Florida Attorney General (AG) James Uthmeier said Thursday that his office is launching an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool, citing national security concerns and alleged use of the chatbot in a recent mass shooting.  

Massachusetts state officials said they are putting a ChatGPT-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tool into the hands of nearly 40,000 state employees who work within the government’s executive branch.

Users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now use certain apps that run inside ChatGPT, including Coursera for education use cases, the artificial intelligence company said on Monday, explaining that users can bring course content into a live conversation. 

The Torrance Unified School District (TUSD), in Los Angeles County, Calif., is in the final stages of formally adopting new guidelines and policies that will allow for the integration of AI tech into classrooms.

Arizona State University (ASU) announced a new partnership with OpenAI – the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT – that will enable faculty and staff to explore the potential of generative AI to enhance teaching, learning, and discovery, while also ensuring increased levels of privacy and security.

The University of Kentucky (UK) has formed a broad-based committee to examine the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and tools such as ChatGPT both for the university and for the state at large.

A new study found that students have increasingly chosen to study with ChatGPT instead of a human tutor, many citing that the AI tool was a more effective studying tool than a tutor.

Teachers are using OpenAI’s ChatGPT more frequently than their students, according to a new survey from the Walton Family Foundation. The survey found teachers are using ChatGPT for lesson planning and to generate creative ideas for classes.

The deputy director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education said last week that her team will be releasing the first Federal report on AI in education in the coming weeks.

With the rise of ChatGPT and other AI-driven writing services, educators now have a new tool to detect plagiarism.