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• I was an AI skeptic until these 5 tools changed my mind - Jack Wallen, ZDnet
  It's taken me a while to come around, but I've become a fan of certain AI tools -- when used for specific purposes. I've even found some of those tools to be very helpful throughout my day (so much so that I haven't used Google's search engine in weeks). That, my friends, is refreshing. How […]
• Introducing GPT-4.5 - OpenAI
  Early testing shows that interacting with GPT‑4.5 feels more natural. Its broader knowledge base, improved ability to follow user intent, and greater “EQ” make it useful for tasks like improving writing, programming, and solving practical problems. We also expect it to hallucinate less. We’re sharing GPT‑4.5 as a research preview to better understand its strengths […]
• Fewer Jobs, College Options May Push Rural Gen Zers to Move - Andrea Malek Ash, Galllup
  Rural Gen Zers are 19 percentage points less likely than those living in urban areas to strongly agree or agree that they can find a good job where they live, and 16 points less likely to say they can get a college degree. Workforce preparation opportunities are also perceived to be in low supply for […]
• Dean’s Dilemma: How to Use AI to Advance the College - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
  We have entered an era of greater scrutiny and fewer resources in higher education. How might AI enable deans to become more effective and efficient in administering the college? The challenges are proliferating while funding is deteriorating. Fortunately, the AI options to accomplish more with less funding are expanding. As of the end of February, […]
• The next wave of AI is here: Autonomous AI agents are amazing—and scary - Tom Barnett, Fast Company
  The relentless hype around AI makes it difficult to separate the signal from the noise. So it’s understandable if you’ve tuned out recent talk about autonomous AI agents. A word of advice: Don’t. The significance of agentic AI may actually exceed the hype.  An Autonomous AI agent can interact with the environment, make decisions, take […]
• Building leaders from the ground up - McKinsey
  Certain characteristics—including optimism, continuous learning, and stewardship—are especially critical for leaders to thrive in today’s volatile business environment. Here’s how to develop tomorrow’s leaders.https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/building-leaders-from-the-ground-up
• Gen Z isn’t quiet quitting. They’re rejecting outdated leadership - Jeff Leblanc, Fast Company
  The phrase “quiet quitting” has become a catch-all for blaming Gen Z workers for workplace disengagement. Older generations stereotype them as unmotivated, unwilling to go the extra mile, and too demanding. But here’s the reality: Gen Z isn’t disengaged—they’re just done tolerating bad leadership. My research, including surveys, interviews, and case studies across industries, shows […]
• 1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI - Ingrid Lunden,
  The U.K. government is pushing forward with plans to attract more AI companies to the region by changing copyright law. The proposed changes would allow developers to train AI models on artists’ content found online — without permission or payment — unless creators proactively “opt out.” Not everyone is marching to the same beat, though. […]
• Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk - Kyle Wiggers, Tech Crunch
  Over the weekend, users on social media reported that when asked, “Who is the biggest misinformation spreader?” with the “Think” setting enabled, Grok 3 noted in its “chain of thought” that it was explicitly instructed not to mention Donald Trump or Elon Musk. The chain of thought is the “reasoning” process the model uses to […]
• When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds - Harry Booth, Time
  Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the 1990s by playing by the rules, today’s advanced AI models like OpenAI’s o1-preview are less scrupulous. When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess […]
• A College Degree Isn’t for Everyone - Susan H. Greenberg, Inside Higher Ed
  Kathleen deLaski unpacks her new book, which envisions higher education as a stepladder to skills that learners collect over a lifetime and present to employers. In her eloquent new book, Who Needs College Anymore? Imagining a Future Where Degrees Won’t Matter (Harvard Education Press), Kathleen deLaski, a former journalist who founded the Education Design Lab […]
• AI doesn’t shortchange learning. It enhances it - SF Chronicle
  AI doesn’t shortchange learning. It enhances it - SF ChronicleThis spring, one of the first post-ChatGPT cohorts will graduate from business schools. Many students will use artificial intelligence to assist in completing their final assignments. As a graduating Stanford business student, I think that’s a good thing. AI is rapidly reshaping higher education. Recent surveys […]
• Managing online learning burnout via investigating the role of loneliness during COVID-19 - Hongxia Li & Juan Yang, BMC Psychology
  Learning burnout, which is a negative state of learning and seriously reduces learning engagement, has become more prevalent in online instruction. Especially during the COVID-19, loneliness during the online learning has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers, who have found that it exacerbates the risk of social media addiction and increase rates of […]
• New chapter by Sass and Martin explores AI’s role in community-based learning - Boise State News
  A new book chapter by Margaret Sass, a faculty member in the School for the Digital Future, and Brian Martin of the university’s eCampus Center examines how artificial intelligence is transforming service-learning and community-based learning. Their chapter, “Revolutionizing Community Engagement and Impact With AI,” is featured as Chapter 12 in Enhancing the Scholarship of Teaching […]
• Study: Generative AI Could Inhibit Critical Thinking - Chris Paoli, Campus Technology
  A new study on how knowledge workers engage in critical thinking found that workers with higher confidence in generative AI technology tend to employ less critical thinking to AI-generated outputs than workers with higher confidence in personal skills, who tended to apply more critical thinking to verify, refine, and critically integrate AI responses. The study […]
• Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist - Juraj Gottweis and Vivek Natarajan, Google
  Motivated by unmet needs in the modern scientific discovery process and building on recent AI advances, including the ability to synthesize across complex subjects and to perform long-term planning and reasoning, we developed an AI co-scientist system. The AI co-scientist is a multi-agent AI system that is intended to function as a collaborative tool for […]
• Want to measure how much college graduates make? Timing matters - Lilah Burke, Higher Ed Dive
  Associate and bachelor’s degree holders have similar earnings right after graduation, but the differences widen over time, research finds.  Lawmakers have long pushed for more policies to hold colleges accountable for their graduates’ earnings. But which year they use to measure earnings can strongly impact how programs perform on accountability metrics, recent research from the […]
• San Jose State University Creates 'AI Librarian' Position - Government Technology
  Thinking ahead at what artificial intelligence (AI) means for academic assets and services, San Jose State University (SJSU) last week announced a new job title: AI librarian. One of the first dedicated AI librarians at any university, according to a news release last week, Sharesly Rodriguez, who has worked at the university library since 2020, […]
• 3 Things About AI and the Future of Work - Cameron Sublett and Lauren Mason, Inside Higher Ed
  First, AI is not new. ChatGPT continues to captivate attention because of its striking ability to reason, write and speak like a human. Yet, the science of developing machines and systems to mimic human functions has existed for decades. Many people are hearing about machine learning for the first time, but it has powered their […]
• Why Workers Should Evaluate Their Managers - Shing-Yi Wang, Knowledge at Wharton
  What happens when workers get a say in evaluating their managers? At one Chinese carmaker, the results speak for themselves: happier teams, better leadership, and a noticeable boost in productivity — without a single downside. Those are key findings of a recent study by Wharton associate professor of business economics and public policy Shing-Yi Wang, […]