Nature

From Trojan horses to AI-proof exams: how professors are tackling students’ AI use

Academics worldwide are rethinking their assessment approaches — from developing exams that artificial-intelligence tools can ...
Government Technology

University of Tampa Mandates AI Literacy Class for Sophomores

In place of a former requirement that all sophomores take a digital literacy class on Python, the University of Tampa will ...

There's an invasive Burmese python in my backyard. Now what do I do?

It's not common for someone to find a python in their backyard or garage in Florida, but if they do there are steps to follow ...

Tutorial unites optical brain imaging tools in a single Python framework

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measures brain activity optically based on changes in cortical blood flow.
Wall Street Journal

Pastors Using AI to Help Write Sermons Grapple With Where to Draw the Line

OKLAHOMA CITY—On a Saturday afternoon about 20 hours before he was due to preach, Darrell Stetler II sat behind a two-monitor workstation crammed into the sound booth of his church, a slide deck ...
The Palm Beach Post

Guns? Weapons hunters can use in Florida's python challenge

Florida holds an annual 10-day Python Challenge to control the invasive Burmese python population. Participants compete for prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for removing the most pythons. The ...
Wired

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...
XDA Developers

I tried Python in Excel with no coding experience and here's what I learned

Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New Media journalism, she has always been passionate about diving ...
New York Magazine

The People Falsely Accused of Using AI

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...
The Conversation

More and more teachers and students are using AI – even though it might do more harm than good

K-12 teachers and students across the country are increasingly using AI in and out of classrooms, whether it is teachers turning to AI to refine lesson plans or students asking AI to help them ...
NPR

A college student's perspective on using AI in class

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...
Harvard Business Review

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...