidelines for academic authors - Research Information

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“"44% of respondents said they were concerned that disclosing their use of AI would negatively affect how others viewed their work, while only 36% said they currently recorded their use of AI during the research process." So most AI use in papers is secret w…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“"44% of respondents said they were concerned that disclosing their use of AI would negatively affect how others viewed their work, while only 36% said they currently recorded their use of AI during the research process." So most AI use in papers is secret w…”

Established Culture, work & education Resource 6d ago
Buckingham Shum AI education blog

Simon.BuckinghamShum.net – Sensemaking / Education / Analytics / AI

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“@drrobinthomas.bsky.social I tend towards a critical view of AI in ed (and of the *research* on AI in ed), but there are some who approach its "benefits" in a more sophisticated way than most of the crap studies out there (and who may have a concrete answer…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“@drrobinthomas.bsky.social I tend towards a critical view of AI in ed (and of the *research* on AI in ed), but there are some who approach its "benefits" in a more sophisticated way than most of the crap studies out there (and who may have a concrete answer…”

Established Culture, work & education Signal 12d ago

“AI + Education” Action Plan | Center for Security and Emerging Technology

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“"The plan advocates for a wide range of AI applications in education, from using AI to plan where new schools should be built and which majors universities should offer, ... to improving the effectiveness of classroom surveillance of teachers and students."…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“"The plan advocates for a wide range of AI applications in education, from using AI to plan where new schools should be built and which majors universities should offer, ... to improving the effectiveness of classroom surveillance of teachers and students."…”