ChatGPT

A dissent letter with more than 700 signatures questions the University of Colorado system’s partnership with OpenAI, sharing concerns over data privacy, academic integrity, student input and AI governance.

A Colorado school district has blocked access to ChatGPT on district-issued devices, in light of the chatbot's easily skirted age verification process, opaque group chats and ability to generate explicit materials.

The University of Colorado System Office will cover the $2 million cost of access for 100,000 users in the first year, with other campuses picking up the tab for their individual costs in later years.

A webinar hosted by OpenAI this week spotlighted how school districts in Illinois, Texas and Arizona implemented and trained staff to use ChatGPT for instruction, operations and governance.

At a State of Education forum hosted by the Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce, school and college officials agreed that artificial intelligence has already become an essential tool for both teachers and students.

OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, says it will roll out parental controls in October. When that happens, school officials such as family coordinators may be needed to help parents understand and use them.

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.

In glossy AI advertisements bought by the billions of dollars tech companies are making off schools, the classroom is portrayed as a student-centered, personalized learning space. But is that truly what AI is creating?

A technology-focused charter school in Oklahoma City uses a state-of-the-art school garden to teach students about planning, data collection, species identification, hydroponic plant beds and gardening-related apps.

To find their way in a changing job market in which employers are replacing interns with AI, college grads must adapt faster than the technology trying to displace them, while jumping into more advanced work.

Acceptable uses of AI should not promote anti-intellectualism, which Richard Hofstadter described as "resentment of the life of the mind ... and a disposition to constantly minimize the value of that life."

A technology conference hosted by Thompson School District in Colorado offered ideas for tools and lessons that teachers could take back to their classrooms, including how they might use AI to promote critical thinking.

A history teacher at Richland High School uses AI for image generation, to search curriculum rundowns to see if he’s missed anything, and for the high school tabletop role-playing game club that he advises.

Specifically designed for faculty, MonarchMind gives users access to ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama on a secure, university-run system that does not share chat data with outside parties or use it to train AI models.

Cal State’s deputy vice-chancellor of academic and student affairs, its chief information officer, and a San Francisco State University anthropology professor take different stances on a $16.9 million AI initiative.

A new AI-powered app aims to improve U.S. math proficiency by giving college students one-on-one math support while cutting educators’ workload by taking on course planning, assignment creation and grading.

Plus, OpenAI hits its 1 millionth paying user, a new app analyzes speech energy patterns to predict hypertension, and Americans used over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023.

One Kentucky city is proving that generative AI projects are within reach for even small municipalities. At a cost of less than $200, Covington has launched a quirky LLM-powered chatbot to boost economic development.