Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that ...

Artificial Intelligence California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot. It can’t answer one crucial question The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on ...

Director of Special ProjectsRamsey Isler is director of special projects at CalMatters and The Markup. He focuses on strategy and tactics for optimizing the delivery of the newsroom’s work, including ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

For many students, that’s not a problem. They generally trust their institutions and see the online elements of higher education as convenient. Putting up with data collection seems like a necessary ...

Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing the web. Users type a URL into Blacklight, and it visits the requested website, ...

Before February 2020, physical proximity was one of the most important factors in determining who got a new liver. The previous system divided the country into dozens of “donation service areas,” each ...

Artificial Intelligence Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites ...

News With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up? States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and ...

In October 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that an AI-powered chatbot would help New York business owners navigate the government. Months later, that chatbot is telling businesses to ...