Three unconventional responses to the AI assessment challenge in higher education

Brown professor says take-home exam revealed AI-assisted cheating scandal

A Brown University economics professor says a take-home exam intended to accommodate students traumatized by a campus tragedy instead exposed what he believes is one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted cheating scandals in Ivy League history. According to Inside Higher Ed, Brown economics professor Roberto Serrano said he became convinced that widespread AI use []...Click to read more

AI and economy fuel stress for 40% of DSE candidates: Hong Kong youth group poll

Fewer Hong Kong university entrance exam candidates reported high stress levels compared with last year, but nearly 40 per cent cited artificial intelligence (AI) and the economic outlook as their top sources of stress, a survey has found. Releasing the findings of its “Further Education Planning Survey” on Thursday, the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups attributed the pressure to concerns that AI would increasingly replace entry-level jobs. The poll surveyed 1,241 secondary students,...

Stanford was their golden ticket - could AI help or hinder that?

The BBC spoke with Stanford University graduates about what they really think about artificial intelligence.

ISTELive 26 to focus on AI, student empowerment

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“Who Funds That?” Episode 11: What to Make of AI Opposition

Artificial intelligence: what does it mean? Is it taking all the water? Is it taking all the jobs? Are foreign interests, radical socialists, and cynical AI companies misleading the public about what AI is doing to America? Our colleague Parker Thayer joins us to discuss. Listen to “Who Funds That? EP11: What to Make of []

Liberal education in the U.S., the AI challenge and the pope * WorldNetDaily * by Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Wire

Source link At a mid-April dinner at a D.C. think tank, I was asked to offer a few words on education and artificial intelligence. I observed that constantly improving AI

AI enrolls in college, gets financial aid, drops out of college, repeats trick. See, it IS smarter than us already [Fail]

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More ‘scrutiny’ of coursework plans to protect exams from AI

Ofqual chief warns against 'the idea AI-generated output is a substitute for human endeavour' The post More ‘scrutiny’ of coursework plans to protect exams from AI first appeared on Schools Week.

A Potentially Terrible AI Economic Dilemma

Austerity for the non-AI economy?

Sharing a love for calculus

The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll be glad to know that MIT is also working on a deeply important but comparatively old-fashioned challenge: American high school students’ startlingly uneven access

Competition intensifies for Anthropic and OpenAI ahead of IPOs

Renewed challenge from open-source models raises stakes on AI labs to make their case

AI-enabled cheating is forcing some schools to go analog

Felix Kästle/picture alliance via Getty Images Colleges are trying to adapt to the rise of AI and promote students’ independent thinking. The University of Chicago Law School just rolled out an in-class laptop ban for first-year students. As AI becomes more integrated in the legal profession, educators are struggling to strike a balance. AI is []

When it comes to AI nothing's right, Silicon Valley is torn

In California, the rise of artificial intelligence no longer generates the unanimous enthusiasm it once did. Anxiety is mounting, especially among students and engineers, as jobs have been cut and democratic risks have grown more threatening.

Can Colleges AI-Proof Their Students?

Higher ed claims to foster critical-thinking skills. It has no real system for developing them. By Scott Carlson Higher ed claims to foster critical-thinking skills. It has no real system for developing them.

U.N. AI Panel Warns Governance Lags Behind Rapid Advances in AI

A United Nations-backed independent panel of scientists warned on Wednesday that advances in artificial intelligence are outpacing both scientific understanding and governments' ability to regulate the technology, urging policymakers to act quickly to manage mounting risks while harnessing AI's potential

Why building AI for schools is harder than building a chatbot: inside Smartschool’s approach to exam prep

Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but performing well on high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT. On the face of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Academic weighs in: Should we fear an AI bubble bust?

Academic weighs in: Should we fear an AI bubble bust?

AI didn’t break higher education—It exposed the credential trap

As tuition soars past crisis levels and AI reshapes the classroom, students are rationally optimizing for diplomas over discovery. Call it the degree trap.

CHPY's Income Appeal Over SOXX As Uncertainty Rips Through The AI Trade

CHPY's Income Appeal Over SOXX As Uncertainty Rips Through The AI Trade

Session de rattrapage au Baccalauréat : les précisions du ministère de l’Éducation nationale

À partir de cette année, les candidats au Baccalauréat unique auront droit à une session de rattrapage. Quelques heures après le lancement des épreuves de cet examen national, le ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Alphabétisation, de l’Enseignement technique et de la Formation professionnelle a donné des précisions sur cette innovation. Elle s’inscrit, selon le département, dans la [] The post Session de rattrapage au Baccalauréat : les précisions du ministère de l’Éducation nationale first appeared on Guineematin.com.

Satya Nadella está haciendo la pregunta correcta

La idea más importante sobre inteligencia artificial en estos momentos puede que no provenga de un artículo científico, del lanzamiento de un nuevo modelo o de un benchmark. Puede que provenga de un breve ensayo publicado en X por el CEO de Microsoft, Satya Nadella. En él, Nadella sostiene que el futuro de la empresa

UC weighs return of SAT amid early signs of changing views and faculty pressure

Six years after dropping the SAT and ACT, the University of California is weighing a return to standardized testing following intense pressure from faculty who say incoming students lack basic math and reasoning skills.

