“People are rejecting the systems that have been put in place by people who stand to profit off our compliance...The doomscrolling economy is not one that we need to keep participating in." theguardian.com/technology/2…

Researchers surveyed 319 knowledge workers and found that the more they trusted AI, the less critical-thinking effort they reported. microsoft.com/en-us/research…

“What we determined from our dog-walking experiment was that agents are still very bad at controlling hardware...And humans are still needed in the loop.” nytimes.com/2026/10/27/techn…

“They think the way you toughen kids up is to get them to clean a bathroom, and the way you get them to learn is to power through it as quickly as possible...These are naïve theories of psychology.” nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/al…

"Students were sold on the hopes of finding a lucrative job...at a time of economic uncertainty and rapidly rising costs. In the end, though, they reported the company often gave improbable, deceptive, or false information about job prospects..." slate.com/life/2026/10/jobs-…

Relationslipping - "The more they turned to AI instead of a teammate, the more their trust in each other and their ability to coordinate seemed to erode." hbr.org/2026/10/team-dynamic…

“It's a precarious moment and it’s discouraging...The signal that it sends to the general public, to the companies, most importantly to the women, is really awful.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"AI is not ready for children yet...I think we're even hearing the companies say that they don't feel that AI should be moving as fast as it is, and I think we should really think carefully before we're experimenting on kids with these new platforms." npr.org/2026/10/09/nx-s1-599…

“The binding constraint on growth is no longer intelligence...It is human verification bandwidth.” nytimes.com/2026/10/10/busin…

"So if you were ever curious to know what kind of future our tech billionaire overlords have in mind for future generations, now you know: a future where it’s fine if nobody knows their own phone number, because your AI assistant will know it for you." futurism.com/health-medicine…

“We’re doing this experiment on an entire generation on cognitive development, with no control group...It’s really uncertain what that’s going to lead to in terms of learning.” wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-ge…

"...these studies so far agree: Artificial intelligence is affecting how people, especially the young, learn and remember. Whether we will be dumber as a result might depend on how — not if — we use A.I." nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

“It seems like the university leadership has allowed a week or two of negative media attention to undo a policy that was decided at one of our colleges...I would like to see the university have a stronger center and believe in the people that they hire.” chronicle.com/article/u-of-m…

"Sometimes they will confuse the idea of reading and understanding a proof with being able to do the proof themselves.” wapo.st/3VFlEiu

“If they are not receiving proper feedback, if they feel like their degree is not as meaningful for employers...if they think that having a university degree doesn’t help them that much with guaranteeing a job – why would they come to university, really?” theguardian.com/australia-ne…

"We wrestle with what does success really mean when it comes to AI use? And what metric do we want to use in order to evaluate that? And we have not come to an answer yet." npr.org/2026/09/28/nx-s1-575…

“We observe how students actually used the AI tutor, and the answer is: not much...Seeking help with one’s own confusion remained a choice, and most students declined it most of the time.” hechingerreport.org/proof-po…

“Baseline data in these LLMs are changing weekly, and traditional research models cannot keep up...By the time researchers have a finding, it’s no longer relevant or generalizable.” insidehighered.com/news/tech…

"...the technology may be helping students succeed at school while making them worse at the skills schools are supposed to teach." thewalrus.ca/what-if-student…

"In nearly 30 percent of the conversations, chatbots made a safety error such as providing a diagnosis or agreeing with a teen who rejected crisis support, mostly later in the conversation after several back-and-forth messages." wapo.st/4hEuqWB