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A U.S. nonprofit on learning and work, whose Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work runs research and pilots to help practitioners and institutions use AI.
Stanford's annual report on AI, covering benchmarks, investment, education, policy, and workforce impact.
Anthropic's research on how people use Claude at work, broken down by task and occupation.
The IMF's research on how AI affects jobs, growth, and policy around the world.
McKinsey's research on how organizations adopt AI, including its annual State of AI survey, with great data visualization.
The Department of Labor's framework for AI literacy training, with five content areas and seven principles for designing programs.
EducationShowHide
A free guide from Elon University on ten human capabilities to build alongside AI, with a self-assessment and a teacher's guide.
Harvard metaLAB's curated assignments and AI guide for educators, especially in humanities and non-technical fields.
Teaching cases, activities, and policy templates for integrating AI into higher ed.
200+ college syllabus policies for generative AI use, collected in a Google Sheet.
UNESCO's global guidance on generative AI in education, covering ethics, policy, data privacy, age limits, and classroom use.
Staying InformedShowHide
Ethan Mollick's newsletter on AI in work and education, from the author of Co-Intelligence.
Nathaniel Whittemore's daily podcast and newsletter on AI news, covering models, policy, workforce impact, and industry trends.
Stefan Bauschard's newsletter on AI and education, covering instructional redesign, workforce readiness, and what schools need to change.
Weekly newsletter from the World Economic Forum with three curated stories on jobs, skills, AI, and education.
ToolsShowHide
Google's AI research tool (formerly NotebookLM) that answers from the documents you upload, with citations, and turns them into audio overviews, mind maps, and flashcards.
Anthropic's PDF on six practical prompting techniques that work across chatbots, or try Prompt Cowboy, which turns rough ideas into structured prompts.
AI tools for educators, including lesson planners, rubric generators, and assessment builders.
A page for parents is coming soon. In the meantime, see Common Sense Media's guide to AI companions and AI risk ratings, and my page Durable Skills.
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The knowledge canyon
Too much sci-fi has us stuck speaking in the wrong verb tense. The old digital divide was about access. This one is harder to see.
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No pain no brain
The risk of AI eroding our knowledge and skills is getting more attention lately. When we delegate too often, we atrophy.
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Your feed needs a chief of staff
Agentic AI offers a chance to move from TikTok-passive, where algorithms dictate our attention, to more of a chief-of-staff relationship.
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