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The students booing AI aren’t Luddites

image via fastcompany.com
image via fastcompany.com

It’s graduation week, which means the emissaries of the nation’s elite are now descending onto college campuses to deliver the much-discussed and, they hope, indelibly quotable college commencement address. The problem this year, however, is that the news of the day is artificial intelligence, and students just don’t want to hear it. AI has become a hobgoblin of bad graduation addresses, landing somewhere between cringe, out of touch, and offensive.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91544892/the-students-booing-ai-arent-luddites

To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

image via arstechnica.com
image via arstechnica.com

But since the appearance of ChatGPT, the instructor’s job isn’t just to teach the subject and frantically attempt to keep every student’s plate spinning. Increasingly, it’s to moonlight as a detective and prosecutor because students without the motivation to do the work don’t have to skip it anymore. They can turn in a work-shaped simulacrum almost as easily. And a substantial number do—in a recent College Board survey of 600 high school students, 84 percent said they had used generative AI for schoolwork.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/

TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

image via techcrunch.com
image via techcrunch.com

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s early days, TikTok is launching a new feature that allows college students to find and connect with others on their campus. The feature, called Campus Verification, lets users add their college campus to their TikTok profile and browse a list of students at their school.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/tiktoks-latest-feature-lets-college-students-find-and-connect-with-classmates/