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

On this page: Introduction · What Is AI, Anyway? · Environmental Impacts · Labor Concerns · “Data” and Bias · Privacy, IP & Voice · Acknowledgements · References

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

The article discusses the rise of "AI slop", characterised by generic, uninspired content produced by AI, often resulting in stylistic and substantive issues, rather than just factual inaccuracies. It categorises these problems into seven types, highlighting the reputational risks associated with careless AI use and the need for nuanced discussions about AI-generated outputs.

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. Experts offer some tips on how to consume less.

The real lesson of the Hugging Face breach isn’t that AI went rogue—it’s how self-serving hype steers regulators toward the wrong fixes.

Schools have a rare opportunity to bring unresolved questions about AI and classroom technology into the open. The cost of leaving them unanswered is too high.

Revealing a Global Workspace in Language Models

In February this year, a safety researcher named Mrinank Sharma resigned from Anthropic with a long, public letter. Resignation letters from AI labs are a genre of their own now, and this one was widely shared and picked over. One reply stood out, from a developer named David Minnigerode posted on Threads: "Sorry that is. definitely tl;dr. But also kinda ai;dr Some of those sentences…yeesh."

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The booing kicked off before Gloria Caulfield could finish her sentence. At the University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities graduation on May 8th, real estate exec Caulfield told the graduating class that "the rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." One student yelled, "AI sucks", and the crowd erupted. Caulfield turned to the other speakers onstage, visibly confused: "OK, I struck a chord.

If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:

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The University of Central Florida commencement speaker didn't know how to read the room

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AI in the Classroom: Policy, Accountability, and Pedagogy Anna Mills A presentation for Dallas College April 28, 2026

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