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College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
14+ hour, 53+ min 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…...
AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work
4+ day, 7+ 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…...
Man Pretends to Hallucinate in Job Interview With an AI Bot, Causing It to Go Haywire
1+ week, 17+ hour 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…...
College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built
1+ week, 1+ day ago (462+ words) Published Sep 4, 2026 9:38 AM EDT Will AI supercharge the economy? Will the data centers powering it bring prosperity and provide paying jobs to the communities they’re built in? Probably not. New research shows that rapid rise of AI has instead coincided…...
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…...
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, 16+ 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…...
Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models
2+ week, 4+ day ago (357+ words) Published Aug 25, 2026 9:50 AM EDT Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in measures…...
Employers Are Hiring Recent Grads and Then Saying "Oops, Never Mind"
2+ week, 6+ day 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,…...
The Results of Middle and High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous
3+ week, 17+ 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…...