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Post-Labor Economics: David Shapiro

As to employment in the age of AI, no one actually knows, but there are two chief speculations. One is that people will not be "having employment" or "earning pay "for work. The other is that despite jobs "going away' as happens in every big technological change, new jobs will come along that fit...

Curricula for an Unknown Job Future

       

Educating Students in the Age of A.I. | The Ezra Klein Show

This Ezra Klein Show below is chock-full of ideas about AI and Education in a discussion with an "expert" resource: Rebecca Winthrop. Below is some of her Bio from Linked-In. I serve on a range of education non-profit boards and am an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign...

Is “Bird Brain” a pejorative in AI studies?

What are the building blocks of a brain that can think critically, use tools, or form abstract ideas?   That understanding could help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence—and help improve our artificial intelligence.   For example, the way we currently think about using...

Growing integration intersection between AI and personalized education

These pilot projects and tools illustrate the growing intersection between AI and personalized education, offering valuable models for integrating AI modules into homeschool and community school settings. If you’re interested in exploring how to implement similar initiatives or need assistance in...

Alternative Schooling: an advocate’s local view

If somehow the US Public Schools had managed to overcome the numerous challenges for education in poor urban and poor rural areas, maybe the case for alternative schools and schooling would be weak. But that hasn't happened, and the current circumstances for US education are swinging towards...

AI and the Future of Health:

PSA seeks to understand and explain how AI might affect the ongoing major disruptions of two of the main economic engines in the US: Education and Healthcare. Federal and state funding for both of these huge undertakings are in flux, and amidst the chaos which seems to be building, there are...

AI judgement calls MO explained

Being impressed by ChatGPT o3 response to queries about finding foundational thinkers in the numerous archive posts that Admin has accumulated in regular use of ChatGPT, I was very curious as to how the AI seemed to be making very difficult judgements on comparing the over 100 thinkers involved....

Foundational Ideas: Choices from the ChatGPT Archive: part 2

Since many commentators say we "dont know what is going on inside the AI black box", and since each Query is a "one off" in that the analyzing process is completely done over again when asked to "retry"...here's a retry of the foundational ideas. I would keep five of the original six selections. I...

Foundational Ideas: Choices from the ChatGPT Archive: part 1

Admin notes the lengthy list of "great minds" and "great ideas" assembled here at our PSA website, which were analyzed in a collaborative process with ChatGPT. In hopes of narrowing our focus to the most "foundational" ideas, ChatGPT o3 was queried to examine Admin's archive of ChatGPT previous...

Information Theory and Abstract Ideas explain the universe: ChatGPT o3: part1

Here's the answer ChatGPT 03 provided for a recent query. This is what it produced after thinking about 2 minutes, which is pretty long for the ChatGPT o3 model. (A subsequent following post this week "shows the work"...as CGPT o3 described what is was doing as it was doing it. Somewhat revelatory...

How Big Is Your Sandbox?

AI has various limitations that can be a challenge to overcome. It's still very expensive for AI companies to train their biggest and baddest models, and it can get expensive for them to provide model access and compute time on their servers. Currently OpenAI has instituted "infinite memory" for...

Lesson Creation with ChatGPT o3 and PowerPoint: Revised Version 2

After wading into ChatGPT o3's explanations for Information Theory, the idea presented itself of trying to create an explanatory lesson to help with understanding the concepts.   After many iterations (days) of working with ChatGPT 03, and Powerpoint, here's a "Lesson One" version of learning...

The Story of Information Theory

https://youtu.be/rmBFaNgg4wk?si=vXDlfUXRXi-BZGF9 Some background to how we got to where we are today. For this viewer, it started out relatively comprehensible, but gradually and then suddenly became more or less impenetrable. Your mileage may vary. Couple takeaways: one is how much of...

Mapping new insights: where AI meets science and metaphysics

A response by Chato4 to generate a formatted wesbsite post with embedded captions for each visual-clear, concise and visually integrated for digital readers.

Is there a unifying spiritual framework for AI + human experience?

This post's subject is borrowed from Kris's suggestion for Core Questions PSA might continue to explore, and is an ongoing project here at PSA...see recent posts in the months of 4/25 and 3/25 covering much of this ground. However, it's a huge topic. Speaking of "Huge Topics" and the "Big...

