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Flowers are placed in a barricade pylon on a road leading to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where a mass shooting took place on Feb. 10. The shooter’s ChatGPT account was flagged by an automated program months earlier for interactions involving scenarios of gun violence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi 

Danger was flagged, but not reported: What the Tumbler Ridge tragedy reveals about Canada’s AI governance vacuum

In cases like the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s flagged ChatGPT account, Canada lacks a legal framework for assigning responsibility when an AI company possesses information that could prevent violence.
Research on attachment, emotion regulation and online discourse helps explain why turning to artificial intelligence for relationship help is becoming increasingly popular. (Unsplash)

Why people are turning to AI first for relationship advice — and why they shouldn’t

The speed and structure of AI relationship advice often consolidates one narrative and trains us for unrealistic expectations, shaping how we interpret conflict and intimacy.
While many colleges have guidance on how students should use AI, specific policies tend to vary across professors and fields of study. Jutharat Pinpan/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it

Colleges and universities are taking on different approaches to how their students are using AI – but with a shared recognition that they cannot prevent it altogether.
People seem to intuitively understand something meaningful should require doing more than pushing a button or writing a prompt. design master/iStock via Getty Images

Whether it’s Valentine’s Day notes or emails to loved ones, using AI to write leaves people feeling crummy about themselves

When you outsource romance, there’s a hidden emotional cost.
For a small but significant group — people with psychotic disorders or those at high risk — interacting with genAI may be complicated and dangerous, which raises urgent questions for clinicians. (Unsplash)

Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging — here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to say

Although artificial intelligence does not cause psychosis, the conversational, responsive and seemingly empathic design of chatbots can intensify psychotic symptoms in vulnerable people.
Police officers smile after finding a toddler who had been reported missing for four days. An AI tool reporting on the mother’s child abandonment court appearance in September erroneously claimed she had abandoned her child “to go on vacation.” Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette

I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous

When we ask for news, we should expect generative AI tools to stick to the facts. But new research shows they don’t.
A teacher reviews the results of a writing assignment, ‘Find the Bot,’ during a class in Lexington, Ky., in February 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Rate my AI teacher? Students’ perceptions of chatbots will influence how they learn with AI

What people think of their teachers is tremendously important for learning, and should inform how we analyze the potential use of AI chatbots in education.

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