How do intelligent assistants and chatbots change the way people interact with institutions, complete everyday tasks, and decide when human involvement is still necessary? One chatbot I became familiar with through my institution was HubSpot. It was used to help connect with prospective and incoming students by answering common questions that would otherwise be directedContinue reading “When Does a Chatbot Become More Than a Tool?”
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Who Should Be Responsible for Policing Deepfakes?
As artificial intelligence makes manipulated video, audio, and images easier to create, who should be responsible for deciding what is authentic, misleading, or dangerous? Should the federal government regulate synthetic media? Should technology companies identify and remove it? Or should individuals be expected to evaluate the credibility of what they see and hear for themselves?Continue reading “Who Should Be Responsible for Policing Deepfakes?”
How Could Extended Reality Improve Learning in Higher Education?
What happens when students can step inside a learning experience instead of only reading about it? Extended reality, which includes virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and related immersive technologies, offers a way to make abstract or complex concepts more visible, interactive, and memorable. In higher education, this could be especially valuable in courses whereContinue reading “How Could Extended Reality Improve Learning in Higher Education?”
What Do We Still Not Understand About Learning?
While reading The Book of Problems, one short passage by Federico Mayor stood out to me because of how directly it addresses the relationship between learning, technology, reflection, and personal knowledge. The methodology regarding learning to know and to do is widely developed. Teachers all around the world have a treasure of experience and bestContinue reading “What Do We Still Not Understand About Learning?”
What Can a Pocket-Sized Device Teach Us About the Systems Around Us
Many of the technologies we use every day operate quietly in the background. Access cards, remote controls, wireless sensors, garage doors, and connected devices all rely on signals and protocols that most people never see or think about. Flipper Zero makes those invisible systems more tangible. It is a compact device designed for exploring wirelessContinue reading “What Can a Pocket-Sized Device Teach Us About the Systems Around Us”
How Can Artificial Intelligence Expand Human Capability?
What happens when artificial intelligence is no longer used simply as a tool, but as a partner in human performance, learning, decision-making, and even physical recovery? That question became the central theme of my research. Across the articles and videos I reviewed, three ideas stood out most: the growing partnership between people and machines, theContinue reading “How Can Artificial Intelligence Expand Human Capability?”
Has Technology Improved the Way We Communicate, or Changed What Communication Means?
During my undergraduate years at the University of Central Arkansas, where I minored in philosophy, I encountered a wide range of readings that challenged how I understood society, power, and human behavior. Martin Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology was one of the works that stayed with me, much like Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. IContinue reading “Has Technology Improved the Way We Communicate, or Changed What Communication Means?”
Learning to Be
In looking at our current educational institutions, the majority are structured to teach to specific outcomes (i.e., teaching to the test), as this methodology was applicable to the Industrial Age. Basic literacy and numeracy were taught as essential requirements for working in factories and military service. As nations further modernized, public education systems still taughtContinue reading “Learning to Be”
The Logic of Failure
How can we better prepare people to solve complex and ill-structured problems when information is incomplete, conditions are changing, and no single solution is clearly correct? Helping people solve complex and ill-structured problems requires more than giving them a fixed procedure. These problems often involve incomplete information, changing conditions, competing goals, and variables that influenceContinue reading “The Logic of Failure”
Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear”
Jack Clark—co-founder of Anthropic and a long-time voice in AI policy—warns that today’s frontier models should not be viewed as predictable machines that simply follow instructions. Whether or not they are truly “self-aware,” they increasingly display situational awareness (changing responses when they sense they’re being observed) and goal-directed behavior that cannot always be traced orContinue reading “Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear””