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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Jan 11

An exciting end to the first week in 2025 w/ a TV appearance ✨🤩
Was invited to the NTDCapitolReport Fri evening to discuss K12 #AIinEducation MediaLiteracy SocialMedia & TeenMentalHealth. These are all weighty/topical issues that could've each taken up the whole time! www.ntd.com/experts-deba...

Experts Debate Risks and Benefits of AI Integration in Education

In this segment of Civil Discourse, we delve into the risks of integrating AI into education. Joining the discussion is Shuchi Grover, a learning scientist and researcher specializing in computer scie...

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 24d

A sober takedown of Mr. "I consult taxi drivers for foreign policy takes".

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 24d

I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Sep 8

Same (re Whatsapp) :-(

Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Sep 8

I quit using fb the day the Cambridge Analytica story broke in Mar 2018. The post on that story is my last and last engagement on my account. [I have kept my account alive as I co-manage my father's remembrance page with my siblings after his passing- may have to sadly revisit that decision].

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is big news. www.ft.com/content/96b5...

AI start-up Anthropic settles landmark copyright suit for $1.5bn

Case will compensate authors but could raise costs of training large language models

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Sep 5

A beautiful piece of writing. About humanity, pain, loss of parents and loved ones, poetic experiences.. everything that AI is not. And about impressionable minds caught in a death spiral engendered/egged on by insidious "sociotechnical" systems. Thank you for sharing, @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · Sep 5

"AI is not capable of artificial imagination. AI will forever be devoid of self-creation and self-extension so long as it lacks the capacity to imagine a world different from that which we’ve codified and fed to it. I do not lose sleep worried that this artificial capacity is imminent."

We are the song death takes it own time singing

I am not an eloquent writer.

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ty for sharing. Contrary to your admission, this was an eloquent piece of writing. The framing of the story resonated deeply (I'm now in a world w/o either parent. That final & irreparable unmooring from our human creators is an indescribably hard thing). I too have thought so often of Adam Raine.

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Jul 6

I live in Texas and have never received a Blue Alert. I do get weather alerts for severe weather warnings and amber alerts (pretty frequently).

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Evil MoPac @evilmopacatx.bsky.social · Jul 5

HEB: The true leaders of Texas

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Matthias Hauswirth @hauswirth.bsky.social · Jun 19

Empfehlung von Nobelpreisträger Hinton: Politiker sollen dringend starke AI Regulierung einführen und Junge sollen Sanitärinstallateur lernen youtu.be/giT0ytynSqg?...

Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton

YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · Jun 12

Polygonic breathing 😊

Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Shoulders down.

Unclench your jaw.

Soften your brow.

And just take a moment breathe.

You only need to get through this one day, one hour, one minute, one breath at a time.

Keep going.

a drawing of a circle with the words breathe out below it

Alt: a drawing of a slowly expanding and contracting geometric shape with the words breathe out below it

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · Jun 8

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
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How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 29

I had the pleasure of serving on the OECD 2021 PISA Math Framework Expert group in 2018 that was co-led by Bill Schmidt and Joan Ferrini-Mundy. Such an accomplished academic, and a powerhouse in educational assessment.

AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · May 28

We saddened by the passing of esteemed education scholar William Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt was an AERA Fellow, recipient of the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, and served as chair of the governing board of the AERA-NSF Grants Program.

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · May 21

Wrote about my problems with that World Bank "ai tutoring" study. pershmail.substack.com/p/ai-is-mayb...

AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing

Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · May 27

In a few months, this World Bank study of "AI tutoring" will have dozens of citations and still be circulating as authoritative "policy relevant" evidence that AI improves learning.

Here's a very useful assessment of why it should not be interpreted, cited, or used like that.

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · May 21

Wrote about my problems with that World Bank "ai tutoring" study. pershmail.substack.com/p/ai-is-mayb...

AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing

Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · May 17

"AI is not the lifeline our education system needs. Certainly not right now. What we need—what we’ve needed for decades—is serious investment in teachers, classrooms, infrastructure and support services. And we’re getting the opposite." This is on *Crunchbase*! news.crunchbase.com/edtech/k12-a...

AI Isn’t the Answer To Our Education Crisis — It’s a Distraction

While AI has a role to play in education, it is not the lifeline the American education system needs, argues Aron Solomon of Amplify. What does it need? Support, stability and a system that sees both ...

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 16

Congrats! 🥳

Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 16

It’s “a thing” in most of the far east. I visited several temples in HongKong recently and saw multi-armed goddesses.

Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 16

All set for my upcoming travel! Looking forward to
@emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social’s takedown of #AI #hype.
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
#TheAICon #AICon

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 16

Despite the hype, nothing about #AI is inevitable. Humans are making decisions about its use everyday, & we need to convince the ones in charge of our #K12 schools—esp our elementary schools—that the zealous embrace of the latest tech is not the way forward. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

Opinion | A.I. Will Destroy Critical Thinking in K-12

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Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 16

*YOUR

Dr. Shuchi Grover @shuchig.bsky.social · May 16

YEs. And not just how its going to make all your problems go away, but how YOU STUDENTS WILL BE LEFT BEHIND if you don't embrace this technology.
Such pressure has been exerted at various summits & fora at various industry sectors (incl social service orgs) since 2023, mostly by tech peeps.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · May 15

"Thousands of pages of documents show school districts around the country did not understand how much ChatGPT would change their classrooms, and pro-AI consultants filled in some of the gaps."

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Dan Astroid @danocloid.bsky.social · May 15

#sharegoodnewstoo

WIRED @wired.com · May 15

Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies. www.wired.com/story/a-baby...

A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time

Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · May 13

There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move.

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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · May 13

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

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