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The Semester of Our Discontent: AI, Education, and the Backlash We Should Not Ignore

As another academic semester begins, something has changed in the conversation about artificial intelligence. For the last several years, the dominant discussion surrounding generative AI has centered on…

AI Police, meet Python

TechCrunch reported that Anthropic plans to watermark text generated by its AI models. Predictably, that immediately reopened the familiar debate around detection, provenance, enforcement, and how educators might…

Beyond the Chatbot: Building AI Ecosystems That Learn, Analyze, and Adapt

What happens when we stop asking, “Which AI tool is best?” and start asking, “What happens when we combine the right tools together?” That is where AI gets…

Can You Really “Rank” Inside ChatGPT? The Myths and Facts About GEO

There is a lot of talk about “ranking inside ChatGPT,” “optimizing for AI,” and GEO, or Generative Engine Optimization. Some of it is legitimate. Some of it is…

Being Pro-AI Means Building Data Centers the West Can Sustain

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) promise to transform education, scientific research, medicine, business, and engineering. Efforts to broadly restrict or delay AI development are neither practical nor beneficial…

Research Reflection: AI Is Evolving Beyond Content Generation

One pattern stood out as I reviewed today’s education AI research. Across multiple new studies, researchers are moving beyond asking “Can AI teach?” and are instead asking “How…

What Today’s AI Leaders Can Learn from the Mobile Phone Industry of 2000

In 2000, if you asked industry experts who would dominate mobile technology over the next 25 years, many would have pointed to companies like Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, and…

Are We Improving Learning… or Outsourcing It?

A new article in The Atlantic argues that we may be entering a “post-literate” era, where deep reading is becoming less common and sustained attention is increasingly difficult…

Beyond One Chatbot: The Future of Learning Is an AI Ecosystem

One of the most interesting concepts I encountered this week was the idea of a Multi-Provider LLM Gateway. Most people interact with AI through a single platform. However,…

The Next AI Breakthrough Isn’t a Bigger Model

One of the most interesting themes emerging in AI research is that better outcomes are increasingly coming from better frameworks—not necessarily bigger models. Three recent articles caught my…