Artificial Intelligence
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A new document from the nonprofit Complete College America highlights how three universities are innovating teaching and learning with artificial intelligence through scalable initiatives. -
The project is under discussion, with a vote on approvals possible as soon as August. Comprising 20 parcels on just more than 1,000 acres, Project Cardinal would have two electrical substations.
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Purpose-built AI learning platforms that don’t give students the answer, as opposed to tools that allow for direct answer generation like ChatGPT, are the way to avoid making students utterly dependent upon AI.
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Whether or not they agree with calls to halt innovation, many professors and computer scientists in higher education share the feelings of tech leaders that emerging AI needs oversight and regulation.
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A new generation of AI-enabled classroom tools might help teachers and students move beyond the old “factory model” of education, which teaches all students at the same pace, to a more personalized model.
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Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually — but it could be a nightmare for democracy.
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The department’s Office of Educational Technology, in response to the speed of AI innovation and classroom implementation, identified key questions, concerns and recommendations for establishing school policies.
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SponsoredBuses provide high-capacity transit service. But cars parked illegally at bus stops put riders in danger and prevent people with disabilities from safely boarding or exiting the bus. Hayden AI’s Automated Bus Stop Enforcement Platform enforces bus stop parking laws and makes it safer and easier to board buses.
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Executives from some of the leading companies in the AI space have issued an intentionally vague warning meant to “open up discussion” around the rapidly evolving technology. The statement is another in a long line of warnings about the potential dangers of unchecked AI.
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Despite the widespread anxiety over deepfakes’ effects on democracy, political consultants say they are more excited about generative AI’s potential to tackle boring grunt work and expand their ability to deploy big-race tactics in down-ballot contests.
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Does your local government need a stance on generative AI? Boston encourages staff’s “responsible experimentation,” Seattle’s interim policy outlines cautions, and King County begins considering what responsible generative AI use might be.
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Figuring out how to regulate AI is a difficult challenge, and that’s even before tackling the problem of the small number of big companies that control the technology.
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Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.
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A new White House fact sheet aims to advance responsible research, development and deployment of artificial intelligence, with new actions including an updated road map and a request for public input.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan will partner with a power grid technology company and use artificial intelligence-powered technology to study how electric vehicle driving and charging behavior impacts the electric grid.
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Fears about misinformation, AI hallucinations, cheating and the long-term undermining of education persist, but college students and professors are finding AI useful for administrative tasks and tutoring.
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Along with OpenAI, San Francisco is home to Scale AI, valued at $7.3 billion, though the company cut its workforce earlier this year, and Anthropic and Dialpad, which have each raised hundreds of millions of dollars.
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"Class of 09,” which debuted earlier this month, grapples with questions about how AI may affect society through the eyes of a handful of FBI agents from the graduating class of 2009.
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Infinity Water Solutions and Quantum Reservoir Impact have announced a strategic partnership to develop, deploy and advance a water intelligence platform called SpeedWise Water, an AI and machine-learning software.
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Speaking at a Senate hearing in Washington, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed public concerns about the fast-growing technology and called for the creation of an agency to license leading artificial intelligence.
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Former ACLU of Idaho Legal Director Richard Eppink said at a U.S. Senate hearing that a lack of public transparency and other factors led to damaging effects when the state tried to use algorithms to determine Medicaid funding.