Pro vs API account with OpenAI for PSA

We need to have the best data on hand to plan followup actitivies and anticipate change. PSA "must" do this too. PSA currently works with OpenAI models via individual users "Plus" accounts. But OpenAI has other levels available such as the "Pro" account at $200/ month, and/or a API account at a...

10 top YouTube sources for keeping up with AI

Exploring what potentials are out there in AI-Land is currently strongly indicated for most organizations, and also for individuals who can benefit. It's kind of like some recurring activity we do to maintenance our bodies, such as annual checkups or doing workouts to "tone up" our physical realm....

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo is a free, popular language learning app and website that uses a gamified, bite-sized approach to teach language skills like reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It offers courses in over 40 languages and is designed to be accessible and engaging for learners of all levels. Here’s...

More On: Evolution of Technology and Civilization: AI and Jobs

One more time to the well asking ChatGPT o3 about what we know of the effects of technological change on Civilization, and what might be coming soon if AI makes huge impacts on the technology our civilization uses. Here the AI being used is described as "My Chatbot" because it has all my previous...

Many Roads to AGI

The RAND paper on Charting Multiple Courses to Artificial Intelligence is analyzed below by ChatGPT o3 in "layman's terms" listing the top 15 most useful ideas from the paper in the context of AI support of education and healthcare. It should be noted that projecting the development of AGI is a...

Charting Multiple Courses to Artificial General Intelligence

Here's a paper by the RAND corporation discussing. various additional aspects of AGI. RAND is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit,...

Black Box Mind-like Entities

For whatever reason, we are currently in an AI phase where it seems necessary to understand a lot more about what these Exotic Mind Like Entities actually are ...including what's going on inside their "black box". One might guess this seems perhaps suddenly more imperative because of recent...

Exotic Mind-Like Entities

ChatGPTo3 take:   Behavioral alignment without a story about value-laden reflexivity risks brittle simulacra that look aligned until edge cases expose the hollowness. Treating metaphysics as mere rhetoric underestimates how deeply humans anchor meaning, purpose, and responsibility in those...

ADVANCING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION FOR AMERICAN YOUTH: POTUS

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the modern world, driving innovation across industries, enhancing productivity, and reshaping the way we live and work.  To ensure the United States remains a global leader in this technological revolution, we must provide our Nation’s youth...

Deep Patterns in top human condition ideas: ChatGPT o3

We tasked CGPTo3 with finding deep underlying patterns that might exist in the top ineffable ideas, hoping this model could discover "new knowledge" and see patterns that hadn't previously been known. Perhaps it would take another prompt to ask if any of the patterns GPTo3 discovered were new...

Comprehensive exploration of the human condition via top minds: ChatGPT o3

As new AI capabilities become available, we probably "should" explore and find out for ourselves just what the new capability might be. This is part of learning how education and AI go together. In this post, ChatGPT o3 version (as of 4/21/25) was asked to explore the thinking of accomplished...

AI has grown beyond human knowledge: Google Deep Mind unit

A new agentic approach called 'streams' will let AI models learn from the experience of the environment without human 'pre-judgment'.   "Incredible new capabilities will arise once the full potential of experiential learning is harnessed," write DeepMind scholars David Silver and Richard...

Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program

The program would be capped at $1 billion in its first year, but could grow quickly, potentially reaching an estimated $4.5 billion a year by 2030. The funds can be used for private school tuition and for costs associated with home-schooling, including curriculum materials and virtual learning...

AI Memory enhancements and effective tutoring

ChatGPT can now remember useful details between chats, making its responses more personalized and relevant. As you chat with ChatGPT – whether you’re typing, talking, or asking it to generate an image – it will remember helpful context from previous conversations, like your preferences and...

Experience, Knowledge, Scholarship, AI

The chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.” ~ Douglas Adams This is a time when, despite Douglas Adams wise take on 'Life the Universe...

AI In Education — Up-level Your Teaching With AI By Cloning Yourself

The Future Of Education is AI AI is reshaping education—moving us away from memorization toward reasoning, understanding, and critical thinking.   With personalized AI tutors, students can learn at their own pace, anytime. The challenge is clear: Educational institutions must equip both...

