Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions. Common Sense Media (2025).
72% of teens have used AI Companions; half at least a few months a month; 13% are daily users.
One in three use AI Companions for social and emotional supports, including conversations, role-playing, friendship or romantic interactions.
One in three find conversations with AIs more satisfying that those with real-life human friends.
AI to the Rescue: It's an All-Purpose Study Tool -- and It's Changing Students' Relationships with Professors and Peers. The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 20. 2025).
Reward, Risk, and Regulation: American Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence. Gallup (2025)
Cracks in the Expert Pipeline: The invisible costs of making knowledge effortless in the age of AI. Women Writin' Bout AI (August, 17, 2025).
Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI. NPR (August 11, 2025).
AI to the Rescue. It’s an all-purpose study tool — and it’s changing students’ relationships with professors and peers. The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 20, 2025).
A.I. is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. Bill Wasik. The New York Times Magazine (June 16, 2025).
5 AI Bots Took Our Tough Reading Test. One Was the Smartest -- And It Wasn't ChatGPT. The Washington Post (June 4. 2025).
GPT.4.5 has Passed the Turing Test. What Does That Mean for Teachers? Tech&Learning. (June 2, 2025).
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students into the AI Future. The New York Times (May 19, 2025).
What Counts as Learning When AI Can Imitate It? Psychology Today (May 17, 2025).
Google is Going to Let Kids Use Its Gemini AI. The Verge (May 2, 2025).
LATAM GPT Aims to Create AI That Better Represents Latin America’s Diversity. NBC News (March 26, 2025).
AI Toys Advisory: 5 Reasons Not to Buy AI Toys. Fairplay (2025)
Expanding Economic Opportunity with AI. Fidji Simo. OpenAI (September 4, 2025).
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing. Fortune (August 18, 2025).
21 Ways People Are Using AI at Work. Larry Buchanan & Francesca Paris. The Upshot: New York Times (August 11, 2025).
Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer is A.I. Natallie Rocha. The New York Times (July 7, 2025).
Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately than Human Doctors. Will Knight. Wired (June 30, 2025).
What Web Browsing Data Tells Us about How AI Appears Online. Pew Research Center (May 23, 2025). Quotes from the survey report:
The vast majority (93%) visited at least one page monthly that mentioned AI, even if that mention was brief or unrelated to the main focus of the page. Among this group, the typical (median) respondent visited this type of page 60 times during the month.
The vast majority of respondents conducted a search using a search engine like Google. And for 58% of respondents, at least one of these searches produced an AI-generated summary along with the traditional search results.
To the extent that respondents visit news pages mentioning AI, such pages don’t typically discuss the technology at length.
How an AI-Generated Summer Reading List Got Published in Major Newspapers: Only 5 of 15 Titles Were Real. NPR (May 20, 2025).
How generative AI expands curiosity and understanding with LearnLM. Google. (May 14, 2025).
From Burnout to Balance: AI-Enhanced Work Models. Upwork (July 23, 2024).
"Nearly half (47%) of workers using AI say they have no idea how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expect. Over three in four (77%) say AI tools have decreased their productivity and added to their workload in at least one way. For example, survey respondents reported that they’re spending more time reviewing or moderating AI-generated content (39%), invest more time learning to use these tools (23%), and are now being asked to do more work (21%). Forty percent of employees feel their company is asking too much of them when it comes to AI."
35 Ways Real People are Using AI Right Now! The New York Times (April 14, 2023).
4 New Tools Every Teacher Should Know. Tech&Learning, September 15, 2025.
GPT-5 has Launched: Here's Everything Teachers Need to Know. Tech&Learning, August 18, 2025.
Guided Learning in Gemini: From answers to understanding. Google Blog (August 6, 2025).
Introducing study mode (ChatGPT). OpenAI Blog (July 29, 2025).
Watch Google's tool turn a photo into a video, The Washington Post (July 10, 2025).
AI Mode: Google Unveils AI Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search. The New York Times (May 20, 2025).
Introducing Claude for Education. Claude Blog (April 2, 2025).
No Elephants: Breakthroughs in Image Generation. Ethan Mollick (March 30, 2025).
Open AI Research Finds Even its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time. Victor Tangerman. The _Byte (November 2, 2024).
INTERNATIONAL
The Future Report. Livity (October 2025). Data on digital literacy and AI use among 7000 teens in seven countries across Europe.
National AI Policies & Strategies of countries around the world (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 2025).
CHINA
China Is Making AI Classes Mandatory -- from Grade School to Graduation. Medium (May 17, 2025).
China Issues Guidelines to Promote AI Education in Primary and Secondary Schools. Global Times (May 12, 2025).
China Makes AI Education Mandatory in Schools Starting in September 2025. Asia Education Review.
UAE
UAE (United Arab Emirates) is introducing AI as a mandatory subject across all government schools.
Mind the Innovation Gap: A Roadmap for U.S. Schools After the UAE’s AI Surge. Stefan Bauschard, Education Disrupted, May 6, 2025.
