media

talks

podcasts

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  Inside the MIT Report on How AI Is Eroding Campus Culture
  Learning Curve · September 2026
  A look at MIT's internal report on AI on campus, and my perspectives on fractured social learning as a student leader.
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  Equity, Ethics, Engagement in AI
  Voices of 2 Blocks · March 2024
  A panel from the Design Redefined seminar series (Innovators for Purpose, MIT Museum, and MIT MAD) on inclusion as a driver of AI innovation and how to bring underrepresented groups into the field.
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  Navigating the Intersection of AI and Education
  Voices of 2 Blocks · February 2024
  A conversation about how AI is entering schools, why ethics, bias, and privacy need to shape it, and why it should complement rather than replace human mentorship.

press

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

I served on this committee. Below is press coverage of our report.

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  MIT Report Warns of AI "Cognitive Surrender"
  CNN · September 2026
  CNN's Becky Anderson interviews committee co-chair Sam Madden about what the report's findings mean for AI in education.
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  MIT Report Calls for AI-Aware Redesign of Higher Ed
  GovTech · September 2026
  Coverage of our report's call for universities to rethink teaching, research, and campus life as generative AI reshapes learning.
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  An MIT Report Warns AI Is Causing "Cognitive Surrender." Universities Are in a Bind.
  The New York Times · September 2026
  How universities are caught between embracing AI and heeding warnings, like those in our report, that it is isolating students and creating an illusion of learning.
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  MIT Says AI Is Forcing a Rethink of College Itself
  Forbes · August 2026
  An overview of our recommendations, from redesigned assessments and course-level AI rules to renewed emphasis on hands-on learning.

AI Literacy and Civic Literacy

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  Adults Have Struggled to Set Rules for AI in School. These Teens Figured It Out.
  NPR · July 2026
  About 100 teenagers come together to draft their own rules for AI in school, from homework and tests to who should teach AI literacy, in a simulation inspired by my work on youth voice and AI policy.
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  Day of AI Curriculum Meets the Moment
  MIT News · June 2023
  MIT RAISE's second annual Day of AI, featuring a mock U.S. Senate simulation on AI and human rights that I co-designed with the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
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  Hey, Alexa, What Should Students Learn About A.I.?
  The New York Times · June 2023
  How tech companies, universities, and nonprofits are stepping in with free AI literacy lessons, including Day of AI's Alexa lesson at Dearborn STEM Academy.
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  'Day of AI' Spurs Classroom Discussions on Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
  Education Week · May 2023
  How the Day of AI curriculum I helped develop weaves ethical, social, and policy questions, anchored in the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, into lessons on how AI works.
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  Want Ethical AI? Hand the Keys to Middle Schoolers.
  Popular Science · November 2021
  A look inside Everyday AI, a two-week curriculum I helped develop that teaches middle schoolers to spot the ethics and biases built into algorithms.

Interviews on Current Events

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  Is Using AI Cheating? In Many Schools, Teachers Are Left to Figure It Out on Their Own.
  The Boston Globe · October 2024
  On New England schools' slow response to AI, where Eric Klopfer and I argue that districts need clear policies before problems arise.