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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, 5+ 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…...
MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model
1+ week, 6+ day 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…...
Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It
2+ week, 20+ hour 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…...
ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure
3+ week, 3+ day ago (452+ words) Published Aug 19, 2026 1:56 PM EDT After years of horrendous scandals, OpenAI has seemingly admitted that ChatGPT wasn’t safe for teenage users. On Tuesday, the Sam Altman-led company rolled out an alternate version of the bot called “ChatGPT for Teens,” which is…...
AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
4+ day, 10+ 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…...
The Results of Middle and High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous
3+ week, 21+ hour 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…...
Tech Layoffs So Far This Year Have Officially Blown Past the Total for 2025
4+ week, 1+ day ago (278+ words) Published Aug 14, 2026 10:21 AM EDT Last year was a bloodbath for tech workers around the world. Across all of 2025, this strata of highly trained professionals lost some 122,606 jobs across 278 global tech companies, driven by extremely wealthy corporations like Amazon and Meta…...
Teachers Warn That Students Are Losing the Ability to Think as They Lean on AI for Everything
3+ week, 3+ 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…...
Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade
1+ week, 2+ 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…...
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
3+ week, 3+ day ago (797+ words) Published Aug 19, 2026 10:04 AM EDT A TikTok video shows a teenage girl walking through the front doors of a large high school. It’s filmed point-of-view style using smart glasses, and a hashtag in the caption reads “#metaglasses.” “Excuse me, could I…...