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

Leaning into learning means creating a new “social contract” between teachers and students. All of us who teach at MIT will need to be prepared to help students understand both that the process of education is necessarily a productive struggle, and that the most important product of their education is not a GPA or a diploma but themselves: their personal growth and intellectual maturity and the development of their own imagination, insight, and judgment.

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We are only beginning to understand the dangers that the internet—especially social media—can pose to young people’s development. We’re seeing compulsive use, disrupted sleep, cyberbullying, and exposure to harmful content. AI could magnify many of these risks by making them more persuasive and difficult to escape, and we should not wait another generation to start taking them seriously.
~ Bill Gates via Gates Notes

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

For their part, students fear being wrongly accused of AI cheating and are increasingly frustrated by instructors’ use of AI in areas that demand a human touch, such as grading, assignment creating, and feedback. Such an underground river of mutual suspicion is no foundation for a healthy classroom.

Published on August 13, 2026.

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When I was growing up in Seattle, I didn’t have that many friends aside from a few other boys who were like me. It took hard work and a lot of help from my mom to develop my social skills so I could relate to different kinds of people. I still draw on those lessons today at the age of 70.
~ Bill Gates via Gates Notes

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To build their thinking machines, the largest A.I. firms have undertaken one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in American history. Not even during the peak years of building the railway, interstate highways or fiber optic networks did Americans spend, proportionally, what these companies will spend this year. The price tag of this boom now exceeds that of the Apollo space program and the Korean War. If it cannot secure new land to build on, this entire project will sputter out.
~ Tanner Greer via The New York Times

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We are more than a trillion dollars deep into our national wager on machine intelligence. The climb in the stock market has buoyed the fortunes of Americans with a real stake in it — but has done very little for everyone else. Half of the country’s adults do not even use artificial intelligence chatbots. Only a quarter of American adults use these services daily, and often for small things: answering idle questions, hunting down recipes, softening otherwise irate emails to their co-workers. For much of our country, Artificial Intelligence is nothing more than that thing the kids use to cheat on their homework.
~ Tanner Greer via The New York Times

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