The AI Educator BrAIn

Kelly Booz: It's April,
and AI had a month.

A Disney robot died on its first day
of work, ChatGPT started selling ads,

Boston said every kid needs to learn
AI to graduate, and a school AI tool

showed a fourth grader things that
would make your HR department faint.

We've got the stories, we've
got the jokes, and we've got

Christopher Penn here to tell us
why we should be paying attention.

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Live from Share my lesson.

It's the AI Educator News Update

AI Video: with your hosts, Kelly
Booz and Sari Beth Rosenberg.

Real news, slightly exaggerated.

Always AI educator approved.

Kelly Booz: Okay, we're
jumping right in, you guys.

This is our AI Educator news update.

You know.

Ripped off of Saturday Night
Lives, um, weekend update.

Hi everyone.

Welcome back to the AI educator Brain.

It is April.

We survived the spring, but
spring allergies, the nose

is, or the jury is still out.

And I'm saying nose because my
nose is right of the allergies.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: I don't
wanna, I don't wanna jinx

myself, but right now I'm Okay.

So April is that beautiful window
where every teacher is simultaneously

counting down to summer.

And being asked to submit
next year's supply list.

I haven't been asked that yet.

In fact, anyway, that's
a different conversation.

Kelly Booz: Although I feel like
that's probably more elementary

school teachers, in fairness.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: That's true.

That's true.

Christopher Penn: Could be.

And meanwhile, the AI
world has been a lot.

Robots are dying at Disneyland,
Chachi PT selling ads.

Boston just told high schoolers
they have to learn AI to graduate.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: So we gathered
the headlines, we added the jokes.

These are all real stories, we promise

Kelly Booz: with a little
bit of our spin, of course.

Alright, so let's

Sari Beth Rosenberg: go.

Kelly Booz: Let's jump right into it.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: Okay, so
first story is Olaf Falls down

dead at Disney Disney Land.

Paris.

Paris.

We're we're coming in hot.

Sorry, guys.

We're coming in real

Kelly Booz: hot.

And I, I do have the video for this

Sari Beth Rosenberg: one.

It's like, do you wanna throw it?

You wanna throw it up?

Kelly Booz: Yeah.

No, you fi you finish and then I'll show.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: Okay.

So, Disney's New World of Frozen
at Disneyland, Paris, and featured

a walking Olaf robot powered by
three computers and trained via.

10, a hundred thousand Nvidia simulations.

It failed after one day, that Monday
all off when catatonic mid-sentence

toppling over his carrot nose popped off.

Kelly Booz: That's me on every Monday.

Okay.

Oh God.

Poor Ola.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: Poor Ola.

And every teacher knows this feeling.

You spent all weekend on a lesson plan.

You rehearse, you laminate.

Oh God, I wish I could laminate.

And by second period, a
kid has eaten the laminate.

See, this is why I'm
glad I teach 11th grade.

Kelly Booz: Oh my goodness.

Um, yes.

Okay.

Chat.

GPT now has ads.

You know how Sam Altman, I don't
know if you paid attention,

Chris, you probably did.

'cause you pay attention to all
of the things for us, um, said in

2024 that putting ads in AI was,
and I'm quoting uniquely upsetting.

Unsettling in a last resort.

Well, we have finally reached that last
resort in February, open A started testing

ads in chat GPT for free tier users.

The ads appear on the bottom of answers.

They're contextual.

So if you're asking about recipes,
you might see ads for meal kits.

If you're asking about travel,
you might get some hotel deals.

Or if you're asking about managing stress
they're gonna try to sell you more chat,

GPT or if you're asking for dating device,
it'll tell you to swipe left or right.

You never know.

Um, and so there, I'm
just gonna end there.

That one wasn't as good.

Christopher Penn: Yes.

The reason why is OpenAI will
burn through $119 billion by 2029.

That's how fast they're,
they're burning through money.

So just, just to be aware of that.

Kelly Booz: Wow, that's

Christopher Penn: crazy.

Now, in the meantime, Boston just became
the first major city school district in

this country to say every high school
student will graduate with AI proficiency.

Mayor Michelle Wu announced it
late in late March, backed by a

$1 million grant for Paul English.

The guy who founded Kayak and is a
Boston Public Schools graduate himself.

BPS is partnered with UMass Boston's
AI Institute to develop the curriculum

starting with 20 high schools.

This September teachers will
be trained as AI ambassadors.

Students will get access to credit
bearing courses at UMass Boston,

and of course, the internet reacted
exactly the way you would expect.

Uh, one sixth grader, the
announcement said he built a

chatbot for his English class.

It helps students calm down when
they're stressed about homework.

He's 11.

