A very informative session which has made me consider how we teach eSafety to our students and how we discuss their online presence with them. Thanks @simfin
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.
The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool offering “hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year” for access to your audio conversations.
Common Sense Media and Day of AI have teamed up to launch a free toolkit, featuring a video and interactive activities to help families and educators explore AI together.
In 2023/24, Department for Education data shows a record 11,614 suspensions were handed to pupils using apps like Instagram, TikTok and Twitter to bully their peers or share inappropriate content.
This marks an increase of over 75% since 2021.
The Alan Turing Institute's Children and AI and AI for Public Services teams explored the perspectives of children, parents, carers and teachers on generative AI technologies.
"There's zero evidence of AI consciousness today. But if people just perceive it as conscious, they will believe that perception as reality,"
Related to this is the rise of a new condition called "AI psychosis": a non-clinical term describing incidents where people increasingly rely on AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok and then become convinced that something imaginary has become real.
Corporate executives, government employees, and professionals are confessing to crimes, exposing trade secrets, and documenting career-ending admissions in ChatGPT conversations visible to anyone on the internet.
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