This Week in The Preamble: Why the future of AI depends on what we keep human

When Adam Raine started to struggle during his sophomore year, his family did everything they could to help him. Adam was having a flare-up of a long-time health issue that caused him to miss class so much that his family decided he should enroll in an online program so he could finish the year at home. Being able to set his own schedule seemed to be a …

At 25, David Fajgenbaum was dying—and no one knew how to save him. A rare disease was shutting down his organs, and every treatment had failed. So the young medical student did something extraordinary: he turned his research skills on himself, uncovering a life-saving therapy hidden in plain sight—an existing drug no one had thought to use for his condi…

AI is a quick learner, even when it comes to bigotry.

ChatGPT has become a trusted presence in daily life — a digital assistant answering homework questions, drafting emails, and writing code for millions of users each day.

Only three years after the public release of ChatGPT, generative AI — which includes any AI that creates original content — has become the most disruptive technology in the history of K-12 education. Students are using AI to write essays and avoiding detection by running those essays through “humanizers.” When kids do write on their own, much of their r…

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