AI for Educators Daily with Dan Fitzpatrick

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI, Claude Fable 5, compressed two months of human work into a single day for Stripe. This changes everything for AI in education. In this episode: Anthropic's new Mythos-class AI, Claude Fable 5, achieved a 50-million-line codebase migration for Stripe in one day, a task estimated to take humans two months, signifying a major leap for AI in...

Send us Fan Mail The world's first AI-designed vaccine, whose active ingredient was conceived by machine learning, just passed its initial human safety tests. In this episode: The world's first AI-designed vaccine, developed by the University of Cambridge and DIOSynVax, successfully completed initial human safety trials. This AI in vaccine development focuses on creating "super anti...

Send us Fan Mail An AI tutor helped students get right answers but not grasp core concepts, highlighting how AI in schools can silence productive struggle and deeper learning. In this episode: An observation of seventh-grade math students showed AI tutors in schools can help students get right answers without truly understanding core concepts like fractions, raising concerns about AI for deeper le...

Send us Fan Mail Only four in ten teenagers believe using AI for all homework is cheating, revealing a massive grey area for student perspectives AI. In this episode: A study by Oxford University Press reveals only 44% of students believe using AI for all homework is cheating, highlighting complex student perspectives AI. Despite varied views on AI cheating homework, 72% of students prefer not to...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a new essay by Dario Amodei, the founder of Anthropic, the company behind Claude, which is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful AIs we have in the world right now. - Because in many ways, we're the Hobbits, sometimes, trying to rouse our own Treebeard. - Now, those are global, existential threats, and it might feel a bit dramatic for...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a sentiment that echoes through so much of the current educational discourse: "Artificial intelligence in education is transforming classrooms." This phrase, this idea, you hear it everywhere, in articles, in webinars, in conversations in the staffroom. - The real value, the real transformation, comes when we are intentional about *how...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a really striking piece of reporting from NPR, by Lee V. - What we’re seeing, and what teachers are intuiting, is that AI fundamentally alters how we process information, how we create, how we learn, and how we assess. - Before, they'd spend hours sifting through websites, trying to summarise and synthesise information. - Teac...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a headline from the Financial Times that really caught my eye. - It’s because they’re struggling to use AI as a tool to *augment* their own capabilities, to make their human work better, faster, and more insightful. - So, what does this look like in a concrete educational setting? - Maybe it’s using AI to differentiate learning mat...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring an article I wrote for Forbes this week, simply titled "Prompt Engineering Isn't Dead, But The Caricature Is." It's a piece where I tried to cut through some of the noise about a topic that's often talked about, but rarely deeply understood. - Early systems, when they first came out, rewarded a kind of incantation. - We&...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * Instead of banning AI, leverage it by redesigning assignments, such as coding an adventure game and then using AI to expand its narrative, focusing on student interaction with the tool. * Shift from simply using AI to critically evaluating its outputs; focus professional development on understanding AI's limitations, biases, and ethical implications...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights * Over-reliance on AI can subtly erode an educator's judgment and authenticity, leading to moments of self-doubt even for seasoned professionals who *know* their material is good. * Generative AI's confident fluency can lead students (and educators) to project human intent and authority onto it, making them susceptible to "persuasion-bombing" and out...

Send us Fan Mail Flat-rate AI plans are ending, forcing educators to rethink usage as AI companies become profitable. This shift in EdTech pricing will significantly impact school budgets and classroom practice. Highlights - Today we are exploring a fascinating analysis of the sheer pace of AI acceleration we’ve seen in just one week, drawing from a recent expert commentary that really captures th...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a really fascinating piece from Vatican News, an article by Isabella Piro, reporting on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, a document called ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence’. - It’s not just about integrating a new tool; it's about fundamentally rethinking how we prep...

Send us Fan Mail Highlights - Today we are exploring a really impactful piece from Natasha Singer in The New York Times, published just recently on May 27th, 2026. - Now, as I read this, my mind immediately jumps to a few places. - If AI allows students to simply bypass the thinking, the productive struggle that leads to real learning, then we have a problem. - For those grades, screens might genu...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * Resist AI's convenience to preserve the productive struggle essential for building intelligence and character, as argued by Wendy Liu. * Embrace the painstaking process of learning crafts like coding or writing, recognizing that the journey itself, not just the output, transforms understanding. * Be wary of AI "deskilling" complex creative...

Send us Fan Mail Students automatically reaching for AI before thinking is the real education problem, not cheating. This passivity erodes deep student learning and critical classroom practice Find out more Highlights - Today we are exploring a really insightful piece from Forbes, written by John Koetsier, a senior contributor there. - It’s about understanding the underlying mechanics, not just pa...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * A University of Cambridge study found that top AI models like Claude and ChatGPT matched human degree classifications only about 50% of the time when grading university essays. * AI consistently undervalued top-tier work and overvalued lowest-ranked essays, exhibiting a "central tendency bias" by assigning middling marks to most submissions. *...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - What the study essentially found is that there’s widespread fear about AI's impact on jobs, and a significant belief that our education system just isn't keeping pace. - The study found that over half the public, fifty-six percent, and even nearly sixty percent of employers, agree with the prediction that AI could eliminate half of these roles...

Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights - It's a fascinating look at where the rubber is really meeting the road. - It’s an example of enhancement, not replacement, allowing students to access personalized support that might otherwise be unavailable. - The authors then pivot to a study conducted in Northern Italy, which focused on the impact on educators. - And critically, they didn't...

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Send us Fan Mail Live from the Shoreline Amphitheatre at Google I/O 2026, I sat down with Chris Phillips, VP & General Manager of Google for Education , minutes after Sundar Pichai's keynote to ask the questions teachers actually want answered. For two years, critics have argued the evidence base for AI in education was thin. This week, Google published the first major randomised control...

Send us Fan Mail A concise episode for educators on the environmental impact of AI versus other online habits, exploring what actually drives digital carbon footprints and what smarter sustainability conversations in schools should sound like.

Send us Fan Mail A podcast for educators on Microsoft’s Thailand AI-in-education push, exploring teacher time savings, student engagement, responsible AI use, and what large-scale skills programmes really mean for schools.

Send us Fan Mail A podcast for educators on Estonia’s national AI-in-schools strategy, exploring why it is training students to use generative AI, what guardrails matter, and what other systems might learn.

Send us Fan Mail A podcast for educators on why Google I/O matters far beyond model benchmarks, focusing on agentic AI, school devices, smart glasses, Workspace changes, and NotebookLM’s growing classroom impact.