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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how AI will affect classroom learning. The answer isn’t obvious, because it depends on how it’s used. Technology has been in the classroom for a long time (remember one laptop per child?).
But unlike s...
Hi everyone! Welcome to part two of the discussion of my new paper “How People Use ChatGPT”, written with an all-star team of OpenAI researchers. Here is part one, where I talk about the growth of ChatGPT and the privacy implications of our...
This morning a team of OpenAI researchers and I released a new paper called “How People Use ChatGPT”.1 We document the growth of ChatGPT from its release in November 2022 through July 2025, at which point it had been used at least weekly by...
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Thanks for sticking with Forked Lightning! I’ve been quiet for a little while, mostly because I took a new job as Dean of Harvard College. This leaves me with less time for research and writing than I’d like. Still, I’ve been...
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It’s been a minute. Today I want to talk about some exciting new research on AI and teamwork – some by me, and some by an all-star Cybernetic team of coauthors.
Some people think that the AGI apocalypse is coming for office jobs...
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Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, an economist who studies education, skill development, and economic inequality.
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