The machine was never the threat. Handing it the thinking is. Aim it at what students care about, and they can make what we ...

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

Compare the 10 best AI writing tools in 2026 after testing leading platforms for SEO, content creation, copywriting, and ...

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

The principal difficulty lies, and the greatest care should be employed in constituting this representative assembly,” John Adams wrote in his 1776 Thoughts on Government ess ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that looks impressively official. Then you ask one to multiply two awkward ...

On a Sunday morning, Princeton senior David Frankel arrived in the lab just after breakfast, set up a row of six mini chemical reactors and carefully distributed two grams of one of the world’s most ...

I hate the phrase “common sense”. There, I said it. This is phrase that pisses me off even more, if possible, than “think of the children”. When someone invokes the phrase “common sense” they are ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Zak Zethner, an accessory dwelling unit policy analyst at Housing Help Inc., and Pilar Moya-Mancera, the not-for-profit organization's executive director.

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...