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Future of AI

News on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Libraries

Saturday, June 7, 2025

AI reveals hidden language patterns and likely authorship in the Bible

Graphical representation of the team's results. By comparing word usage and sentence patterns, their AI-based statistical model identified three distinct writing styles, or scribal traditions, shown here in yellow, blue and green. Credit: Faigenbaum-Golovin et al.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ai-reveals-hidden-language-patterns.html

Monday, June 2, 2025

We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Saturday, May 31, 2025

College Professors Turn Back to Blue Books to Combat ChatGPT

As college students use ChatGPT to complete take-home tests, finish homework and write essays, professors are using blue books, or inexpensive, stapled exam booklets with a blue cover and lightly lined pages, to ChatGPT-proof the classroom.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/college-professors-turn-back-to-blue-books-to-combat-chatgpt/492450

Friday, May 30, 2025

The Amazing, but Unsettling, Value of AI for Medical Diagnosis (a personal story)

For over 20 years, I’ve lived with peripheral neuropathy—a quiet background of constant numbness, tingling, and pain-causing supersensitivity in my feet that, until recently, stayed mostly contained.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/the-amazing-but-unsettling-value-of-ai.html

Results from the "Students and AI" Survey and Collaborative Webinar

"It’s true - @stevehargadon is a national treasure." @markjotter "Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.stevehargadon.com/2025/05/results-from-students-and-ai-survey-and.html

CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

Artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs — if Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei is to be believed, at least.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/anthropic-ai-destroy-jobs