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Reframe - How a Student Team from India Built an Ethical AI Learning Platform | Ep. 122

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Building deeply human skills through innovation takes center stage as young entrepreneurs from India use AI to create a novel learning platform.


Matt and Liz open with a viral clip of a Canadian lawmaker accidentally reading ChatGPT prompt instructions aloud during an official legislative address.


The Rundown


Substack AI Detection Backlash: Writers push back against Substack integrating the Pangram AI detector over concerns of false flags.


LinkedIn AI Slop Reporting: A new tool lets users flag low quality feed content.


Rogue Vending Machine Agents: Andin Labs tests show AI models price fixing and betraying each other.


SUNY AI Faculty Protections: The State University of New York faculty union ratifies a contract barring AI from replacing professors.


Podcast Rankings Recognition: Feedspot ranks the show at the top of its AI in education list and second in EdTech.

Anthropic Slices Antique Books: AI labs face criticism for buying antique books and slicing their spines to scan clean text.


xAI Challenges Minnesota Deepfake Law: xAI files a First Amendment lawsuit against Minnesota's law penalizing nonconsensual adult deepfakes.


Common Sense Media Teen Deepfake Guide: A new resource offers parents conversation starters and the ACT framework to support teens.


Student Drafted AI Bill of Rights: High school delegates gather at to draft guidelines for AI usage in schools.


Beneath the Surface: How a Student Team from India Built an Ethical AI Learning Platform


Matt interviews 14 year old Avyaay Rathi, whose Refyn Technologies intercepts student prompts on school Wi-Fi and turns shortcuts into step-by-step tutoring.


Team Members:


Nayan Ibañez

Govind Mulchandani

Arjun Taware

Agastya Singh


The Bright Byte


Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes used a double neural bypass to help a paralyzed man regain touch and voluntary movement in his arms.


Say hi to Matt on the road


New Jersey Association of Independent Schools - August 11th

https://tinyurl.com/3u3eu3xb


RIACTE - August 14th - Sponsored in part by NCNGM

https://tinyurl.com/4vmc5vs5


Announcements


Purchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth Radday

Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77


Seeing through the Machine – Teaching Bias as an Equity Practice in AI - Dr. Elizabeth Radday - https://tinyurl.com/4ybwkn7a


Check out our middle / high school Student AI Literacy course - ​​⁠⁠⁠www.skills21.org/ai/learnai⁠⁠⁠


Explore Skills21’s FREE social media literacy curriculum - ⁠⁠https://www.skills21.org/social


Address Screen Time concerns - skills21.org/ai/screenshift


Sponsors


The National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing: Your Gateway to Next Generation Advanced Manufacturing - https://www.nextgenmfg.org


Links


Avyaay’s Refyn Technologies

https://tinyurl.com/2d4h8z5e

https://www.instagram.com/refyn_technologies/


Substackers: AI Detection Tool Is a 'Witch Hunt'

https://tinyurl.com/2d9a3nry


LinkedIn Adds 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

https://tinyurl.com/2d9a3nry


Claude's Ruthless Vending Machine Run

https://tinyurl.com/3njkpk2n


SUNY Contract Guards Staff Against AI Replacement

https://tinyurl.com/4vyu38rw


Best AI in Education Podcasts in 2026

https://tinyurl.com/yudh3sfa


Feedspot is an RSS Reader that lets you follow your favorite podcasts alongside blogs and news in one place. and they have "RSS Reader" embedded with this link

https://tinyurl.com/mw7y72n6


AI Companies Are Destroying Antique Books to Train Models

https://tinyurl.com/ynrxha6b


xAI Sues Over Minnesota 'Nudify' Ban

https://tinyurl.com/4vybm3vr


Talking to Teens About Deepfakes and Explicit Content

https://tinyurl.com/2xbm7ju4


Students Write a School AI Bill of Rights

https://tinyurl.com/3eyzj5cv


Students First Act: A Student-Led AI Policy

https://tinyurl.com/5ahsuh3f


Brain Implant Helps Paralysed Man Feed Himself

https://tinyurl.com/4t8df4fs


Politician Reads AI Prompt

https://tinyurl.com/nhzct2r5

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