Artificial Intelligence

A new report from Harvard's Center for Digital Thriving found that some teens feel growing pressure to use AI to keep up with peers, yet they're deliberately underperforming on work so as not to be accused of using AI.

Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are using artificial intelligence to more quickly analyze changes in bacteria after the introduction of antibiotics, reducing the time from days to hours.

As school districts move from early experimentation with AI toward questions of governance, security and trust, they need practical guidance about when an application requires IT review and how to recognize red flags.

A new partnership between the Alabama Community College System and the nonprofit Manufacturing Institute will provide AI skills training to thousands of current and future manufacturing workers over the next two years.

The move enables the transformation of fragmented data into accurate intelligence for public safety agencies to employ during critical situations. It follows a partnership earlier this year.

Katy Ruckle has been Washington’s chief privacy officer for six years and says “AI has overturned the applecart” when it comes to protecting sensitive data across state IT.

Nationwide, AI data centers have drawn backlash amid concerns about water and power use, noise and the technology itself. At a national gathering of state CIOs, those IT leaders talked about how they've been drawn in.

Feedback from thousands of Advanced Placement teachers is informing new lessons in AP Computer Science Principles and new limits on when artificial intelligence can be used in AP Seminar.

Delaware CIO Bob Osmond, speaking with GovTech at the NASCIO annual conference in San Diego, said artificial intelligence can supercharge the state’s capacity when it comes to data management.

Student experiences with AI at Louisiana State University vary widely, as the university does not have an institutional AI policy and allows professors to implement the technology at their own discretion.

The annual survey of state CIOs laid out how IT leaders have found common ground on AI best practices — and where they’re going next. It also covered a bevy of changes, political and practical, those CIOs are facing.

Some of the companies building the most powerful AI systems recently reached out to global leaders calling for government regulation amid concerns about how fast the systems are developing.

In a webinar this week hosted by American Enterprise Institute, panelists noted that the persistent memory that could make artificial intelligence genuinely useful for education also creates privacy and governance risks.

As states consider new tools to regulate and oversee some of the most far-reaching AI models, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has issued an executive order seeking standards and criteria around AI safety.

The Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Syracuse University will research aspects of security, multidomain intelligence, socio-cognitive dynamics, governance and policy.

The California Community Colleges system has made AI a budget priority for the coming year, planning AI professional development and literacy efforts, a grant fund for pilot projects and a partnership with UC San Diego.

An executive order creates a review process for large data centers, adds a public dashboard and task force and signals a push to end a key tax exemption. The facilities’ costs are under scrutiny nationwide.

Unsettling news stories about AI in the media may prompt school leaders to take a harder look at ed-tech tools that incorporate the technology, learn more about it and be deliberate in their approach.