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Earlier studies disagreed about whether people trust algorithms or avoid them; this paper says both are true, and the choice depends on the situation. People lean on algorithms for clear-cut tasks and push back on them …
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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Asked the public how they feel about AI making decisions in different fields (medical, legal, news). Trust depends on the field and on whet…
Research · Human Capacity
Argues that AI does not just expand what people can do, it also narrows it, in three quiet ways: AI takes over choices and skills, it flatt…
Editorial · Learning
UC Berkeley computer science courses had elevated failure rates in spring 2026, with CS 10 at 35.3 percent F grades and CS 61A at 10.6 perc…
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Tested AI models on standardized medical questions and found they matched or beat human doctors on the test. Whether this carries over to r…
Editorial · Learning
Princeton's faculty voted to require proctoring for all in-person examinations beginning July 1, 2026, reversing a 133-year-old honor syste…
Research · Learning
When students used AI to solve problems they did worse overall, even though they felt good about the work. The gap was sharpest by mindset:…
AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Oren Etzioni
AI researcher; founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2); professor emeritus at the University of Washington
The most important thing to realize about living in the 21st century, as against the Middle Ages or the Stone Age, is that we are now hackable animals.
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, Nexus
Because of AI and the frictionless relationships people are engaging in online, a lot of young people are losing the ability to endure rejection.
Scott Galloway
Professor of marketing, NYU Stern; host of Prof G and Pivot podcasts; author of The Algebra of Wealth (2024)
We are building technology to replace humans and automate people away. That is not the enterprise of technology. Its purpose throughout history has been to improve human flourishing.
Karen Hao
Journalist; author of Empire of AI (2025); formerly MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, WSJ