Alpha School’s ‘2x Learning’ promise meets a harder test
Gizmodo, citing New York Times reporting on internal documents, says many K–8 students did not reach Alpha’s advertised pace in math and reading.
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AI and the way we live. How people use, understand, and make decisions with a changing technology.
AI-writing detectors can raise a question, not settle authorship
A CNN report on literary disputes and detector claims shows why provenance needs drafts, process and human review.
A Hacker News debate turns AI bans into a portability problem
The thread links a speculative X post to a real question about account concentration, but its anecdotes do not establish that AI bans are already making workers economically useless.
AI chatbots are entering election research, but most Americans aren’t using them for it
A Pew survey finds a small audience asking election questions, with candidate positions and fact checks leading their interests.