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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
Two lab experiments plus a field study in two graduate programming courses on how AI access affects student learning. On average AI made no…
Research · Human Capacity
Asked the public how they feel about AI making decisions in different fields (medical, legal, news). Trust depends on the field and on whet…
Research · Learning
A trial with nearly 1,000 high school math students compared a regular ChatGPT-style tutor to one prompted to safeguard learning. Both impr…
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Earlier studies disagreed about whether people trust algorithms or avoid them; this paper says both are true, and the choice depends on the…
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…
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Argues that some kinds of thinking only conscious minds do well: paying flexible attention, handling situations no one has ever seen before…
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