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Can AI write your PhD dissertation for you?
I spent four days trying to get OpenAI's new tool Deep Research to research and write a complete dissertation. This is what I discovered.
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Andrew Maynard
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Does OpenAI's Deep Research signal the end of human-only scholarship?
Having got my hands on Sam Altman's latest AI offering yesterday, I'm beginning to wonder when research and scholarship that isn't augmented by AI will…
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What should we be teaching students now to prepare them for the future?
Yuval Noah Harari believes we have no idea what to teach young people to prepare for the future. I disagree.
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Is this how AI will transform the world over the next decade?
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has just published a radical vision of an AI-accelerated future. It's audacious, compelling, and a must-read for anyone…
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In Bill Joy's "Why The Future Doesn't Need us" AI is nowhere, and everywhere
23 years ago, the Sun Microsystems co-founder raised serious concerns about out-of-control technology innovation. As we grapple with the latest wave of…
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Are educators falling behind the AI curve?
As tech companies release a slew of generative AI updates, there's a growing risk that educational practices and policies are struggling to keep up with…
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Reimagining learning and education in an age of AI
Reflections and provocations from a keynote given at the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference
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The Artisanal Intellectual in the Age of AI
How is advanced artificial intelligence forcing a rethink of the value of human intellectual labor?
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AI in Higher Education: Students need playgrounds, not playpens
AI capabilities are moving so fast, and the implications are so profound, that we restrict the ability of students to learn through curiosity…
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When Agentic AI Takes Charge – First impressions of Manus
Having just got my hands on the new general AI agent from Manus I was excited to see what it could do. So I asked it to design, conduct and write up a…
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Five AI-generated podcast episodes that'll make you think
Google's personal AI assistant NotebookLM can now generate full-on AI podcasts. The results are amazing. But they're also concerning.
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Artificial intelligence, agency, and the emergence of humans as AI amanuenses
A thought experiment in how human-AI roles and relationships may change in the future
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