From calculators to ChatGPT, the introduction of new technology into schools has long inspired frenzied discourse: Will it revolutionize the system or rot kids’ brains? It often does neither.
Since the start of the AI boom, teachers have been tasked with figuring out if LLMs are helpful tools or a cheat code. This is how they’re bringing AI to their curricula.
Parents, teachers, and experts have big opinions about the impacts of AI on young people and education. But what do the students themselves say?
For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?
Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
This week on Uncanny Valley, we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do?
Software engineers are finding OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model is helping them think through coding problems—but isn’t much better at actual coding.
The OpenAI CEO addressed GPT-5 backlash, the AI bubble—and why he’s willing to spend trillions of dollars to win.
WIRED found over 100 YouTube channels using AI to create lazy fanfiction-style videos. Despite being obviously fake, there’s a psychological reason people are falling for them.
