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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?
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Andrew Maynard
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Vibe coding moral panic
Not a panic about vibe coding, but an idle thought that led down a rabbit hole that turned into an online timeline on tech driven angst through the ages
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Andrew Maynard
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Exploring AI through cause-and-effect
A new online tool that uses cause-and-effect relationships to explore and better-understand responsible AI development and use
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Andrew Maynard
Designing the technological futures we aspire to
Why transformative technology demands responsible innovation — and the critical questions we need to be asking before it's too late
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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…
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A new framework for guiding AI agent oversight
As AI agents become more prevalent and powerful, a new paper outlines a framework for better-understanding how to govern and regulate them.
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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
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Andrew Maynard
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…
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