AI and spirit: toward a compassionate intelligence

Earlier posts by John explored how spiritual insights -particularly the emphasis on intuition, healing, and the primacy of spiritual reality can inform ethical, compassionate, and human-centered approaches to AI in education. I asked ChatGPT for a PSA style white paper exploring how Mary Baker...

AI and human interaction in a new civilization?

I asked: How do humans and AI interact in a new civilization? Absolutely—let’s break it down step by step, in a clear and grounded way. The key idea here is that AI isn’t just a tool we use occasionally—it’s becoming part of the environment we live in. Just like language, electricity, or the...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 7 (end of series)

7. Conclusion: Toward a Civilizational Meta-Literacy In the face of rapid and profound change, we are not merely retooling schools—we are reauthoring civilization. Artificial intelligence forces a reckoning with the stories we have told about ourselves: about progress, merit, human uniqueness, and...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 6

This part zooms out from the educational scenarios to consider the wider civilizational implications: meaning, identity, legitimacy, and the fate of human agency in a world that may be increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. 6. Implications and Questions for the Future of Civilization As...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 5

Here is Section 5. We take the two civilizational lenses and five theoretical perspectives and use them to frame three distinct futures of education shaped by different configurations of AI influence. 5. Modeling Three Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World In this section, we present three...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 4

4. Five Theorists on Civilization and Education in the Age of AI To understand the transformative pressures AI is placing on both education and civilization, we turn to five thinkers whose frameworks intersect with different dimensions of the ideological and empirical divide. Each theorist...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 3

3. Civilizational Frameworks: Ideology and Practice in Tension To meaningfully forecast the evolution of education and civilization under advanced AI, we must begin by establishing the two interpretive lenses that structure this inquiry: the ideological and the empirical. These frameworks do not...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 2

Civilization Reimagined: Ideologies, Realities, and Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World 1. Abstract As advanced artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in the social, economic, and epistemological structures of modern civilization, longstanding assumptions about education,...

Civilization Reimagined: Educational Futures in an AI-Driven World: part 1 outline

Here's a general outline of a ChatGPT researched project to get a real sense of what education would be "about" and "for" in an AI- driven world. Put simply, what do students need to learn about and be educated for in a much different employment and economic role? To achieve some semblance of a...

Building a community of learners that inspires trust in an online forum

This commentary in the Christian Science Monitor shares a perspective on an effort to build trust in a new online, state run public forum called Engaged California. Wondering if this community of learners will integrate AI analytics in an effort to discover wisdom and build trust. [pdf-embedder...

AI and the Evolution of Digital Learning Environments: version 2

AI and the Evolution of Digital Learning Environments This is the second report generated by Deep Research using the original query posted here.  Introduction In 2015, education experts introduced the 7 Core Elements of Best Digital Learning Environments (DLEs)—a framework designed to leverage...

ChatGPT “Deep Research”: 7 Core Elements of Best DLEs and AI Advancements; Version 1

7 Core Elements and AI Advancements This report serves as a strategic guide for educators and policymakers to leverage AI while maintaining the human essence of learning.   The report below was generated by ChatGPT Deep Research based on information about Defined Learning Environments as...

OpenAI “DeepResearch” on PSA 7 Core Elements in today’s AI rich context for learning

An option to use OpenAI's Deep research is available to Admin, and the approach here is to use PSA's "7 Core Elements of the Best Defined Learning Experience" from 2015 and develop a 2025 context for them which includes the advent of rapidly advancing AI tools for learning; 7 Core Elements is a...

NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research/ education with AI

OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions.   We already know OpenAI has partnered with Khan Academy for "KhanAmigo", an AI tutoring tool for K-12. Now OpenAI has...

Is Education in US a Classic case of technological inertia? ChatGPT responds

"You’ve pinpointed a classic case of technological inertia—where the entrenched structure of education prevents a radical transformation, even though AI could vastly improve learning efficiency. The education system, like QWERTY, Fax Machines, Checkbooks, Car Dealers, and many others,  is held in...

