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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
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Andrew Maynard
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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 ...
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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…
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Andrew Maynard
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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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Andrew Maynard
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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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Andrew Maynard
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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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Andrew Maynard
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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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