The Gates Foundation recently pledged $1 billion over two years for AI efforts, with a large share going to education. Why the big AI push, even as Bill Gates warns of the technology's possible downsi...

MIT has long been known for its quirky student culture, where collaborating on problem sets is a frequent form of socializing. But a new internal report warns that AI is changing all that, as more stu...

Proponents of new AI tools say they will unleash human creativity. But some artists worry that the tools will flatten creative output. For this episode, Jeff interviews two prominent artists with diff...

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The liberal arts are having a moment these days. As AI tools are automating knowledge work, there’s a growing sense that the best way to get a job now is to have skills that robots are still terrible ...

It’s a pivotal time for democracy because of the rise of AI. What role should colleges play? For this episode Jeff headed to Washington, DC to sit down with Mark Fisher, the director of a new center a...

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As companies start to replace employees with AI agents, how are human workers adjusting? For this episode Jeff connected with Evan Ratliff, who created what he calls “the world’s first AI-led startup”...

Competitive memory athlete Nelson Dellis has won multiple national championships, and he’s used AI to help him train for competitions. But as he turned to chatbots more and more, his thinking began to...

An A.I. expert joins to talk about the highs, lows, and inevitabilities of ChatGPT and the like in schools.

During the ICE surge in Minneapolis, AI is playing a role in this tense and unfolding story, specifically how it is contributing to misinformation. What can educators do to prepare students, and any o...

Is It Possible to Put Age Limits on AI Tools? Last week the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about potential legislation banning kids under 13 from using social media. Australia has a ne...

In the past few months new AI tools known as “Agentic AI” have emerged. These new browsers let users deploy AI assistants that can surf the web on their behalf. While they were designed to do things l...

Skilled trades are typically seen as professions that won’t be permeated by AI. But that’s starting to change. Jeff visited auto tech classes at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount, Minn., wh...

More than 40 percent of high school students have AI friends or know someone who does, according to a recent survey. What does this phenomenon mean for how students and teachers view the AI tools used...

A student newspaper editorial has sparked a discussion on one campus in ways that colleges around the country can learn from.

As some professors boycott AI trainings, one longtime education expert worries about how to have productive conversations and guide students about the fast-moving tech.

We set up a table at the University of Minnesota and asked students to share how they use AI in their studies — and how they feel about the technology. Fear was the common thread — Fear of being caugh...

Colleges are experimenting with making online teaching videos featuring AI avatar versions of professors. Some students find the simulated likenesses of their instructors a bit creepy, but proponents ...

If a critical mass of instructors enter their lecture notes into AI tools as prompts to save a few minutes making their slides, is that giving away the store as far as their intellectual property?

Ella Stapleton noticed something unusual in lecture notes her professor handed out to students. Coverage of what happened next sparked discussion about misuse of AI in education – not by students tryi...

What does it mean to teach and learn in an age of generative AI? This is the newsletter for the Learning Curve podcast by education journalist Jeff Young. Click to read Learning Curve, by Jeff Young, ...

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

Why one scholar argues that understanding what makes ChatGPT and other new AI tools tick is necessary to best harness the tech in classrooms.

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

If students are already prone to check out in school, it really doesn’t help to look over and see students secretly having ChatGPT do their work for them. The co-author of the new book on student dise...

A former university president is trying to reimagine college teaching with AI in mind, and this year he released an unusual video that provides a kind of artist’s sketch of what that could look like. ...

What does it mean to teach and learn in the age of generative AI? Join host Jeff Young as he talks with educators, tech leaders and students, aiming to cut through the hype and inform a conversation a...

From deepfakes that use professors’ voices to chatbots that turn against students with the very information they’ve provided, higher ed is increasingly vulnerable to nefarious, AI-powered cyberattacks...

If you teach on a college campus, you likely have access to a slew of generative AI tools or features that have been quietly embedded in applications you use each day.

Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region’s AI development

As state officials anticipate Medicaid funding cuts that could strip resources for those with disabilities and chronic health conditions, an army of unpaid caregivers waits in the wings: children.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.

Foreign-born students pay double or triple the tuition of domestic students — and are key to universities’ bottom line.

In a new book, a long-time expert on academic integrity argues that understating why students cheat is key to making adjustments in teaching to prevent ...

Some are anticipating a further expansion of school choice incentives. Would consumer protection laws applied to education help?

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A new effort uses AI chatbots to conduct interviews with human subjects, which proponents say will revolutionize measuring public opinion in a variety ...

Students who transfer from community colleges to four-year universities are often more motivated and engaged in the classroom than students who arrive ...

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As more AI tools hit the market aimed at helping students study, some teaching experts raise concerns, as well as point to benefits for neurodivergent ...