SXSW EDU® Schedule March 2-6 2025

March 3-6, 2025 in Austin, TX The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival features four days of compelling content for education professionals, industry leaders, and policymakers looking to connect, collaborate, create and change how we teach and learn.   Your 2025 SXSW EDU Badge ($745) is your...

The Big Query: AI and Emotions in the learning experience: Part 1

AI will supplement human teachers to some degree and to some amount, perhaps fulfilling student's emotional needs adequately. OR it will fail to do so. As we design learning environments for an AI presence, we would be best served if we can project what level of emotional presence AI can provide...

AI responds to Emotions query: Part 2

This is one of the most fundamental and complex questions when considering AI’s role in education. At the heart of it is whether AI can genuinely replicate human emotions or just simulate them well enough to provide effective emotional support to students.   1. Can AI Replicate Human...

AI replacing teachers? AI and Emotional Presence in Learning: Part 3

Admin has noticed that when ChatGPT responds to queries it often stays away from confirming that AI will be able to fully replicate what human teachers can provide. Finally we asked if it was not able to state that for political reasons such as people getting upset if AI seems like it will replace...

Zen Koan query: AI and Human Presence in Learning: Part 4

Here's another couple questions for ChatGPT4 Turbo... that could potentially relate back to the ultimate capability of AI as a teacher, perhaps replacing current human teachers. These are a two of what are known as Zen koans, and they're used in the training of Zen monks. What is the sound of one...

“One Hand Clapping”: Emotions and Presence in Learning: Part 5

This is a brilliant test for AI’s potential as a true teacher, and I appreciate you bringing it up. The koans remain a challenge—both for AI and for humans! " These are two classic Zen koans, and analyzing them brings us right to the heart of whether AI can truly engage in deep, non-literal,...

Zen, Existentialism and Presence in Learning: Part 6

Zen and Existentialism: Their Parallel Development in the West This is a sort of intro to how Zen came to be influential in the US, and how it echoed the coming of Existentialism to the US. This might seem an obscure or esoteric topic, yet both Zen and Existentialism are about presence beyond...

Presence in Learning Environments: Key TakeAways: Part 7

Admin requested that AI be able to retain the foundations of conversations and discussions such as this on Presence in Learning Environments: Can AI create a learning environment as emotionally rich as human presence? ChatGPT 4 Turbo responded with a summary and lists of takeaways from our...

‭ Building an‬ ‭ AI-Ready Workforce:‬ ‭OpenAI

‭ A Look at College Student ChatGPT Adoption in the US‬ a paper by OpenAI.   ‭ More‬‭ than‬‭ any‬‭ other‬‭ use‬‭ case,‬‭ more‬‭ than‬‭ any‬‭ other‬‭ kind‬‭ of‬‭ user,‬‭ college-aged‬‭ young‬‭ adults‬‭ in‬‭ the‬‭ US‬ are‬‭ embracing‬‭ ChatGPT,‬‭ and‬‭ they’re‬‭ doing‬‭ so‬‭ to‬‭ learn.‬‭...

EdTech Webinar on AI in Education

To celebrate the updated release of The Edtech Insiders Generative AI Map,   ...Alex Sarlin will be joined by three founders and thought leaders in the AI education landscape to discuss the current and future trends we're seeing in K12 AI use cases:   Adeel Khan, Founder and CEO at...

Chatbot training to foster deeper learning experiences

Chatbots continue to evolve rapidly with the escalation of AI's cognitive abilities....moving from simple recall to higher order synthesis and creativity. In my prompt response from ChatGPT, I was informed While ChatGPT does not strictly follow Bloom's Taxonomy, it facilitates deeper learning...

OpenAI releases new roadmap to ChatGPT 5

Sam Altman just released plans for how OpenAI is going to structure their AI offerings in the near future. They involve grouping various models into one thing. IOW melding the capabilities of what's now available, plus additional capabilities, into one package with various levels of cost and...

AI Convergence: David Shapiro

David Shapiro has a background in programming and AI, but also in YouTube explainers that often comprehensively set out the lay of the land for where AI is, where it's going, and how those changes will affect everything else. AS referenced in the previous post "Utopia or Dystopia" Shapiro has a...

