Not what I expected.

https://www.bespacific.com/report-of-mits-ad-hoc-committee-on-ai-use-in-teaching-learning-and-research-training/

Report of MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

“MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee’s answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can’t replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they’re cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.” This report is a call to action…what we learned as a group quickly convinced us that the Institute community , particularly the faculty , must tackle a set of deeper questions about the structure, meaning, and value of an MIT education in an era in which AI is one of several factors complicating the Institute’s mission.  Our committee consisted of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty from every school, and staff from relevant units, including the MIT Libraries and the T eaching and Learning Lab. Though we brought to the assignment a broad range of experience and no fixed thesis, our brief but intense explorations led us to a strong shared view. In this report, we:

• Highlight key aspects of the current educational landscape at MIT

• Share eight principles we relied on and that we hope will guide the Institute in the work ahead

• Recommend immediate and long-term actions for both instructors and the administration.

As an institution deeply identified with the birth of AI and known for its distinctively rigorous, hands-on education, designed to produce graduates unafraid of the world’s hardest problems, MIT has a unique role to play in this moment. We believe it also has a responsibility to lead.  We hope our report can help the Institute lean into the spirit of Mind, Hand, and Heart as it continues to define and foster the highest-quality residential education – of humans, by humans, in support of human flourishing, and for the betterment of humankind…”

For your consideration...

https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/

Humanist AI Code of Conduct

This document outlines the intended behavior and values of MAI models, the models developed by Microsoft AI.

It summarizes our approach to training and operating them, following a set of design principles we call Humanist AI. This document, and our approach more generally, is still under development so we are not using it to train our models today. Instead, we’re sharing it broadly for public consultation.

Still no official domestic mission?

https://therecord.media/nsa-reorganization-five-mission-centers

Thorough reorganization at NSA will create five 'mission centers,' including cyber and AI

The National Security Agency is undertaking a fast and far-reaching reorganization in a bid to get the unique intelligence it gathers to real-world battlefields faster, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

In place of existing directorates, the largest electronic spy agency in the world will be recast into five “mission centers” devoted to China, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, combat support and global intelligence, these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Recorded Future News.

… However, some major details have yet to be worked out. For instance, while the elite hacking group known as Tailored Access Operations — which was originally created in the 1990s and was recently resurrected — is expected to be placed under global intelligence, it’s unclear what will happen to other NSA organizations that have cropped up in recent years, such as Cybersecurity Collaboration Center.

It is also hazy how the reorganization will change the NSA’s relationship with Cyber Command. The two entities share resources, and a campus, at Fort Meade, Maryland.