EdTechSR Ep 337 Teaching and Parenting in the AI Era

Check out our Episode 337 from October 16, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. Student was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and administrators (ArsTechnica, 16 Oct 2024)

2. People are using AI bots to create nude images of almost anyone online (BGR, 16 Oct 2024)

3. The Vision Pro is being used to assist surgeons during live procedures (9to5Mac, 16 Oct 2024)

4. The Antitrust Revolution: Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech (Harpers Magazine, (Oct 2024) – Wes’ Mastodon thread

5. WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly (The Register, 14 Oct 2024)

6. SpaceX Calls New Starship Test a Success, Captures Rocket at Landing (Voice of America, 13 Oct 2024)

7. Jason’s Geeks of the Week: OpenMCQ from MTDA – Fotorama from AppNation – Stupid AI Tricks

   • “From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself”

   • “Roast me like one of your French girls”

8. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Webinar on Google’s NotebookLM (archived) – Radio for preparedness: What lessons can we learn from Hurricane Helene? (47 min) – Wes’ Communitarian Prepper

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. AI Sexbots Are on the Rise. Should We Regulate Them? (The Intelligence Debrief, 16 Oct 2024)

2. AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient (AP 2 September 2024)

3. Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (Ruters; 30 August 2024)

4. Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI (NBC News; 30 August 2024)

5. Anthropic flags AI's potential to 'automate sophisticated destructive cyber attacks (ZDnet, 16 Oct 2024)

6. Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people (NPR, 13 October 2024)

7. The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts (Verge, 9 Oct 2024)

8. There’s Never Been a Better Time to Delete Your 23andMe Data. Here’s How to Do It (Gizmodo, 16 Oct 2024)

9. South Texans are going after SpaceX after the company avoided launch delays (Houston Chronicle, 15 Oct 2024)

10. Amazon finally has a color Kindle, and it looks pretty good (The Verge, 16 Oct 2024)

11. Unknown drones breach US military bases, baffle defense officials (DroneDJ, 14 Oct 2024)

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