Artificial Intelligence

The New York City public schools are loosening the reins on emerging technologies such as ChatGPT, while putting new rules and resources in place Thursday to promote artificial intelligence in classrooms.

A federal agency has awarded $2.1 million to a pair of companies to use AI algorithms to monitor the quality of 988 operators' suicide risk assessments, building on the crisis hotline's rollout nationwide one year ago.

The funding will establish an Institute for Inclusive and Intelligent Technologies for Education on the Urbana-Champaign campus. The research focuses on non-cognitive learning skills among K-12 students.

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.

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.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer has been consulting experts on the best way to regulate the advanced technology. Under his framework, independent experts would have to test new AI technologies before they are publicly released or updated.

Experts shared the benefits and risks posed by quickly emerging AI systems. In addition to the standard security concerns the technology brings, experts were quick to share some of the workforce efficiencies it provides as well.

The Spokane school district in Washington state is trying out an artificial-intelligence powered instructional coach to help teachers evaluate and strengthen their classroom practices.

The process, started in 2019, took a big leap forward last fall when the 177,000-student suburban Atlanta district opened what some experts call the nation's first AI high school.

Depending on who you talk with or what stories you read, Open AI and ChatGPT may be the greatest things in the world — or the beginning of the end for humanity.

As the tech world continues to buzz about the potential of generative artificial intelligence tools, Massachusetts CIO Jason Snyder describes what may be one of the technology’s first uses in state government.

Artificial intelligence, already in use among police, budgeting officials and others, now could help employees with support tasks at public agency jobs. That could save time and workplace frustration.

Many online courses have low completion rates, and the new ed-tech platform Courus proposes to address this by tailoring lessons to each student's particular goals, interests and skill sets.

Experts in technology, education and artificial intelligence expect the next generation of tools will empower students, give them more autonomy over their education and generate more data as well as risks.

The private research university in Pennsylvania will use federal funding to establish an AI Institute for Societal Decision Making and develop tools that can respond to uncertain or rapidly changing situations.

There are now smaller, cheaper versions of the best-in-class AI models created by the big firms that (almost) match them in performance — and they’re available to share for free.

Districts across the United States can see the need for new professional development to coach teachers on the inner workings, use cases and hazards of AI tools, but many are waiting for more clarity or consensus.

Educators and technologists alike say the genie is out of the bottle with AI, and understanding the technology will be critical for all students — how it works, potential uses, the ethics around it and what it will do.