Artificial Intelligence

LiveView Technologies is releasing a new surveillance camera feature that uses AI to detect actions and determine how to proceed, in some cases prompting AI voice warnings for common issues such as illegal dumping.

Inspired by educational animations on YouTube, a senior at Gull Lake High School in Michigan built an AI called KODISC that accesses information from across the Internet to generate videos.

After encouraging results with its STEM education platform in middle school classrooms, a Utah-based space tech company has assembled a team of AI and VR specialists to build educational tools.

New poll results show bipartisan opposition to the proposed 10-year artificial intelligence regulatory moratorium. A majority of respondents say both states and the federal government should implement policy.

A new project between the University at Albany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and the weather intelligence company Tomorrow.io will use high-performance computing and real-time data from both space and the ground.

Some of the promised test centers were unavailable and others were chaotic, with shouts from some test-takers that their screens had frozen while others were trying to answer the same questions.

A federal task force, student competitions, industry collaboration and fast-tracking grant programs will help students go from being tech consumers to tech creators in the AI-driven economy.

Bus driver shortages and new concepts like school choice, offering a range of potential campuses, pose new challenges for school transportation planners. Digital route-planning tools with artificial intelligence can address both.

Prepared, launched in 2019, is gaining ground with its assistive AI tools for emergency dispatchers. Andreessen Horowitz again invested in the young company, known for its livestreaming and translation tech.

Flock’s Nova platform for law enforcement reportedly used data gained from breaches. In response, the gov tech supplier is defending its product evaluation process and says it won’t use information from the dark web.

The Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology’s new Innovation Framework aims to guide the responsible public- and private-sector development, investment and use of artificial intelligence systems.

The present situation — computers grading papers written by computers, students and professors idly observing, and parents paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for the privilege — is a crisis in the making.

A school district in Connecticut is crafting a policy that allows students and staff to use AI tools, including stipulations that students may not misrepresent AI or partially AI-generated work as their own.

The nonprofit AI Education Project recently posted the first several episodes from aiEDU Studios, a platform for long-form, in-depth conversations with experts on artificial intelligence and education.

State elected officials are working on a legislative package that would address growing energy needs and rising costs — without derailing ambitious carbon-free goals. A driving force is capacity spikes.

Separated from live systems and sensitive public data, sandboxes let states and cities test drive artificial intelligence use cases without impacting services.

Despite the fact that "fostering AI competency" was a stated priority for the National Endowment for the Arts under the Trump administration, many projects involving AI are losing their grant funding anyway.

Educators from more than 20 school districts across 11 states have joined the Otus AI Advisory Board to help the company, which offers software to track student progress, align its new AI features with teachers' needs.