Peter Linneman On AI's Trajectory, Trump's Tariffs And Misleading Inflation Numbers

Trillions of investment dollars are pouring into the advancement of artificial intelligence, touching nearly every sector of the economy while stoking fears that the technology could make American jobs obsolete. However, AI isn’t going to be the...

Reporter's Notebook: Lawmakers wrestle over whether AI can make the grade in America's classrooms

The Senate is wrestling with how AI should be used in classrooms as lawmakers raise concerns about student learning, privacy, and cognitive impacts.

Overqualified and Underemployed: The Desperate New Strategy Gen-Z Is Using to Get Hired

Terrified of AI and a brutal entry-level market, 20 percent of recent graduates are intentionally downshifting their expectations. It’s a desperate move that could backfire on employers.

Thinking Beyond AI in College: How English Major Students Can Explore Literature through Geography

English literature classrooms in universities across the globe are grappling with an unprecedented technological force, which is, artificial intelligence. We are currently navigating contested ideas of what are the implications of being an English major student at college, considering that AI can draft assignment essays, research proposals and conference papers. It is imperative here for us as [] The post Thinking Beyond AI in College: How English Major Students Can Explore Literature through Geography appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching Learning.

Delaware committee drafts plan to test companies run by AI

A Delaware committee that has been studying the business uses of artificial intelligence proposed legislation earlier this month to temporarily ease state regulations on companies deploying the fast-growing technology. The post Delaware committee drafts plan to test companies run by AI appeared first on Spotlight Delaware.

Public University Boards and Artificial Intelligence

Public University Boards and Artificial Intelligence

Universities Spent Years Missing the AI Warning Signs. Now They Pay a Machine to Find Them.

AI is transforming every corner of higher education — from admissions to advising — faster than universities can write the rules to govern it.

How Could Trump Give Americans a Stake in AI Companies?

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he is exploring ways to ensure Americans benefit directly from the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, raising the possibility of the government acquiring stakes in leading AI companies. The idea comes as firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic pursue valuations that could make them among the most valuable companies [] The post How Could Trump Give Americans a Stake in AI Companies? appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.

Faculty: Defence Industries Minister Paul Papalia launches fellowship to boost AI skills in WA

A prestigious program to encourage top science and maths graduates from local universities to boost WA’s artificial intelligence skills could also help arrest the State’s brain drain.

How did basic literacy stop being a prerequisite for college?

American classrooms are seeing a decline in reading and math scores, which is a civilizational issue as it is linked to a decline in IQ scores, and is exacerbated by the use of AI which weakens judgment and the ability to think for oneself.

UN report sees enormous potential benefits and big risks from artificial intelligence (AI)

UN report sees enormous potential benefits and big risks from artificial intelligence (AI)

Opinion: In the Age of AI, Everyone Should Be Hiring Theater Kids

This spring, an estimated 3.9 million high school students — one of the largest classes in American history — graduated into a world their education never fully prepared them for. They are, in many ways, the first graduating class of the artificial intelligence era, launching into adulthood at a moment when the world around them []

Down 30%, Is this Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock a Screaming Buy?

Axon looks oversold in the SaaSpocalypse.

The glitch in the system: Why SA universities are turning off the ‘AI polygraph’

By 2026, the initial panic that greeted the launch of generative AI in higher education has transitioned into a complex, high-stakes standoff. At the heart of this conflict are AI checkers – software designed to catch students using tools like ChatGPT. However, a growing number of institutions, including major South African universities, are now switching []

« L’ampleur de la révolution de l’IA conduit à repenser l’organisation économique américaine. Et Trump à briser le tabou des nationalisations »

CHRONIQUE. Des prises de participation dans les sociétés stratégiques liées à l’intelligence artificielle à leur nationalisation, il n’y a qu’un pas que pourrait franchir Donald Trump, selon les propo ...

Back to basics: Teachers adopt old-school methods to overcome AI use

Many students now admit they “struggle to imagine learning without AI”, while others say they never study without it. Experts fear this could be setting kids up to fail.

AI is Taking Over English Lessons in Israel

All middle schools will switch to AI-driven English software this upcoming school year to fight teacher shortages and customize lesson plans

ISTELive 26: What Does an AI-Ready Graduate Look Like?

As artificial intelligence’s capabilities continue to make themselves evident in the classroom, the technology is quickly moving from a novelty to a necessity. To that end, at the ISTELive 2026 conference in Orlando, Fla., the organization unveiled its expanded Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate. Joseph South, chief innovation officer for ISTE+ASCD, said that in identifying trends and themes involving AI in teaching and learning, his team noticed a gap. While early frameworks focused on AI literacy, teaching students the fundamentals of AI and how to interact with it, guidance didn’t go much

Anthropic is bringing on former Fed chair Ben Bernanke to its AI oversight board

The Nobel laureate and former Federal Reserve chair will advise the AI company on how artificial intelligence is affecting economies and workforces

Fed policymakers' inflation worries weighed on rate cut outlook at Warsh's first meeting

FOMC minutes reveal policymakers debated rate hikes amid scenarios where AI demand, Middle East conflict or tariffs keep inflation elevated.