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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:

Facing a technology that already has such immense capabilities – built on, modeled after, and in many ways now exceeding human powers – the Institute’s fundamental challenge and most important goal must be to nurture and protect our shared humanity, and to value the MIT community, its members, and their flourishing above all.

Published on August 13, 2026.

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Many of Beijing’s tech companies are in the Zhongguancun district, a cluster of office complexes set on land that, during the imperial era, served as a burial ground for palace eunuchs. For a generation, Zhongguancun has evolved with each passing fashion in tech. These days, advertisements for A.I. products are rapidly replacing washed-out ads for the metaverse.
~ Evan Osnos via The New Yorker

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