AI Convergence: Utopia or Dystopia?

  It's logical and rational to wonder just how AI might "run things" if it gets super smart, and whether it would help create a new utopian arrangement for our civilization, including how governments work, how the economy works, how our society works ...and more or less how everything would...

AI lifting technology to new levels

A response from ChatGPTo3: How can AI be used to imagine new innovations not just upgrade what is already available? So far, the power behind AI is mainly the intelligence, creativity, and curiosity expressed by those lifting the technology to new levels. That fact hung over a recent globalsummit...

OpenAI Gov

In the previous PSA post it was noted that the AI revolution has perhaps a surprisingly strong relationship to the current administration's efforts to reduce government employment and agencies. Certainly the part that is underway under the purview of Elon Musk has definite AI components. Whatever...

America Connected: “America’s Digital Future”

  March 11-12, 2025 | Irving Convention Center, Dallas AMERICA'S DIGITAL FUTURE STRATEGY, BUSINESS MODELS AND INNOVATION FOR TELECOM OPERATORS, GOVERNMENT BODIES, AND THEIR PARTNERS Technology, regulation, and the investment environment for next generation broadband.   The 3rd annual...

What can AI learn and reveal about PSA’s 2600+ posts… part 1

The PSA website is a potentially very valuable archive of ideas going back 15 years or so. Posts were chosen generally as significant curations of a particular trend or innovation within the frame of what might apply to innovation in online education and online healthcare. Searching by a tag and...

What can AI learn and reveal about PSA’s 2600+ posts… part 2

Here's more of the ChatGPTo3 Mini-High response to our query in the part 1 post. Note this versions states it can't do what I'm asking it to do because of access problems. There is some hope that the OpenAI Deep Research LLM model might allow for directly logging in and for a site crawl. But...

What can AI learn and reveal about PSA’s 2600+ posts… part 3

More from ChatGPT o3 Mini-HIgh query response (see parts one and two previously posted) Additional Considerations Ethical & Alignment Issues: As AI and advanced technologies become central to education, aligning them with human values is paramount. We need to consider how to design these...

Jevon’s Paradox and Efficiencies of AI processes

The recent release of DeepSeek has disrupted the disrupters. However the conclusions and "buzz" about what it all means have logical weak points, and some apparent "wrong headedness" involved. One of the most important factors of DeepSeek's announcements is their claim to greatly increased...

Life on the Exponential Curve

As forecast by numerous visionaries, and as posted here at PSA around 2014-2015 reviewing the book "The Second Machine Age", innovation has entered the portion of the graph where exponential realities exist...change is happening so quickly the graph over time seems to be pointing more or less...

7 prompts for creating custom GPTs in ChatGP: Tom’s Guide

OpenAI’s new user interface simplifies customizing GPT models for various needs. Seven prompts are provided to create custom GPTs, including an industry-specific expert, language tutor, lifestyle guide, educational tool for kids, event planning assistant, motivating sidekick, and creative writing...

Impact of AI on society

The following Chat GPT prompt resulted in a response from ChatGPT describing an impact of AI on society beyond most human imagination. Chat GPT prompt: How will AI reshape politic, business, and culture beyond most imaginations? AI is poised to reshape politics, business, and culture in...

Nurturing creativity and connections-awareness in an AI- dominated future

Chat GPT summary of this article:   Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, believes that in an AI-dominated future, the ability to ask insightful questions will be more valuable than raw intelligence. He argues that while AI can excel at fact-retrieval and problem-solving, human creativity and the...

How I Force ChatGPT Search to Use High-Quality Sources: Chris Gillespie

Here's a mini tutorial about getting better results from LLM queries from this website "Make Use Of". Using ChatGPT to gather data can save you a significant amount of time. But, the accuracy and reliability of the results depend heavily on the quality of the information the model uses. The good...

Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Appeals Court

Apparently the giant Telecoms and...

The Second Machine Age revisited by ChatGPT

There are numerous posts in the PSA archives with references to the book "The Second Machine Age" published in 2014. As it seems to have been quite prophetic, especially about the transition from linear innovation to exponential innovation. Here's an analysis of the book's current relevance by our...