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Do universities have a future in Trump's plans to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of AI?
The recently announced Genesis Mission sets out to transform how science is done in the US. Yet it's a mission that places national labs—and not…
 • Andrew Maynard
A Kindergartener's Guide to AI, Qualia, Affordances, and Embodied Intelligence
Forget bats and black-and-white rooms, one of the best guides to the esoteric world of AI and experiential intelligence is a 2013 book written for…
 • Andrew Maynard
Heads-up on new AI book
Mark your calendar: AI and the Art of Being Human launching Oct 14
 • Andrew Maynard
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?
 • Andrew Maynard
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…
 • Andrew Maynard
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?
 • Andrew Maynard
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
 • Andrew Maynard
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 ...
 • Andrew Maynard
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…
 • Andrew Maynard
What students *really* think about artificial intelligence
My colleague Sean and I sat down with two ASU undergrads for a candid conversation about all things AI. It's a conversation anyone working in higher…
 • Andrew Maynard
US and China Vie for AI Leadership in K-12 Education
Two new national plans promise to overhaul classrooms with AI. Here’s how the US and China differ – and overlap
 • Andrew Maynard
When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World
This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the intersection between AI, learning, and education – and gets really speculative as we think about…
 • Andrew Maynard
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