Recent Updates: AI in Education (2024–2026)
Last reviewed: March 2026
- EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: AI in Higher Education — Annual report tracking AI adoption trends across higher education institutions.
- Inside Higher Ed — AI Coverage 2024–2025 — Ongoing institutional policy and pedagogy coverage.
- UNESCO: Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research — Framework for ethical, equitable AI integration in educational contexts.
- EU AI Act (2024) — The world's first comprehensive AI regulation law, with specific provisions affecting education technology. Enforcement began August 2024.
- Chronicle of Higher Education: AI Package — Ongoing reporting on AI's impact on teaching, research, and academic integrity.
- AAUP: Artificial Intelligence, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance (2024) — Faculty perspective on governance, labor, and academic freedom implications of AI adoption.
- New York Times: AI Coverage (2024–2025) — Broad coverage of societal AI implications useful for classroom discussion.
- Stanford HAI: AI Index Report (Annual) — Comprehensive empirical data on AI capabilities, adoption, and social impact; useful for grounding classroom discussions in evidence.
Articles: AI in Education
- 'This is with us, it's going to be with us;' Campuses think Through AI Policies, Practices (3/24/24 WPTF)
- AI Will Shake Up Higher-Ed: Are Colleges Ready? (2/26/24 Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- Schools are taking too long to craft AI policy: Why that's a problem (2/19/24 Edweek)
- AI Eroding AI? A New Era for Artificial Intelligence (7/19/23 Faculty Focus)
- ChatGPT and the University's Existential Crisis (6/24/23 C.W. Howell)
- ChatGPT as Assistive Technology — How the tool may help students and faculty with ADHD (3/1/23 Inside Higher Ed)
- ChatGPT Failed my course: How bots may change assessments (2/22/23 ArsTechnica)
- Chegg faces a new threat with the rise of ChatGPT (2/14/23 NASDAQ)
- You're Not Going To Like How Colleges Respond to ChatGPT (2/3/23 Slate)
- Designing Assignments in the ChatGPT Era (1/31/23 Inside Higher Ed)
- It's Time to Step off the AI Panic Carousel Before We Harm our Students — Marc Watkins on Substack (1/30/23)
- Will ChatGPT Unflip the Classroom (1/30/23 Education Next)
- ChatGPT is Coming for Classrooms. Don't Panic (1/26/23 Wired)
- ChatGPT bot passes law school exam (1/25/23 CBS News)
- ChatGPT passes exams for MBA and Medical Licenses (1/24/23 Global News)
- Seeing Past the Dazzle of ChatGPT (Inside Higher Ed)
- ChatGPT: A Quick SWOT — by James Abaela (Blogpost)
- Transparency in Learning — by Maha Bali
- ChatGPT Is a Mirror of Our Times — by Philip Ball
- ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher Ed — by Autumm Caines
- Prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students — by Autumm Caines
- Raise Your Hand. Send the Email — by Karen Costa (Medium)
- Academic experts offer advice on ChatGPT — by Susan D'Agostino (Inside Higher Ed)
- Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence Tools — Tips and resources from Georgetown University
- Argument: Racism against White People? Sample Generated Text — by Anna Mills
- Pessimists Archive Newsletter: Before the AI Panic (est. 7 min read)
- CEO's Corner — AI is here – If we fight it, we'll lose and so will our students! — by Dara Ryder (est. 10 min read)
- ChatGPT Q&A for Learning Professions — by Peter Shea, et al
- How About We Put Learning at the Center? — By John Warner (est. 8 min read)
- Resources for Exploring ChatGPT and Higher Education — collection by Brian Alexander
- Will AI Make English Teachers Obsolete?
- What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching? (Edsurge)
Critiques and Warnings
- The Distributed AI Research Institute — Several research articles on current problems and issues with AI
- Professor Casey Fiesler's website on AI Ethics — links to a Google doc with further links to articles in AI and ethics
- Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart (Washington Post, 4/19/23)
- ChatGPT falsely accused me of sexually harassing my students. Can we really trust AI? — Jonathan Turley, USA Today
- On Generative AI, phantom citations, and social calluses — by Dave Karpf
- Video: Nick Bostrom — What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter Than We Are? (TED Talk)
- Podcast: Is Ethical AI Possible? — The Gray Area on Spotify
- Podcast: Don't Fall for the AI Hype with Timnit Gebru — Tech Won't Save Us
- Infographic: Teaching AI Ethics
- I'm a Congressman who Codes. A.I. Freaks Me Out (NYTimes Opinion by Ted Lieu)
- Microsoft's new AI can simulate anyone's voice with 3 seconds of audio (Arstechnica)
- 4Chan Users Embrace AI Voice Clone Tool To Generate Celebrity Hatespeech (The Verge)
- Awful AI — List of horrible uses of AI. Also includes list of protection and awareness tools.
- Critical Lenses in AI — Blog post by Iris Van Rooij with many links
- ChatGPT and the Hidden Bias of Language Models
- ChatGPT is Multilingual but monocultural, and it's learning your values
- The Only Sure Thing with AI is Writing Will Get Blander and the Rich Will Get Richer
- Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality (MIT study in Econometrica)
- OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers Making $2 an Hour to Filter Traumatic Content from ChatGPT
- How ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves (The Conversation)
- 'My AI Is Sexually Harassing Me': Replika Users Say the Chatbot Has Gotten Way Too Horny — by Samantha Cole (est. 12 min read)
- Confronting Tools of the Oppressor — by Marie Heath, Sumreen Asim, Natalie Milman, & Jessa Henderson (est. 35 min read)
- An A.I. Translation Tool Can Help Save Dying Languages. But at What Cost? — by Madhuri Karak (est. 8 min read)
- Meet Michael Running Wolf, the man using AI to reclaim Native languages — by Nora Mabie (est. 6 min read)
- The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer — By Billy Perrigo (est. 25 min read)
- An Offering — by Lawrie Phipps & Donna Lanclos (est. 3 min read)
- How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy — By Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier (est. 6 min read)
- AI Commons: Filling the governance vacuum related to the use of information commons for AI training — by Alex Tarkowski & Zuzanna Warso (est. 20 min read)
- AI Colonialism — A collection from MIT Technology Review exploring how AI development coincides with exploitation.
- EdTech Audit — A process to evaluate and reflect on the technologies you are using.
- The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI — Proving you're human on a web flooded with generative AI content.
Learning About AI Tools and Their Uses
- Premade course on basic AI literacy — by AI Education Initiative at MIT
- ChatGPT — How It Was Created — by Dr. J Rogel-Salazar for Medium
- How ChatGPT actually works — 6:25 minutes, by AssemblyAI
- How to spot AI-generated text — by Melissa Heikkilä (est. 7 min read)
- 5 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Workflow — by Hillel Fuld (est. 7 min read)
- GPT models explained. Open AI's GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3 — by Priya Shree (est. 15 min read)
- ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove — by Chris Stokel-Walker (est. 6 min read)
- How Machines Learn — Playlist (254 minutes total)
- ChatGPT-4, the Fined Tuned Version of ChatGPT-3, Might Prompt a Major Shift — IBL News (est. 3 min read)
- ChatGPT Can Negotiate Comcast Bills Down For You — by Edward Ongweso Jr (est. 6 min read)
- Facebook Post of Useful Applications of ChatGPT — by Spencer Greenberg (est. 5 min read)