
The episode discusses the implications of AI tools and security issues in education, highlighting various studies and proposals related to AI's impact on learning.
In this episode of ChatEDU, Prompt No More: What Claude Plug-ins Signal for AI in Education, Matt and Liz open with a major Meta security flaw: hackers simply asked Meta AI to grant access to high-profile Instagram accounts, including Barack Obama's. With support entirely AI-run, affected users couldn't reach a human. The Rundown ChatGPT's new memory system uses "dreaming" to auto-curate user preferences over years. Google's new AI feature for Enterprise and Education plans finds scattered files and suggests folders for them. In a Stanford blind study, law professors preferred AI answers to student legal questions over peer-written ones 75% of the time. In a poll of 545 K-12 educators, most said AI will outweigh the internet's educational impact; about half report no district guidance. A new six-item tool in the ECNU Review of Education measures how much students outsource thinking to generative AI. Bernie Sanders proposed a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI companies to fund dividends for Americans. Jack Clark and The Anthropic Institute warned frontier models are nearing recursive self-improvement, urging international verification. Penn GSE launched a course on how…
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