OPINION Ai governance I Believe Altman and Amodei. That's Why I'm Worried. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council that AI is a global security issue. I believe them, and I think the harder, unfunded work lies in classrooms, not …
PERSPECTIVES Ai in education Japan's AI Education Guidelines Skip the Question That Matters Most Japan's 2026 AI-in-education guidelines tell teachers how to use AI but never ask whether a given lesson needs it, a gap that recent evidence on time-to-mastery makes …
PERSPECTIVES Ai in education I, Me, Myself: Black Coffee and ChatGPT An honest reflection on the role of educators in the ongoing discussion surrounding AI in education, critical thinking, curriculum integration, teacher accountability, …
PERSPECTIVES Ai governance AI Education Needs Authority Literacy Before Agent Literacy Agentic AI is shifting from answering questions to taking actions. Before students learn to make AI agents more capable, they need to learn how to define, inspect, and …
PERSPECTIVES Ai environment What It Costs Us Now: Toward a Life Cycle Ledger for Every AI Query The UN has confirmed what AI firms long obscured. A case for full life cycle accounting of every query, so its true environmental magnitude can no longer be hidden.
PERSPECTIVES Ai in education Beyond Model Capability: The Pedagogical Singularity as Institutional Reorganization Dr. Szymon Machajewski relocates the 'pedagogical singularity' from a threshold in AI capability to a threshold in institutional design, arguing that what determines …
COMMENTARY Agi On "From AGI to ASI" A commentary on Genewein et al.'s Google DeepMind report mapping the pathways from human-level AGI to superintelligence, read through the lenses of education, societal …
PERSPECTIVES Ai in education The Emerging AI Divide in Higher Education Drawing on experience across higher education in the UK and Malaysia, two academics argue that the real AI divide in universities is not about access to tools but about …
PERSPECTIVES Ai governance Built for AI, or Built for Us? Reading Anthropic's new reports on the 'AI exponential' and recursive self-improvement alongside recent scholarship on tech oligarchy, this piece asks a simple question: …
OPINION Ai governance A Moral Architecture for the Age of Artificial Intelligence While big tech races to release larger models and newer capabilities, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas offers something no benchmark can measure: a moral …
EDITORIAL Educause Society & AI Named in the 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report on Teaching and Learning An independent scholarly platform founded in July 2025, recognized in higher education's most influential annual report on the future of teaching and learning.
WORKING PAPER On device ai Infrastructure as Curriculum: What Students Learn When AI Works Offline A short paper arguing that when AI runs offline on local devices in classrooms, the infrastructural constraints themselves become pedagogically meaningful.
PERSPECTIVES Cultural intelligence The Cultures That Calibrate AI The responses AI systems produce as correct, appropriate, and helpful are not discovered — they are decided. This essay asks who does the deciding, and what gets erased …
Photo Story Earth month Hyderabad Earth Day Photo Story, Day Three: Young Minds Present Cooler City Futures The concluding photo story from Earth Month 2026 in Hyderabad, where learners presented their Cool Your City Challenge models, welcomed environmental advocates, and …
Photo Story Earth month Hyderabad Earth Day Photo Story, Day Two: Pollinators, Heat Maps, and Cooling the City A follow-up photo story from day two of Earth Month 2026 in Hyderabad, where children explored pollinators, real-time climate maps, and city-cooling design through …
Photo Story Earth month Hyderabad Earth Day Photo Story: Learning From the Ground Below A photo story from the opening day of Earth Month 2026 in Hyderabad, where children explored soil as a living system through observation, worksheets, magnifiers, and …
WORKING PAPER Intelligence management Beyond AI Literacy: Teaching Intelligence Management A working paper arguing that education must move from AI tool use toward human authority, judgment, and accountability over AI systems.
