Tag: education
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Free ChatGPT Access Just Reached 100,000 More Teachers
OpenAI just added 55 more school systems to ChatGPT for Teachers, spread across 20 states. That puts the free program in front of more than 100,000 additional teachers and staff on top of everyone already using it. Baltimore, Boise, Sarasota County, Virginia Beach, and Northside in San Antonio are all on the new list, alongside…
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Yale and Johns Hopkins Just Gave Up on AI Detectors
A handful of major universities just admitted something a lot of professors already suspected. Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have all pulled back on using AI detection tools, and the reason is simple: the tools don’t work well enough to bet a student’s academic record on. Waterloo went furthest. It disabled Turnitin’s…
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Anthropic Is Now Hiring Through AI
Anthropic just announced Claude Corps, a $150 million fellowship that pays early-career people $85,000 to work full-time at nonprofits for a year, learning AI and applying it to real problems. Here is what makes this different from most fellowship programs: there is no degree requirement, no prior AI background required, no application essay. You need…
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New York Just Made Schools Check AI for Bias
The New York City Department of Education issued preliminary guidance that all AI tools used in the school system must pass a bias and equity review before deployment. This applies to a system of 1.1 million students. The bar: every tool has to demonstrate it does not systematically disadvantage students by race, gender, disability, or…
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The OECD and EU Just Published a Global AI Education Blueprint
The European Commission and the OECD launched something yesterday that I think matters more than the press coverage suggests. It’s called the AI Literacy Framework — AILit — and it’s a shared blueprint for teaching AI to children in primary and secondary schools. The final version dropped June 18 at the European Digital Education Hub’s…