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The Results of Middle and High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous
3+ week, 1+ day ago (313+ words) Published Aug 22, 2026 8:03 AM EDT New research gives us a grim portrait of how rampant AI usage is affecting young students’ academic performance and learning. In a study that tracked nearly 27,000 students in China between the ages of 12 and 18 (grades 7-12), around…...
Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It
2+ week, 1+ day ago (495+ words) Published Aug 29, 2026 9:02 AM EDT Advocates for the use of AI in the classroom have long argued that the tech could supercharge learning, giving the current generation of students a major leg up as they get ready to enter a nearly…...
MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (350+ words) Published Aug 30, 2026 2:01 PM EDT MIT is mulling an overhaul of its entire educational system in response to the threat posed by powerful AI models — a striking response to the tech from one of the planet’s most visible and influential research…...
Teachers Warn That Students Are Losing the Ability to Think as They Lean on AI for Everything
3+ week, 4+ day ago (497+ words) Published Aug 19, 2026 8:49 AM EDT Students across the country are using AI models to complete assignments and write entire essays. Some of this constitutes cheating, but in many cases schools are allowing students to make some use of AI tools. This…...
Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models
2+ week, 5+ day ago (357+ words) Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure...
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (473+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 11:02 AM EDT You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from…...
Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With "North Dahota" and "Olkchoma"
3+ week, 6+ day ago (418+ words) Published Aug 17, 2026 2:04 PM EDT Kentucky parents are outraged after discovering that horribly inaccurate educational materials handed out to their middle school students were generated with AI. According to local station WDRB, students at Farnsley Middle School in Southwest Louisville were…...
Man Pretends to Hallucinate in Job Interview With an AI Bot, Causing It to Go Haywire
1+ week, 1+ day ago (455+ words) Published Sep 5, 2026 8:03 AM EDT Apply for just about any office job these days, and there’s a pretty good chance your first round interview won’t be with a human, but with a crummy virtual AI avatar. Though the practice has become…...
AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (714+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 6:54 PM EDT Schools across the world are experimenting with AI tools, usually to the dismay of unsuspecting parents. But one privately-run school is explicitly embracing AI as part of its sales pitch, and the in-class experience sounds more…...
Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade
1+ week, 3+ day ago (392+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 12:50 PM EDT New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start of high school, along with other restrictions on the technology. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the one-year moratorium on…...