AI Updates 20260906

After a period of exploration that peaked while I was vacation with a lot of time on my hands, my usage of AI has more or less fallen back to where it was before my blitz of AI posts a couple weeks ago. This post is a summary of some interesting AI-related topics since my last post. AI And Learning In my 23 Aug post about Positive AI usage I mused on some ways that students might be able to use AI in a positive way instead of just having it be a complete negative. Since then I heard a Fresh Air episode about how tech giants influence American schools that mentioned Estonia making a deal with one of the AI companies to make it only answer socratically if a student was using it. Combining that with what I wrote in my blog post it was interesting to get this email from ChatGPT:Full post