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Established Culture, work & education Resource 8d ago
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MIT AI education report published

Report – AI and Education

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Nicole Hennig
“AI and Education- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ #AI #education (very comprehensive & foundational)” evidence ↗
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How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$…”

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“AI and Education- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ #AI #education (very comprehensive & foundational)”

3 experts discussed this · 21 posts
Ted Underwood: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Derek Willis: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Ted Underwood: The world changing is mainly a problem for students. It also changes our ability to evaluate students — but if that’s the primary/sole focus of our conversation, we’ve forgotten the mission.
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Established Culture, work & education Development 13d ago
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university institutes AI classroom ban

Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Stephen Turner
“"Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions" chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“I use AI more or less 24/7 but also teach intro courses device-free and would have no prob with a flexible policy like this. (It leaves room for assignments that explicitly invite AI use, of which I do have one even at intro level.) +”

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“"Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions" chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...”

Established Culture, work & education Development 4d ago
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ICML culture AI workshop inaugural

Princeton's Meredith Martin Co-Organized First-Ever ICML Workshop on Culture and AI

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Center for Digital Humanities
“The @icmlconf.bsky.social is the leading annual conference for machine learning research. This summer, CDH / @princeton.edu's @mmvty.bsky.social co-organized the first-ever ICML workshop on Culture and AI, with @theturing.bsky.social, Google DeepMind, and @…” evidence ↗
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“The @icmlconf.bsky.social is the leading annual conference for machine learning research. This summer, CDH / @princeton.edu's @mmvty.bsky.social co-organized the first-ever ICML workshop on Culture and AI, with @theturing.bsky.social, Google DeepMind, and @…”

Established AI field signal Resource 13d ago
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Emory DSCI 340 course materials resource

GitHub - laurenfklein/dsci340-fall26: Notebooks and other course materials for Emory DSCI 340 (Fall 2026 - Klein)

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Lauren Klein
“After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structured around a single project: training up a C19 LLM from scra…” evidence ↗
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“After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structured around a single project: training up a C19 LLM from scra…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Lauren Klein: After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structu…
Maria Antoniak: After far too many AI-generated final projects, and my own uncertainty about what students really need to know about NLP these days, I decided to overhaul my Text as Data class so that it's structu…
Lauren Klein: NB: The first lesson is about the data center in Virginia that is hosting our cloud compute, and the last one is about the actual people who do RLHF for OpenAI and Meta (our class will be doing its…
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Established AI field signal Development 15d ago
ICML 2026 papers replication study

How much science is verifiable? Results from replicating ICML 2026 oral papers

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · chenhaotan.bsky.social
“It is very hard to keep up with multiple social media on multiple platforms. Allow me to share some old news. When ICML wrapped up, we used AI agents to review and replicate all 168 oral papers, including 105 full replications. The results are in this blog:…” evidence ↗
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“It is very hard to keep up with multiple social media on multiple platforms. Allow me to share some old news. When ICML wrapped up, we used AI agents to review and replicate all 168 oral papers, including 105 full replications. The results are in this blog:…”

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2 experts · 4 posts · 14d ago
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“Really good overview of how arxiv is thinking about handling the incoming LLM wave and the considerations going into it” evidence ↗
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Eugene Vinitsky: Really good overview of how arxiv is thinking about handling the incoming LLM wave and the considerations going into it
Maria Antoniak: We’re already incredibly overworked. We already have too many paper reviews to write and too many other important service roles. Unless someone is really passionate about the arxiv and see it as a …
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