Two education models are placing opposite bets on the same technology this fall: the University of Chicago is banning AI from its core undergraduate courses, while Alpha School is expanding its AI-driven, largely teacher-free model to roughly 50 campuses nationwide.
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
The useful unit of analysis is the task, not the occupation. Almost no job is fully automatable, and almost every job contains tasks that are.
Most of the harm attributed to biased models is decided upstream: what the system is asked to predict, and what data was available to predict it from.