PERSPECTIVES Library publishing AI and Library Publishing: A Reflection A Scholarly Communications Librarian reflects on how AI is reshaping library publishing programs—from ethical disclosure frameworks to the philosophical tensions between …
OPINION Pedagogy Toward an Intelligence Management Curriculum After reading Anthropic's Project Glasswing announcement, an AI in education researcher argues that the field is facing a genuine emergency: a frontier AI model now …
PERSPECTIVES Causality We Are Living in the Effects of a Cause We Never Authorized Borrowing the causal invariance principle from physics, this essay argues that AI is producing a structural violation of causal order in society, displacing workers and …
EDITORIAL Open education week A Closing Note on Open Education Week 2026 at Society & AI Six guest contributors joined Society & AI for Open Education Week 2026 — from classroom practitioners to policy researchers, across three countries and five disciplines. …
PERSPECTIVES Nature based education AI Is Not the Root: A Reflection from Nature-Based Education A nature-based educator reflects on the tension between AI integration in education and the structural inequities it claims to solve, arguing for the enduring value of …
PERSPECTIVES Compute divide Beyond the Open-Weights: Open Education, the Global Compute Divide, and the Future of AI Literacy Open AI is not truly open if schools, researchers, and communities lack the compute to run it. The next frontier for Open Education is equitable access to infrastructure, …
INSIGHTS Ai education From Yes-Man to Wait-Man: What Changed When I Stopped Letting AI Talk Over My Thinking A bilingual educator examines how alignment with AI emerges not from better prompting but from deliberate boundary-setting and sustained correction over time—building on …
INSIGHTS Ai literacy Lecturer Development Requirements to Teach AI Literacy: Lessons from a European Student Survey An instructional designer and researcher with the METACOG Erasmus+ project draws on survey data from 360 students across four countries to identify what lecturers must …
INSIGHTS Research integrity Critical Thinking for Equity on Both Ends of the AI Model A Research Support Librarian and Open Research Champion at Sheffield Hallam University examines what transparency, equity, and responsible practice really require when …
INSIGHTS Ai literacy The Case for Coherent, Whole-Program AI Literacy Integration Higher education's AI response requires systems thinking, not a triage or 'you do you' mindset — which places students last. A report from the ACORN initiative at San …
PERSPECTIVES Adaptation Who Is Adapting Whom? We speak of adapting to AI as though it is a natural force we must accommodate. But AI is built from human traces—and the question of who is shaping whom is far more …
RESEARCH Ai education To Boldly Go Where Our Purpose-Built AI Had Not Gone Before Teacher educators document how a purpose-built math bot evolved into a broader instructional co-designer through exploratory prompting.
PERSPECTIVES Philosophical intelligence The Case for Philosophical Intelligence What happens when we stop asking machines to answer and start asking them to wonder? A case for philosophical intelligence as the next frontier beyond reasoning and world …
PERSPECTIVES Human in the loop The Human-in-the-Loop Economy Why cultural context, embodied wisdom, and the capacity to sense what machines cannot may define the most valuable form of intelligence in the age of automation
PERSPECTIVES Algorithmic discipline Is AI Disciplining Society? Examining how algorithmic systems discipline society—training populations to conform, punishing deviation, and reshaping behavior without consent.
COMMENTARY Wef 2026 The Vanishing Ladder: Education in a Post-Labor Society A commentary on the World Economic Forum 2026 debate between Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, examining urgent implications for workforce …
INSIGHTS Ai education Holding the Line: Teaching Alongside AI Without Losing Voice A bilingual educator reflects on maintaining professional judgment, voice, and human accountability while working alongside AI systems in high-need public school contexts
PERSPECTIVES Ai environment The Invisible Cost of Every Chat AI companies warn us about accuracy—but remain silent on the environmental footprint of every query
PERSPECTIVES Cloud capital Cloud Capital and the Extraction of Mind How AI systems extract cognitive labor while accumulating capital for the few, and what this means for education and society
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS Society centered ai The Learning Society Thesis: Why Education Is Humanity's Only Scalable Adaptation Technology A foundational framework arguing that education, not tools, not resources, not institutions, is the mechanism through which human societies adapt to existential change. …
WORKING PAPER Education Is Education at a Punctuated Equilibrium? When AI becomes the new blackboard: exploring the transformation of learning in an age of artificial intelligence
COMMENTARY Generative ai When AI Gives Instant Answers, What Are We Really Learning? A commentary on how generative AI in education challenges us to rethink what skills matter when knowledge is always at our fingertips.
COMMENTARY Undp Brain Drain 2.0: The Invisible Extraction Why the next great divergence won't be about who leaves, but what is taken.
