Atlan engineers banned from coding, only allowed to teach AI, says founder Prukalpa Sankar

Atlan engineers banned from coding, only allowed to teach AI, says founder Prukalpa Sankar

At a time when AI is replacing skilled workers across organisations, there is a company called Atlan which is asking engineers to teach AI to do their work. The company, which is into metadata management, has asked its engineers to teach AI how to code to build an autonomous organisation. This approach is not just…

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or…

ChatGPT, Gemini in UAE classrooms: How schools teach safe, responsible AI use

ChatGPT, Gemini in UAE classrooms: How schools teach safe, responsible AI use

Artificial intelligence has moved beyond theory in the UAE and is increasingly becoming part of everyday classroom learning. Many private schools are now allowing students to use generative AI tools for assignments and homework, provided they verify and properly cite the information. Among the platforms approved for supervised student use are ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Leonardo…

What Aristotle and Socrates can teach us about using generative AI

What Aristotle and Socrates can teach us about using generative AI

araelf/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways AI language models can erode our ability to create new ideas.   Other types of AI models can help us improve our critical thinking.  The focus on globalization technology must shift to local intelligence. We are at a confluence of AI…