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In a highly globalized, AI-enabled society, there is no longer any doubt that education will continue to evolve. What needs to be determined is whether education will remain a meaning-centered human enterprise, one that is socially responsible for fostering a peaceful, just, and sustainable world. What was proposed in UNESCO's effort to establish a “new social contract for educa...

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“Today’s agents might already be more capable than all three of us here in the room,” says Akshay Kothari, cofounder and chief operating officer of the $11 billion productivity startup Notion. “Taste is something we think is pretty unique to Notion, but you can imagine agents getting pretty good at that too. Eventually, the only thing left for humans is agency.” That idea might ...

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OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, said on Friday that it had reached an agreement with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence technologies for classified systems, just hours after President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using A.I. technology made by rival Anthropic. Under the deal, OpenAI agreed to let the Pentagon use its A.I. systems for any lawful purpose. T...

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“It will completely disrupt every element of humanity more than any other technology or innovation in human history,” FIU trustee Fred Voccola told those in attendance. The founder of two technology firms and the author of a recent book on AI made clear that anyone who does not embrace it will go the way of the dinosaur. “AI allows a human being to become about a hundred to a hu...

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During summer 2025, College Board surveyed more than 3,000 U.S. college faculty. The research finds that faculty sentiment toward AI skews negative, with 45% reporting an overall negative view of AI use in higher education and 34% reporting a positive view. Despite their concerns, most faculty are experimenting with AI themselves, with 77% saying they have used AI in their profe...

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