FINLAND
Church Sermons, Clean Energy and Coding Inmates: Finland's AI Future is Here. Good News from Finland (March 27, 2025).
ESTONIA
Estonia and OpenAI to Bring ChatGPT to Schools Nationwide. Open AI (February 25, 2025).
A former Soviet republic, Estonia is now a democratic country of 13 million people and a leader in digital government and e-Democracy.
100% of public services are available online 24 hours a day.
16 & 17 year-olds can vote in local elections.
Since 2015 between 36% and 64% (average 51%) of Estonian citizens engage in Internet voting where they can cast votes from an Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world.
LUXEMBOURG
Artificial Intelligence: A Strategic Vision for Luxembourg. The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 2021.
Ambition #1: - To be among the most advanced digital societies in the world, especially in the EU.
Ambition #2: - To become a data-driven and sustainable economy.
Ambition #3: - To support human-centric AI development.
SOUTH KOREA
Teachers Are Leading an AI Revolution in Korean Classrooms. World Bank Blogs (October 30, 2024).
AUSTRALIA
Australia Begins Enforcing World-First Teen Social Media Ban. Reuters (December 10, 2025).
Access to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and other social media platforms is blocked for children under 16-years-old under a nation-wide law impacting more than one million youngsters. If Australia bans social media, will AI be next?
Safeguarding and Overstepping? Australia's Social Media Ban for Under 16s. Australian Human Rights Institute (2025).
Australia Wants to Bar Children from Social Media. Can It Succeed? Victoria Kim. Boston Sunday Globe, A3 (July 6, 2025).
United States
What is California's AI Safety Law? Brookings (December 23, 2025).
SB 53 "The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act" is intended to transform the patchwork of self-regulation into a statutory system with concrete duties and penalties for violations related to future developments by the largest AI producers.
Why Trump's AI Executive Order Could Crumble in Court. Axios (December 19, 2025).
Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence. Presidential Executive Order (December 11, 2025). This order seeks to establish one national federal framework for AI development along with penalties for states that enact their own policies regulating AI growth.
America's AI Action Plan (July 2025).
Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth. Presidential Executive Order (April 2025).
AI in Education Executive Order: What You Need to Know. Tech & Learning (May 19, 2025).
Hardman, P. (2025, September 4). Does GenAI Actually Improve Instructional Design Quality? New peer-reviewed research shows when AI enhances our work —and when it falls short. Dr. Phil's Newsletter.
Trust, T. Maloy, R.W., Xu, C., & Pelletier, K. (2025). Civic education in the age of AI: Should we trust AI-generated lesson plans? Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education.
Chen, B., Cheng, J., Wang, C., & Leung, V. (2025). Pedagogical biases in AI-powered educational tools: The case of lesson plan generators. Social Innovations Journal, 30(2).
Bailey Wilson, K., Gay, K., Barth, D., Chelf, C., Ford, C. & Zone, E. (2025). Student engagement and AI: Research overview and findings. The Online Learning Consortium.
AI is More Persuasive Than People in Online Debates. Nature Human Behavior (May 19, 2025).
Jones, C. R., & Bergen, B. K. (2025). Large language models pass the turing test. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23674.
Dell'Acqua, Fabrizio and Ayoubi, Charles and Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila and Sadun, Raffaella and Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach and Han, Yi and Goldman, Jeff and Nair, Hari and Taub, Stew and Lakhani, & Karim R.. (2025). The cybernetic teammate: A field experiment on generative AI reshaping teamwork and expertise. Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 25-043, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt.
Yell, M.M. (2023, May/June). Social studies, ChatGPT, and lateral reading. Social Education, 87(3), 138-141.
Cao, L. & Dede, C. (2023). Navigating a World of Generative AI: Suggestions for Educators. Harvard Graduate School of Education.
AI in Schools and Society
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. Karen Hao. Penquin Press. 2025.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to A.I. Yuval Noah Harari. Random House, 2025.
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language. Adam Aleksik. Knopf, 2025.
AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence, Gary Rivlin, Harper Business, 2025.
These Strange New Minds: How A.I. Learned to Talk and What It Means. Christopher Summerfield, Viking, 2025.
How to Teach AI: Weaving Strategies and Activities into any Content Area, Rachelle Dene Poth, ISTE, 2024.
More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI, John Warner, Basic Books, 2024.
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Ethan Mollick, Portfolio, 2024.
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI’s Future and Save Our Own, Verity Harding, Princeton University Press, 2024.
Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines, Sarah A. Bell, MIT, 2024.
Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, Jose Antonio Brown, Johns Hopkins Press, 2024.
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. Chris Miller. Scribner, 2022.
Even more: 9 Suggestions For Your AI Reading List.
Civics Education
Teaching Trump: Critical Issues in History and Civics Education. Fritz Fischer. Routledge, 2026
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, Richard Haass, Penguin, 2024.
Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom. Nicole Mirra & Antero Garcia, W.W. Norton, 2023.
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. Erica Chenoweth. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Verified: How to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online. Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg. University of Chicago Press 2023.
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited about Doing History. James W. Loewen. Teachers College Press, 2018.