Cocomelon studio mandates AI experimentation
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“Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' www.404media.co/cocomelons-s...”
“New: the studio behind Cocomelon is telling its artists to start using AI, according to documents seen by 404 Media. Moonbug, the studio that makes Cocomelon, one of the most important children's entertainment studios on the planet www.404media.co/cocomelon…”
Pew Research Americans AI views 2026
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“~50% of people (in the US) use LLMs regularly, and this has only been increasing more over time. These products are already somewhat ingrained in society, and informing people about the risks and issues with tools that they are attached to does not work if …”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“"More Americans are using chatbots, and some are adopting AI summaries and smart speakers. But views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative – even for younger adults" www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...”
Berkeley Law AI policy resource
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy seems close to this. "This policy...[forbids the use of AI] to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work...for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work [and] in any exam situation." www.law.berkeley…”
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Jane Rosenzweig: Every time I read a university leader saying that trying to create spaces where AI is not used is a way of pretending it doesn't exist, I wonder what benefit there is to drawing this false line. Wh…
Jane Rosenzweig: If one of my students wrote this piece, I would ask for evidence that the places named--Chicago and Berkeley--are pretending AI doesn't exist or trying to make it go away. This is the Berkeley poli…
Jane Rosenzweig: Would be great to stop having this debate and instead really dig into what should go in the curriculum, with or without AI, so that we can meet this moment in a way other than trying to hang on to …
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open letter AI academia adoption
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Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science”
Opportunity & adoption
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“Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their na…”
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Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
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US school districts impose AI moratoriums
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“NYC and LA just restricted AI in classrooms, and in both cities the parents and teachers who pushed for it are celebrating. Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports on the grassroots movement resisting the rush to adopt AI in schools.”
Amazon Mechanical Turk platform closes
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“Data workers will lose vital income when Amazon's Mechanical Turk shuts down. Krystal Kauffmann calls for lawmakers to protect AI's hidden workforce. buff.ly/qOfG2tu”
“Wow: www.techpolicy.press/mechanical-t...”
Labor Day AI fair employment prescription
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“AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain," warns NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former EEOC chair Charlotte A. Burrows. She says gutting disparate impact law make…”
Microsoft GPT-4 AGI sparks paper
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“Sparks of AGI was a remarkably prescient paper that got a lot of pushback at the time, but absolutely sensed where the vibes were heading with LLMs based on a lot of qualitative experiments. It deserves credit in retrospect. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...”
AI education evidence production critique
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“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…”
philosophy journal publishes AI article
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“Speak for Me: Giving LLMs the Situational Awareness to Participate in a Meeting Muneeb Khan, Frederic Kirstein, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp https://t.co/aWOLwrMie3 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝙻] 💬Accepted at EMNLP 2026 Main https://t.co/BHfdbuF9cy”
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“Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study Mark Solms, St John Grimbly, Bruce Bassett, Evert Boonstra, Rowan Hodson, Nicolas Kuske, Kival Mahadew, Benjamin Rosman, Charel van Hoof, Jonathan Shock https://t.co/sp4o2l6LUv [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚚-…”
CauseCollab collaborative perception paper
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“CauseCollab: Causal Unified and Modality-Agnostic Network for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception Weize Li, Yang Li, Quan Yuan, Xiaoyuan Fu, Guiyang Luo, Jinglin Li https://t.co/oxhYXvkhX4 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] 💬Accepted at ICML 2026 https://t.co/zRmKmHCMQ7”
creative AI model governance paper
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“Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI Phoenix Perry, George Simms, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasmine Boudiaf, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tega Brain, R. Luke DuBois, Alix Rule, Rachel Meade Smith, … https://t.co/uEAqO6cDYF [𝚌𝚜…”
AI energy data center paper
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“Artificial Intelligence for Energy Optimization in Data Centers Mohammed Basharath Ullah, Summaiya Unnisa Begum, Mohammed Nadeem Ullah https://t.co/VJ9MjK7aK3 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶] https://t.co/zY1cH1c0Pn”
food delivery riders AI pay protest
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“Great to see @workersobservatory.org in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...”
AI teaching assistant personalization paper
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“A Prompt-Engineering Approach to Develop Scalable, Flexible, and Real-Time Hybrid Micro-Level Personalization in a General Purpose AI Teaching Assistant Saptarshi Basu, Sandeep Kakar, Ashok Goel https://t.co/L5NdbS7vzj [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] https://t.co/NfsjG7UdWP”
AI-driven English textbook implementation paper
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“Structure and Implementation of New Practical English Textbooks Driven by Artificial Intelligence Ya Wang, Lei Zhang, Xueguang Yang, Bo Chen https://t.co/ApLfbYZ6Go [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] https://t.co/8TN0DtDqmy”
