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Holding on to our humanity in an age of AI
AIs are becoming startlingly good at emulating what we do. But what happens when they start to influence who we are and how we behave?
Aug 31
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Andrew Maynard
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Unpacking Agentic AI in Education
A quick plug for this week's episode of Modem Futura with Punya Mishra, which dives into what agentic AI does and doesn't mean in education, and why…
Aug 26
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Andrew Maynard
3
5
Using AI to Assess Student-AI Conversations
Can ChatGPT be used to extract useful learning insights from long and meandering conversations between learners and AI?
Aug 24
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Andrew Maynard
13
Stop asking students "Show Me Your Prompt!"
As educators continue to grapple with students using AI for assignments, we need to move beyond the idea that showing the original prompt is useful
Aug 17
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Andrew Maynard
13
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The Scared Witless Educator's Guide to Surviving ChatGPT GPT-5
If you're panicking over how to survive in world where every student has access to one of the most powerful AI's ever made, I have a plan ...
Aug 10
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Andrew Maynard
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CodeSignal turned my book into an AI-assisted professional development course
As universities and companies scramble to bring agentic AI to learning, I was intrigued by CodeSignal's approach to using AI in a new course inspired by…
Aug 3
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Andrew Maynard
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July 2025
Spiky surfaces and jagged edges: Moving beyond what's known in an Age of AI
Do we need to move beyond simple models of knowledge creation and discovery as AI becomes increasingly capable?
Jul 27
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Andrew Maynard
15
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America's AI Action Plan: "Build, Baby, Build"
The White House's just-released AI Action Plan prioritizes speed, power, and US AI supremacy, over pretty much everything else. This will likely be good…
Jul 23
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Andrew Maynard
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Still Human: 61 Inspiring paintings from an upcoming generation
Amidst today's flood of AI-generated art, these paintings by Chinese children speak with a rare clarity about empathy, creativity, and the soul of what…
Jul 20
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Andrew Maynard
6
2
What's Grok 4's "Moral Character"?
With the launch of xAI's Grok 4 – heralded by Elon Musk as "the world's smartest AI" – I was interested to see how it's "moral character" stacked up…
Jul 13
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Andrew Maynard
10
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Motive, Means, and Opportunity: The Growing Risk of AI Manipulation
Two recent studies reveal how frontier AI models may leverage the ability to manipulate users to achieve their goals — if given the access and…
Jul 6
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Andrew Maynard
13
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June 2025
Here are this year's top ten emerging technologies from the World Economic Forum
Staying true to form, this year's list includes technologies that may not be on your radar but should be – from nanozymes and generative watermarking to…
Jun 24
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Andrew Maynard
13
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