AI & Society

TL;DR A coding agent should enter a CI/CD pipeline as an untrusted change producer, not as a privileged developer account. Give it an ephemeral sandbox, read-only repository access, a writable workspace, tightly controlled network egress, no deployment credentials, and no direct path to a protected branch. The agent should produce a patch and evidence bundle. […]

Educators and students find themselves on the front line as AI labs begin to muscle in, fears about cognitive atrophy surface, and AI cheating detection tools are revealed to be faulty. It is time to arm students with ‘eval’ powers, a professor argues

Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students

Academic research on the phenomenon suggests AI could be behind both trends

Long-term effects of incorporating the technology into learning are still unknown, but inequalities are emerging

Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance

Strategies vary and costs as well as other concerns are beginning to determine policies

Building effective frameworks could help promote ‘deep thinking’ rather than ‘cognitive atrophy’

Organisations will need people with the skills to test models constantly against what they actually need

When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution