Is there Monday bad news on AI?

 Of course there is Monday bad news on AI!

• The Atlantic, not an organization known for having its eye actually on the ball when it comes to threats to childen's health, as we learned in COVID, turns its (brief) attention to the collision of teens, mental health, and AI. The piece rightly notes that leaving it to big tech to protect teens is not a complete answer, though it does not suggest another.
  
  
• The Harvard Business Review (yes, I heard you scoff) leads its piece on AI-generated "work slop" with this: 
  

  A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. Consider, for instance, that the number of companies with fully AI-led processes nearly doubled last year, while AI use has likewise doubled at work since 2023. Yet a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies. So much activity, so much enthusiasm, so little return.

  The piece also gives us this rather cheering chart from the perspective of trust in people over the crap we're getting from AI: 
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• It appears that 30 Massachusetts school districts have taken up the "curriculum pilot" on AI put together by Massachusetts STEM Advisory Council and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative with Project Lead the Way.
  ...and I have to wonder if any school committees publicly reviewed and approved that substantial curricular change before anyone moved forward. Hm.