The debate on AI's societal impact is widespread, and AI safety and ethics are now being worked on by companies and universities.

John Maynard Keynes's 1930 prediction of a 15-hour workweek due to productivity gains has not come true... has it?

Laplace's demon is a mythical entity that knows every particle's location & momentum in the universe, allowing it to predict all past and future states based on physical laws.

Societies have a proven track record of increasing safety and reducing accidents over time, demonstrating how human norms and feedback mechanisms can effectively domesticate technology for human benefit. Maybe there is hope?

Stuart Russell warns that we "had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire" to avoid superintelligent AI conflicting with human objectives.

"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
--John Dewey

Technology has been slow to transform classrooms, but digital networks today are different; they're widely adopted for official purposes, interaction, and content creation, unlike earlier electronic media!

Plato criticized writing, seeing it as "an elixir not of memory, but of reminding" that offered the "appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom". This ancient debate on technology's impact still resonates today.

School leaders: Understanding basic technology like IP addresses is vital for informed conversations with your IT professionals! It helps you grasp the tech that's crucial to your schools.

It's important to note that scaffolding is not simply dispensing correct answers or using behaviorist reward/punishment systems. Instead, it's about interactive dialogue and support that truly guides the learning process.

Facial recognition tech is quietly entering schools for campus security, automated attendance, and even student emotion detection. Seen as routine, but experts warn it could make schools more authoritarian & oppressive.

Multiple-choice prequestions are often found to produce both specific and general benefits. This is because considering all answer options encourages a broader focus on related information during learning.

Measuring human intelligence is a complex endeavor, and the measurement of artificial intelligence is still in its nascent stages. Comparisons between human and AI intelligence often rely on evaluating AI's performance against a few human experts.

That which is most important in does not appear in your data.

Anyone noticing the “it’s in the syllabus” crowd are also the instructors who send an email asking for help in how to do what is in the “remote teaching toolkit” the dean told them to use?

The "darker impacts" of LLMs: Half of users (50%) have felt lazy or taken a too-easy shortcut, and 35% have felt like they were cheating when using LLMs.

Half of American adults now use AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot. This marks one of the fastest tech adoption rates in history.

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