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futurism.com > future-society > ai-cheating-students-absurd-lengths-avoid-detection

College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (473+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 11:02 AM EDT You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > ai-alpha-school-education-heart-monitor

AI School Hooking Children Up to Heart Monitor in Front of Class While Playing Critiques of Their Work

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (714+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 6:54 PM EDT Schools across the world are experimenting with AI tools, usually to the dismay of unsuspecting parents. But one privately-run school is explicitly embracing AI as part of its sales pitch, and the in-class experience sounds more…...

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futurism.com > future-society > llms-acting-as-cognitive-virus-among-humans

Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (310+ words) Published Sep 8, 2026 3:02 PM EDT Generative AI has infiltrated almost every aspect of our daily lives, whether we like it or not. It’s nearly impossible to avoid on social media, and it’s even showing up on dinner menus at the local…...

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futurism.com > future-society > zohran-mamdani-bans-ai-for-nyc-public-school-students

Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (392+ words) Published Sep 3, 2026 12:50 PM EDT New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start of high school, along with other restrictions on the technology. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the one-year moratorium on…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > alarming-ai-humans-more-robotic

Alarming Study Suggests That Using AI Is Turning Humans More Robotic

2+ week, 11+ min ago   (368+ words) Published Aug 31, 2026 10:40 AM EDT But the more we use AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, those tables are starting to turn: chatbots appear to be influencing human behavior making us behave more like them — a terrifying thought as…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > mit-warns-ai-undergrad-assignments

MIT Warns That AI Can Now Credibly Complete Pretty Much Any Undergrad Assignment, Considers Overhaul of Entire Educational Model

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (350+ words) Published Aug 30, 2026 2:01 PM EDT MIT is mulling an overhaul of its entire educational system in response to the threat posed by powerful AI models — a striking response to the tech from one of the planet’s most visible and influential research…...

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futurism.com > future-society > 12-year-olds-access-ai-tutor-ignored

Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (495+ words) Published Aug 29, 2026 9:02 AM EDT Advocates for the use of AI in the classroom have long argued that the tech could supercharge learning, giving the current generation of students a major leg up as they get ready to enter a nearly…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > mom-travels-ai-clone-for-son

Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (362+ words) Published Aug 29, 2026 6:01 AM EDT AI-obsessed moms and dads are using the tech for parenting in bizarre and downright dystopian ways that’ll bring out your inner luddite. In a new Business Insider piece, a cognitive neuroscientist named Sarah Baldeo described how…...

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futurism.com > artificial-intelligence > babies-way-better-learning-ai-llm-models-language

Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (357+ words) Published Aug 25, 2026 9:50 AM EDT Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in measures…...

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futurism.com > future-society > employers-hiring-recent-grads-never-mind

Employers Are Hiring Recent Grads and Then Saying "Oops, Never Mind"

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (327+ words) Published Aug 23, 2026 11:06 AM EDT Inundated with AI-generated resumes, ruthless employers are ghosting applicants and even rescinding job offers after they’ve been accepted, SFGate reports, deepening the nightmare that recent grads experience when entering the job market. In a June 2026 report,…...