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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…...
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…...
ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure
3+ week, 4+ 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…...
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
1+ day, 8+ 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…...
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…...
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…...
AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
5+ day, 58+ min 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…...
Cop Used Electrocution Gloves to Subdue High School Student in Special Education Program
3+ week, 2+ day ago (472+ words) Published Aug 21, 2026 12:03 PM EDT And though the gloves might be new to most of the American public, they’re certainly not new to local cops, who it turns out are just as likely to use them on vulnerable high school students…...
Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models
2+ week, 5+ day ago (357+ words) some parents — much more efficient. As Michael C. Frank, a cognitive scientist at Stanford University explained...your typical human. “It’s just totally miraculous,” Frank told MIT of the human language learner. He notes...
Employers Are Hiring Recent Grads and Then Saying "Oops, Never Mind"
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (327+ words) Published Aug 23, 2026 11:06 AM EDT Inundated with AI-generated resumes, ruthless employers are ghosting applicants and even rescinding job offers after they’ve been accepted, SFGate reports, deepening the nightmare that recent grads experience when entering the job market. In a June 2026 report,…...