After speaking with 500 AI experts, educators, and students in 50 countries, and reviewing relevant studies, researchers at the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education have reached a conclusion: AI in schools carries serious risks for students.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Jan 20 2026
AI SAVES, THEN RECLAIMS WORKERS’ TIME
AI is saving white-collar workers time, which they then use to check AI’s work and correct its mistakes, according to a study by Workday, a business services website.
AI WILL SAVE TIME ON HOUSEHOLD CHORES, OPENAI SAYS
Unpaid household tasks such as buying groceries or vacuuming the carpet represent a value equivalent to 15 percent of U.S. GDP, by some estimates.
CHINA IS WINNING THE GLOBAL AI RACE, MICROSOFT SAYS
Through the creation of low-priced open-source models subsidized lavishly by Beijing,
China is spreading its AI presence and technologies to more users faster than Western developers are, Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a Financial Times interview.
AI USES EVOLUTION’S HISTORY TO SEARCH FOR NEW MEDICAL TREATMENTS
Scientists from Microsoft and Nvidia are part of an international team that has created an AI system called Eden that tracks the evolutionary history of microbes using a database that has never been used publicly until now.




