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5 min, Blog Post Hale Durant 5 min, Blog Post Hale Durant

AI and the Humanities with Special Guest Talos, the First AI!

We look at Greek (and other) mythologies to examine what was important to ancient peoples, and while they may have believed many things we know not to be true today, their myths illuminate that they often valued and thought about things that we value and still think about today. This would include, it would seem, the creation of artificial intelligence.

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7 min, Blog Post Hale Durant 7 min, Blog Post Hale Durant

From Descartes to the Center for AI Safety; 375 years of Musings, Warnings, and Arguments Against AI (PART II)

This is Part II in a two part series. In Part I we began with the past year’s warnings from experts in the industry about the future of AI. From there we jumped back to 1637 and examined Rene Descartes’s view on automata, and then progressed through history up to Karel Čapek’s play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” in 1921.

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7 min, Blog Post Hale Durant 7 min, Blog Post Hale Durant

From Descartes to the Center for AI Safety; 375 years of Musings, Warnings, and Arguments Against AI (PART I)

Quite a few AI experts, executives, developers, and others have recently expressed a lot of concerns about the future of AI. So if you have concerns about AI yourself, rest assured you are not alone. Even if we ignore these more recent warnings, you are a lot less alone than you might imagine. Scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, inventors, authors, and plenty of other people have been questioning, warning against, and wondering about the future of artificial intelligence for hundreds of years.

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7 min, Blog Post Hale Durant 7 min, Blog Post Hale Durant

Tales from the Chat Log

Why am I writing about the chat of a webinar? At aiEDU we spend a lot of time working on ways to help educators, whether that’s developing curriculum or other resources for students, or professional development and trainings for educators. One of the best ways to figure out what educators want and need is to listen to them. So we pay close attention to the chats of presentations that we give and attend, and this one struck me as worth sharing.

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5 min, Blog Post Hale Durant 5 min, Blog Post Hale Durant

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

According to folk legend, John Henry was a steel driving man. He drove steel drills into rock with a hammer for blasting railroad tunnels. When his livelihood was threatened by a steam powered drill, John Henry proposed a contest of man versus machine.

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5 min, Blog Post Alex Kotran 5 min, Blog Post Alex Kotran

aiEDU’s Public Comment to the Ohio Department of Education

Last month, The AIEDU was invited to sit on an advisory group that is working on the state of Ohio’s strategy to revise its Computer Science Learning Standards. As part of that workstream, we submitted a public comment articulating our view about why it’s so important to include fundamental AI literacy as part of these revised standards. That full comment, along with the signatories from our network, is below.

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2 min, Blog Post Alex Kotran 2 min, Blog Post Alex Kotran

Survey shows strong, bipartisan support for community-level AI education

Today, Seed AI, a new nonprofit advocating for more artificial intelligence (AI) resources for communities nationwide, released the results of a survey they conducted in partnership with Morning Consult investigating the public’s perceptions of AI. In short, there is broad, bipartisan, pan-generational support for investing in AI education.

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2 min, Blog Post Alex Kotran 2 min, Blog Post Alex Kotran

aiEDU partners with Florida’s Leading Regional Economic Development Organization to prepare students for careers of the future

Building on its commitment to serve the underserved, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council (The Corridor Council) is partnering with The AI Education Project to solidify the fast-growing nonprofit’s presence in Florida and bridge the gap preventing disadvantaged communities from basic access to AI knowledge

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