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A principal welcomes students. Generative AI is coming to schools, leaving administrators and teachers to figure out how to implement the technologies. Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When it comes to developing policies on AI in K‑12, schools are largely on their own

The current landscape of AI use in K-12 schools is highly varied because there’s little specific policy guidance from the state and federal levels.
Artificial intelligence systems can optimize airline routes and reduce contrails. Richard Newstead/Moment via Getty Images

Despite its steep environmental costs, AI might also help save the planet

Artificial intelligence systems have big environmental costs but are also finding ways to save energy and water, cut emissions and make businesses more efficient.
Can you tell these bears apart now? Would you recognize them if you saw them again tomorrow? Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlife

Recent advances in computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence offer an opportunity for facial recognition to apply to bears and other animals.
When a bot brings you the news, who built it and how it presents the information matter. Zentangle/iStock via Getty Images

People are getting their news from AI – and it’s altering their views

Even when information is factually accurate, how it’s presented can introduce subtle biases. As large language models increasingly bring people the news, this bias is a looming problem.
Generative AI looms widely in higher education. Can focusing on social interactions prepare students well for an AI-infused workplace? Fuse via Getty Images

How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI‑augmented age

A writer instructor recognizes the role of AI on campus, while elevating social connection and humanity into the college experience.
Federal legislation introduced in early 2025 proposed allowing AI to prescribe medication. Wladimir Bulgar/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

AI’s errors may be impossible to eliminate – what that means for its use in health care

Many health symptoms can be caused by multiple illnesses – if AI can’t tell the difference between them, it won’t be able to operate accurately without human oversight.
Many of the year’s winners reference the lack of meaning and certainty in our online interactions. Mininyx Doodle/iStock via Getty Images

2025’s words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionment

From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.

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