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An Academic and a VC Walk into an AI Salon ...
The unexpected collaboration that became "AI and the Art of Being Human"
 • Andrew Maynard
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A Kindergartener's Guide to AI, Qualia, Affordances, and Embodied Intelligence
Forget bats and black-and-white rooms, one of the best guides to the esoteric world of AI and experiential intelligence is a 2013 book written for…
 • Andrew Maynard
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Heads-up on new AI book
Mark your calendar: AI and the Art of Being Human launching Oct 14
 • Andrew Maynard
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The hidden risks of using AI to write emails
When is it OK to use AI to craft emails, and when do you risk stepping into a whole lot of unexpected hurt? Intrigued by the question, I brushed off my…
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Holding on to our humanity in an age of AI
AIs are becoming startlingly good at emulating what we do. But what happens when they start to influence who we are and how we behave?
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Unpacking Agentic AI in Education
A quick plug for this week's episode of Modem Futura with Punya Mishra, which dives into what agentic AI does and doesn't mean in education, and why…
 • Andrew Maynard
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Using AI to Assess Student-AI Conversations
Can ChatGPT be used to extract useful learning insights from long and meandering conversations between learners and AI?
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Stop asking students "Show Me Your Prompt!"
As educators continue to grapple with students using AI for assignments, we need to move beyond the idea that showing the original prompt is useful
 • Andrew Maynard
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The Scared Witless Educator's Guide to Surviving ChatGPT GPT-5
If you're panicking over how to survive in world where every student has access to one of the most powerful AI's ever made, I have a plan ...
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CodeSignal turned my book into an AI-assisted professional development course
As universities and companies scramble to bring agentic AI to learning, I was intrigued by CodeSignal's approach to using AI in a new course inspired by…
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Spiky surfaces and jagged edges: Moving beyond what's known in an Age of AI
Do we need to move beyond simple models of knowledge creation and discovery as AI becomes increasingly capable?
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America's AI Action Plan: "Build, Baby, Build"
The White House's just-released AI Action Plan prioritizes speed, power, and US AI supremacy, over pretty much everything else. This will likely be good…
 • Andrew Maynard
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Still Human: 61 Inspiring paintings from an upcoming generation
Amidst today's flood of AI-generated art, these paintings by Chinese children speak with a rare clarity about empathy, creativity, and the soul of what…
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What's Grok 4's "Moral Character"?
With the launch of xAI's Grok 4 – heralded by Elon Musk as "the world's smartest AI" – I was interested to see how it's "moral character" stacked up…
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