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