Experts: The impact of AI on education 

Published: 8 May 2024

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools are changing the way students learn, from grade school to grad school. On April 25, the Higher Council of Education, jointly with the Commission on Ethics in...

What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

Published: 6 December 2022

AI can help identify biases in news reporting that we wouldn't otherwise see. Researchers from McGill University got a computer program to generate news coverage of COVID-19 using headlines from...

AI that can learn patterns of human language

Published: 12 October 2022

Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way humans do. But...

Is AI good or bad for the climate? It’s complicated

Published: 28 June 2022

As the world fights climate change, will the increasingly widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) be a help or a hindrance? In a paper published this week in Nature Climate Change, a team of...

Using AI to predict suicidal behaviours in students

Published: 28 July 2021

How can we predict suicide risk in students, especially at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many people’s mental health? According to researchers from Montreal and France,...

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