A student submits a brilliant paper. But it’s too well-written, too structured, too “perfect.” The suspicion immediately arises: perhaps it was done by artificial intelligence. The first impulse is to use an AI-generated text detector. We apply it to the paper, and the tool tells us that there’s an 87% probability it was generated by […] … learn more→

I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated question: What is writing? And can artificial intelligence really do it? Many people think of “writing” as putting words on a page. However, even from very early on, writers have seen their craft as something more. From Enheduanna, the first named […] … learn more→

From live speech translation in video calls to auto-dubbing on TikTok, the technology to dissolve language barriers has arrived. Real-time translation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is now embedded in everyday life. Tools from OpenAI, Meta, Google and many others now offer near-instant translation across dozens of languages, and they keep improving. All this raises a vital question. If […] … learn more→

Scientific discoveries rarely happen alone. Modern research often involves teams spanning institutions and even countries. Yet when research is published in academic journals, credit is reduced to a list of names – a list that can shape careers. Authorship is a key signal of expertise. It influences hiring, promotion, and funding decisions. Despite this importance, the […] … learn more→

Do you know what the Apple logo looks like? Chances are, you think you do. It’s ubiquitous and iconic. How could you not know it? But when tested, it turns out very few people can remember all the features of the logo. One study of 85 people found that only about half could pick the correct logo […] … learn more→

Much has been said about Mythos (Anthropic’s LLM, a large language model focused on reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity) and Anthropic’s cult of secrecy. However, the company has published a technical report on Mythos’s capabilities, the analysis of which puts some of the apocalyptic pronouncements circulating online into perspective . The researchers describe the breakthroughs that Mythos makes possible: detecting zero-day vulnerabilities in […] … learn more→

The nonprofit ARC Prize Foundation on May 1, 2026, released the results of a new benchmark: a test of an AI system’s ability to solve a game. The results were striking – humans scored 100%, while the most advanced AI systems scored under 1%. At first glance, this may be surprising to users of AI who are impressed […] … learn more→

People often imagine life-changing career decisions as a single dramatic moment: a sudden epiphany, a bold declaration, a clean break. My decision to quit my academic job and step away from my work in artificial intelligence (AI) training was nothing like that. The truth is that the moment had been building for years. It started […] … learn more→

For nearly 1,500 years, science, with a few notable exceptions, assumed that the universe was organized around the planet Earth. The reason, beyond dogma, was that the geocentric model worked to explain natural phenomena such as eclipses and the seasons. Later discoveries demonstrated the falsity of this model and the need to propose another. This […] … learn more→

Writing the dreaded English essay spikes anxiety for thousands of students, but is there a way for writing to boost students’ well-being instead? I wanted to know if a new approach to teaching literary studies could tap into the feel-good side of writing and make essays a path to wellness, so I designed an English course […] … learn more→