CURRENTS Ai in education AI, Education & Society: November 2025 in Review A comprehensive worldwide review of significant developments in society-centered AI and AI in education during November 2025
PERSPECTIVES Ai education Is the AI-Generation AI-Damaged? A reflective inquiry into cognitive atrophy, educational purpose, and what it means to learn when generative systems can imitate thinking faster than human minds can …
WORKING PAPER Universal basic ai What Is Universal Basic AI? Why everyone deserves an AI companion aligned to their flourishing
INSIGHTS Ai literacy Adopting and Adapting in AI Societies Why education is the essential vehicle for navigating the age of artificial intelligence.
YOUNG MINDS Growth mindset Building Confidence & Growth Mindset for Young Learners A joyful song-based resource to teach young learners about confidence, perseverance, and growth mindset—aligned with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) standards worldwide.
COMMENTARY Personality psychology Personality-Aware AI as a Design Imperative for Human-Centered Societies A commentary on personality-informed AI design frameworks, examining the shift from universal usability to pluralistic AI ecosystems that adapt to psychological diversity
Fundamental Concepts Vibe pedagogy What is Vibe Pedagogy? How AI enables educators to create personalized, culturally responsive learning experiences through natural conversation
INSIGHTS Ai literacy Promptgramming: A New Literacy for AI Societies A companion piece to our 2024 technical report introducing promptgramming—the fusion of programming and prompting—as an essential literacy for navigating AI-mediated …
YOUNG MINDS Ai literacy Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explained for Kids A joyful, song-based introduction to AI designed for young learners, educators, and families—crafted with Educator-in-the-Loop principles and Flesch-Kincaid readability …
PERSPECTIVES Algorithmic governance The Rise of Algorithmic Societies: When Machines Govern Learning How automated decision-making is reshaping education and what it means for human agency
RESEARCH Offline ai SHIELD-ing Education: When AI Works Without the Internet On-device AI tutoring in rural India shows that equitable computing education does not require connectivity.
PERSPECTIVES Human flourishing Preserving Wonder: The Role of Curiosity in AI-Mediated Learning Environments Why efficiency-driven AI systems risk extinguishing the curiosity and wonder that fuel deep learning—and how we can design technology that preserves rather than …
FOCUS AREA Systems thinking Systems & Complexity Mapping education as a complex adaptive system to identify AI leverage points
FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS Society What Is Society? A pragmatic definition of how people, institutions, and shared meaning organize collective life
Focus Area Society centered ai What Is Society-Centered AI? Society-centered AI extends human-centered design into collective, civic, and institutional contexts—positioning affected communities as co-designers, co-owners, and …
Blog Regenerative economy Skills for a Regenerative Economy Literacy, numeracy, climate and data competencies
Blog Flourishing The Flourishing Index A holistic metric suite for well-being in AI-integrated societies
Perspective Article Assessment Measuring Learning that Matters Success metrics beyond standardized tests
FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS Society centered ai On World Teachers' Day: Why Society & AI Begins with You A letter to the world's educators on the launch of the Society & AI.
FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS Complex systems Education as a Complex System Mapping actors, feedbacks, and leverage points for change
FOCUS AREA Educational equity Educational Equity as Leverage Why quality education is humanity's meta-solution for addressing global challenges
Blog Public interest ai Public-Interest AI Principles, playbooks, and procurement for the common good
FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS Collaborative intelligence What Is Collaborative Intelligence? Redefining knowledge as co-authored by humans and machines
PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE Ai AI for Foundational Learning Early-grade reading and math with equity-centered design
Blog Cultural evolution Cultural Evolution in AI Societies How norms shift through tools, media, and networks
FOCUS AREA Human flourishing Human Flourishing in AI Societies Preserving agency, meaning, and dignity as cognitive labor becomes automated
COMMENTARY Ai education AI and Education Beyond 2030: Mapping the Grand Challenges Reflections on a collaborative research agenda defining four grand challenges for AI in education
FOCUS AREA Knowledge creation Knowledge & Intelligence How AI transforms knowledge creation, validation, and collaborative intelligence
INSIGHTS Ai ethics The Next Horizon of AI in Education Research: A Perspective Exploring the paradigm shift in education research through AI
INQUIRY Social cohesion Social Cohesion & Trust Guardrails for misinformation, attention, and civic participation
COMMENTARY Indigenous knowledge Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Artificial Intelligence: Toward Ethical Frameworks for Digital Sovereignty Reframing AI ethics through Indigenous epistemologies, consent protocols, and data governance rooted in sovereignty and relational accountability.
