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Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English

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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...
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His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?

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How a Group of Health Executives Transformed the Liver Transplant System

Marilyn Walto’s family didn’t expect her to make it through the year. A chronic disease was attacking her bile ducts and destroying her liver. Without a transplant, she would die. In an administrative ...
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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook

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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

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AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating

Taylor Hahn, who teaches at Johns Hopkins University, got an alert while grading a student paper this past spring for a communications course. He had uploaded the assignment to Turnitin, software used ...
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The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching

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Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos

Second in a two-part series (read part one). Last June, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a big promise to help Black YouTubers. “We’re committed to doing better as a platform to center and amplify ...
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A Death Sentence: Native Americans Shut Out of the Nation’s Liver Transplant System

Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an ...
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What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South

This story was published in partnership with Capital B, a local-national nonprofit news organization that centers Black voices, audience needs and experiences, and partners with the communities it ...
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How We Built a Real-time Privacy Inspector

Read about our latest updates to Blacklight. 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 ...