On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.

Some lines we shouldn’t cross. This is one.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking. Professors might not be able to enforce a prohibition on its use for larger take-ho...

Bad news this week: on Tuesday, September 1st, the longest-operating natural history museum in the United States announced its imminent closure. The Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS) in downtown Ph…

Which AI risks could cause the most harm in the next five years? New MIT research shows that businesses should be aware of threats like competitive pressure and dangerous AI capabilities.

In the age of AI, colleges must be custodians of the written word.

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

The model collapse scenario threatens to wipe out whatever gains chatbots like Claude enjoyed from being trained on books in the first place.

This brief historical essay argues that one of the most consequential shifts in educational technology has been conceptual rather than technical: the ascendancy of technical rationality as the design ...

Students, faculty members, and alumni are asking how seriously the school is taking human learning in the age of AI.

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

A new tool built by the University of Denver is tracking not only all the AI bills in Colorado, but hundreds more across the country.

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

A summer tradition at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum lets visitors trade fireworks for fireflies, as naturalists warn the glowing insects are disappearing in many parts of the country.

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.