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Education

Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds

19 May at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid it

One in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil unrest, according to a survey by King’s College London (KCL).

Students are among the heaviest users of AI, the poll found, with 77% using it at least a few times a month – compared with...

After dinosaurs, it’s spot the dog! But can a child really learn anything in a gallery?

18 May at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Galleries such as National Museum Cardiff pull in children with their play areas and pencils – but stick around and you’ll notice kids critiquing Turner paintings too

Neil Osborne and his three-year-old daughter Daisy are peering at a small, shimmering painting by JMW Turner of foaming waves crashing against a cliff. It’s their second visit to the National Museum Cardiff (NMC). Daisy loves...

Sons of jailed Saudi scholars urge Cambridge to drop plans to train Riyadh staff

17 May at 17:13 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Families of men facing death penalty add to internal opposition to seeking deal with Saudi defence ministry

The families of two scholars facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia have appealed to the University of Cambridge to drop proposals to run staff training courses for Riyadh’s defence ministry.

The Guardian revealed last week that Cambridge’s Judge business school has been...

Good Luck, Grads!

17 May at 13:26 PM, via New York Times

Is the post-college job market as bad as it seems?

My Classmate, ChatGPT

17 May at 07:00 AM, via New York Times

Lessons from the first graduating A.I. class.

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

16 May at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Businesses are advised against paying – but as the Canvas platform hack shows, many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy

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After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates, and school login pages being defaced by hackers, US tech firm Instructure – which operates the...

La Gradiva review – stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension

16 May at 13:25 PM, via The Guardian

Cannes film festival: Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples

Here is cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s beautiful debut film about young love, superbly acted and directed. It is a reminder of how fundamentally dishonest and pseudosophisticated it is to laugh dismissively at the...

What A.I. Kant Do

16 May at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

Could we English majors have a future after all?

Finishing School

16 May at 12:33 PM, via New York Times

It’s graduation season, a time of aspiration and anxiety. Today is about the aspiration — the wisdom to be gleaned from great commencement addresses.

After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’

15 May at 11:30 AM, via The Guardian

After a truck accident left him paralyzed, Jaiden Picot crossed his graduation stage in a robotic exoskeleton

Jaiden Picot, who was paralyzed in 2024 after a truck hit him, never imagined that video of him recently walking across Virginia Union University (VUU)‘s graduation stage in a futuristic robotic suit would go viral.

But since it did, he says he wants the world to know that he intends to...

King’s College and Cranfield hope to be stronger together in surprise merger

15 May at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

News will come as a shock to staff, especially at Cranfield, but the institutions’ bosses say intention is growth

The announcement that King’s College London is to absorb Cranfield University came as a surprise but not a shock to England’s higher education leaders, who have been braced for sudden announcements about job cuts and course closures.

But for staff and students at both institutions...

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