Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...
An overwhelming percentage of educators fear students’ increasing reliance on generative artificial intelligence tools to complete assignments will hinder their critical thinking skills and make them ...
Under the current Trump administration, at both the state and federal level, far-right forces and wannabe dictators are smearing teachers, slashing public school funding, banning books, outlawing ...
A recent study by the Media Lab at MIT found that prolonged use of ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) chatbot, can have a harmful impact on the cognitive abilities of its users. Over four months, ...
A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...
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Pope Leo XIV speaks to members of the Centesimus Annus Foundation in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on May 17, 2025. The foundation promotes Catholic social teaching. (CNS ...
A few weeks ago, my ears perked up when a gaggle of middle school volleyball players in my car were talking about the teachers they don’t like; I have an unfortunate appetite for tweenage gossip, and ...
Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America. To the Editor: Re “We’re Just Not as Good at Thinking Anymore,” by David Brooks (column, April 11): As a ...