The AI Educator BrAIn

This month: the internet confidently roasted a real Monet painting thinking it was AI (nobody Googled it), Elon lost a $134 billion lawsuit in less time than a school lunch period, 10% of teens say almost all their schoolwork is AI, Google announced you can now deepfake yourself from your phone, AI can predict brain decline from your speech patterns, and someone hacked Canvas during finals week at...

If your job can be described with a template, a machine is coming for it. Christopher Penn is back with Kelly Booz and Sari Beth Rosenberg for a conversation about what career readiness actually looks like in 2026 — and the answer is not what most schools are teaching. Chris walks through Stanford's latest data on AI adoption in schools worldwide (spoiler: Indonesia is at 95%), shows which job fie...

It's our two-year birthday and we're celebrating the only way we know how — by spiraling into AI chaos. Kelly Booz and Sari Beth Rosenberg are joined by returning favorite Christopher Penn for a deep dive into Google's NotebookLM, the tool that lets you upload your own data and turn it into slide decks, podcasts, videos, quizzes, flashcards, and infographics in 82 languages. Chris demos the whole...

This month: Disney's Olaf robot face-plants on day one, ChatGPT starts showing ads (remember when Sam Altman called that "uniquely upsetting"?), Boston tells high schoolers they need AI skills to graduate, a fourth grader's school AI draws something VERY inappropriate, New York City tries to open an AI high school before it's even approved, and Anthropic builds a model so good at hacking they won'...

Introducing the AI Educator Brain Podcast Kelly Booz and Sari Beth Rosenberg introduce the AI Educator Brain podcast, a monthly show about AI in education for educators navigating new tools, hype, policy, and guardrails. The hosts talk with experts, test AI tools, and present an SNL Weekend Update-style AI news spoof called the AI Educator News Update. The podcast is built from their live AI Educa...