Artificial Intelligence

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

Apr 24 •

OpenAI and Studio Ghibli style: Theft or homage?

This week's episode of Modem Futura explores how OpenAI's new image generator is stirring up old questions about art, authorship, innovation, and a…

Apr 8 •

What does responsible innovation mean in an age of accelerating AI?

The new AI 2027 scenario suggests artificial intelligence may outpace our ability to develop it responsibly. How seriously should we take this?

Apr 6 •

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…

Apr 1 •

Reimagining learning and education in an age of AI

Reflections and provocations from a keynote given at the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference

Mar 30 •

Tech Trends 2025: Living Intelligence, Quantum Breakthroughs, and Beyond

This week's episode of Modem Futura focuses on Amy Webb's Future Today Strategy Group’s 2025 Tech Trends Report

Mar 25 •

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…

Mar 22 •

Hype, Hope, and the Human Element in AI and Education

This week's episode of Modem Futura touches on OpenAI's rumored $20k AI tiers, the Ethic of Care in classrooms, and how Dewey’s “four impulses” can…

Mar 18 •

Rethinking Higher Education in the Age of AI

How embracing playful experimentation can redefine universities in an era of limitless intelligence

Mar 16 •

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…

Mar 15 •

The "hard" concept of care in technology innovation

Does a lack of care in how we develop and use new technologies risk turning us and our creations into "monsters?"

Mar 9 •

Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the changing relationship between photographer and photograph as AI transforms the art of image making

Mar 4 •

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