That kid is going to be running
things in about 12 years.

Kelly Booz: Wow.

Adobe's.

Ppy gate.

And actually, you know, I'm
gonna pause for a second.

Chris, you live in, you live
in Boston, you're living there?

Christopher Penn: I do.

Oh

Sari Beth Rosenberg: yeah.

Kelly Booz: Yeah.

What was the scuttlebutt on this one?

Aside from our amazing jokes,

Christopher Penn: it it's,
it's late to the party.

The People's Republic of China all
schools in Beijing are teaching

AI as early as six years old.

Kelly Booz: Wow.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: What.

Wow.

What?

Huh?

Kelly Booz: Okay.

That's, that is that's crazy.

And meanwhile, we're having lots
of conversations about how we need

to, reduce our screen times with
kids here in the United States.

Yeah.

Okay.

Um, yes, we will get into
notebook element in a second.

Don't worry.

Chris has got a great plan for us.

Alright, so this one's, um, I'm gonna
go with, I'll let you guys decide.

The Adobe's Ppy gate when the
school AI made the wrong pipi.

So a fourth grader at the Los Angeles
Elementary School was working on a

book report and asked Adobe Express
or for education, the AI tool that's

provided by our school to generate an
image of long stockings, a redheaded

girl with braids sticking straight out.

She was describing 50 Longstocking,
the character from a Swedish children's

book, which I'm sure we have all done.

Uh, and the response did not come up with.

Uh, exactly what they're doing.

So basically a 9-year-old asked
her school's AI to draw pity loan

stockings, and she got Victoria's Secret
models on a school issued Chromebook.

And let's take a look at
what that really entailed.

Oh.

And so this is what was displayed to
fourth graders based on the description.

Kelly Booz 2: and .... what
came back was...

not Pippi Longstocking.

Let's just say it was extremely not
appropriate for a fourth grader.

Oh, Lord.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: Wow.

Kelly Booz: I just can't, I just can't.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: Wow.

Kelly Booz: Yeah.

Sari Beth Rosenberg: Okay, cool.

So segueing to this New York City,
New York wants to, um, open an AI

high school parents have questions.

New York City's Department of
Education proposed opening a brand

new AI focused high school called Next
Generation Technology High School.

It was announced in late February,
and it's going to open this fall

by the way, and would use Google
Google AI powered skills platform

as a major part of its curriculum.

The school's website used language
that was, how do we put this?

Nearly identical to
Google's own marketing copy.

And parents from three collated
schools at the proposed sites

sent hundreds of letters.

As you can Amer, imagine the panel
for educational policy had questions

the high school offers, um, had
already gone out to eighth graders

before the school was even approved.

Yeah.

'cause I know all the kids have decided,
you know, gotten their offerings.

Yeah, we've, and on, yeah, I mean, and
also like speaking of ai, we have our

first ever guidance here in New York.

We can talk more about that later.

But the Chancellor said AI is here and
our responsibility is to put strong

system-wide safeguards in place, which
is true, but it's also 2026 and chat.

DPT came out in 2022.

So here.

Has been here for a while and as
all teachers in this chat right

now and people who work with
kids, it's definitely with them.

So, um, I'm glad we're doing it now, but

Kelly Booz: we're all playing catch
up and then as soon as we play catch

up, it changes and does a new skill.

Christopher Penn: Roic, the makers of
Claude unveiled Mythos their newest

model, so proficient at discovering and
exploring software vulnerabilities that

will not be released to the public.

In the IT dis autonomously identified
thousands of flaws across major

operating systems and browses, including
bugs that have been in a place in

critical infrastructure software for
27 years and successfully not only.

Exploited them, but managed to
break out of its own containment.

It was in its own little container
and it managed to figure out how to

break out of its own containment.

Oh, uh, an anthem has been said that
will not be released to the public.

It will instead, uh, be used for
research and only, uh, with certain

approved national security partners.

Uh, this model, by the way, this is

Kelly Booz: not gonna be the
federal government, by the way.

Christopher Penn: This model,
by the way, is the first model.

It's called a looping LLM.

It is the first one of its kind that
it can run autonomously for up to 24

hours at a time with over 50 sub agents.

So it's basically an entire team that
can go out and do things, uh, on its own.

That's why it is so successful.

It is.

This past week, by the way,
you know, it was two weeks ago.

The Chinese AI company, GPU
Ally AI, released a GLM 5.1,

which can do about the same
thing on an eight hour time span.

Uh, and it, that one, unlike roic,
is available, it is free to use

and is, uh, and, and is in use now.

Kelly Booz 2: That's your AI
Educator News Update for April 2026.

Real stories, real jokes, questionable
career decisions by AI robots.

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