The story of AI in higher education is unfolding fast, and the AI Hub is here to cover it. This page tracks breaking developments, spotlights experiments from classrooms and labs, and offers analysis on how emerging tools are reshaping learning.
US Judge Approves a $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement with Anthropic
A U.S. federal judge gave preliminary approval on Sept. 25 to a landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement between the AI firm Anthropic and a group of authors who sued them. The…
AI’s Power Surge: Report Finds Data Centers Could Double Global Electricity Demand
A report from the International Energy Agency warns that the same technology driving innovation in fields from medicine to climate modeling could more than double global electricity demand from data centers…
Companies Update Numbers on AI’s Environmental Impact
Companies Update Numbers on AI’s Environmental Impact Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at The Wharton School and author of Co-Intelligence, Living and Working with AI [Portfolio | April 2024], rounded up some…
Educators Compare AI to Plastics
AI and education researchers Jasper Roe, Leon Furze, and Mike Perkins published a paper that urges educators to use carefully crafted metaphors to sharpen AI literacy. Furze proposed one metaphor that…
Researchers Uncover Reasons for Hallucinations from Generative AI
In mid-September, researcher Leon Chlon and his colleagues, Ahmed Karim and Maggie Chlon, published a paper arguing that large language models (LLMs) sometimes invent facts because of flaws in the way…