Book Club Podcast?

Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading:

Dan's reading:

Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson (TED Talk)
Why Data Science Projects Fail, by Douglas Gray and Evan Shellshear (An interview with Evan)

Ray's reading

The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, by Kate Crawford (Wikipedia page)

News Links

Links to the reports and news we discuss in the episode:

OpenAI's new Education newsletter https://openaiforeducation.substack.com/

Ethan Mollick's new "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" course on Coursera https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-ai-in-education-leveraging-chatgpt-for-teaching

World Economic Forum "Future of Jobs report" https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/infographics-94b6214b36/

Student expelled and deported because they were accused of using ChatGPT by their professor. So they're suing their professor https://www.fox9.com/video/1574324

Digital Education Council Global AI Faculty Survey 2025 https://www.digitaleducationcouncil.com/post/digital-education-council-global-ai-faculty-survey We'll discuss this report with one of the authors in next week's episode

UK government policy paper on "Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education" https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/generative-artificial-intelligence-in-education/generative-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-education

Year13 Case Study on AI use https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/2024/12/13/guiding-school-leavers-with-ai-support-year13s-mission-to-democratise-opportunities-for-young-people/

AI Use by industry employees - US, 2024 https://www.nber.org/papers/w32966

In the discussion of energy use by AI, Ray mentioned some stats from this research report: "The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans" https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.06219.pdf

Research Papers

And finally, links to the research papers we discussed this week

ChatGPT and Its Educational Impact: Insights from a Software Development Competition https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03779

How to Align Large Language Models for Teaching English? Designing and Developing LLM based-Chatbot for Teaching English Conversation in EFL, Findings and Limitations https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04987

AI Meets the Classroom: When Does ChatGPT Harm Learning? https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09047

Are Large Language Models Good Essay Graders? https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13120

An Education Researcher's Guide to ChatGPT https://osf.io/spbz3

A Step Towards Adaptive Online Learning: Exploring the Role of GPT as Virtual Teaching Assistants in Online Education https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/rw45b

The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in action: A pilot implementation of GenAI-supported assessment https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/9434

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