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When students used AI to solve problems they did worse overall, even though they felt good about the work. The gap was sharpest by mindset: students who like to think things through used AI sparingly, while students who…
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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Tested AI models on standardized medical questions and found they matched or beat human doctors on the test. Whether this carries over to r…
Research · Human Capacity
Microsoft Research's early evaluation of GPT-4, arguing the model shows the first sparks of general intelligence across a surprisingly wide…
Research · Learning
Reviews early evidence on what ChatGPT does to learning and memory, and warns that leaning on AI in place of thinking weakens both. The aut…
Research · Human Capacity
Looked at when people are willing to let AI decide for them. People hand over routine, low-stakes tasks readily, but want to stay in the lo…
Editorial · Human Capacity
A Nature news feature collecting how scientists across biology, physics, medicine, and social science responded to the release of GPT-4 in …
Research · Human Capacity
The International Energy Agency's annual electricity outlook; the 2024 edition gives a lot of attention to data centers, AI, and cryptocurr…
AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Oren Etzioni
AI researcher; founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2); professor emeritus at the University of Washington
The most important thing to realize about living in the 21st century, as against the Middle Ages or the Stone Age, is that we are now hackable animals.
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, Nexus
Because of AI and the frictionless relationships people are engaging in online, a lot of young people are losing the ability to endure rejection.
Scott Galloway
Professor of marketing, NYU Stern; host of Prof G and Pivot podcasts; author of The Algebra of Wealth (2024)
We are building technology to replace humans and automate people away. That is not the enterprise of technology. Its purpose throughout history has been to improve human flourishing.
Karen Hao
Journalist; author of Empire of AI (2025); formerly MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, WSJ