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Multiple readings Report – AI and Education Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Culture, work & education Resource 7d ago
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MIT AI education report published

Report – AI and Education

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Grace Lindsay Damien Williams Eileen Clancy 🧿 Nicole Hennig Elizabeth Bonawitz Derek Willis +2
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“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)”

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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 AI research Research 13d ago
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molecular ultrastructure neural dynamics paper

Compiling molecular ultrastructure into neural dynamics

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Konrad Kording Grace Lindsay

“Hiring for research scientists in expansion chemistry and optical physiology at mindspan.org with @eboyden3.bsky.social, Yongxin Zhao, Xue Han. We will build tools to analyze the human brain. We are into compiling arxiv.org/abs/2603.25713. We are into cutti…”

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The Hugging Face Incident Is Not an AI Story

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

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Grace Lindsay

“This article seems to say that they did know a lot of this was possible/happening www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/31/1...”

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Melanie Mitchell: Who wants to read yet another think piece on the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident? Choices: (1) Stop, enough already! (2) I still have questions (3) Yes, please write one! Let me know your choice, an…
Grace Lindsay: It does seem like a decent amount of human error (in OpenAI's security and monitoring and in the design of the ExploitGym flags) is relevant here though, no?
Benjamin Riley: 3) and I’ll DM you with my hope :)
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4 experts · 6 posts · 17d ago
Grace Lindsay Laura K. Nelson Joao Barbosa Sam Barrett, PhD
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Grace Lindsay: Teaching "AI use" in college (not related to teaching how AI is built) is silly because 1.) the tools are meant to be user friendly with minimal training and 2.) they change so often your education…
Sam Barrett, PhD: I disagree. Maybe they are designed to be user friendly but I don't think that means effective use is easy or comes for free. It requires developing mental habits, intuitions and a kind of theory o…
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