Diversos indicadores mostram que os adultos também estão dedicando menos tempo à leitura, especialmente por prazer. Alguns exemplos:

Um amplo estudo sobre uso do tempo, com base em diários de mais de 236 mil americanos, revelou que a proporção de adultos que leem por prazer em um dia comum caiu de cerca de 28% em 2003 para apenas 16% em 2023 — uma queda de aproximadamente 40% em duas décadas.

Pare de usar telas uma hora antes de dormir, tanto para reduzir a exposição à luz azul quanto para desacelerar mentalmente.

Sem amarras corporativas, empreendedores solo adotam IA mais rápido, ganham produtividade e criam novos produtos e fontes de renda

In podcast, teachers talk about how they’re using technology to supercharge critical thinking rather than replace it 

How AI‑powered “smart home” technologies could improve safety and ease caregiver burden for people with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia

Uma avaliação piloto de alfabetização climática da OCDE no Pará, Brasil, demonstra como os sistemas educacionais são um ator chave para promover resiliência frente a desastres naturais e demonstrar a importância das práticas sustentávei.

Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.

Parents and mental health experts are increasingly concerned that excessive screen time may harm students. And as policymakers move to impose new limits on the amount of time children spend looking at screens, they’re often lumping classroom ed-tech tools together with social media and other consumer-focused products, leaving education companies caught in the crossfire.
Advocates for education technology say a differentiation has to be made between products that are used for student learning and other entertainment apps.

Cientistas treinaram modelo de IA para examinar 2,6 milhões de textos publicados de 1999 a 2024
10% deles reúnem semelhanças com textos feitos por fábricas, segundo novo estudo

Anne Case and Angus Deaton coined the term “deaths of despair” for deaths related to suicide, drug use, and alcohol poisoning in their influential 2015 paper. They argued that such deaths often share a context of hopelessness and indifference toward living. Deaths of despair have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades, and especially so for white men and women without a college degree. Recent trends have in fact been so severe that they led to reduced life expectancies in the United States for three consecutive years, in 2015, 2016, and 2017. This is the longest consecutive decline since World War I. Our recent paper at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, just published this month in JAMA Psychiatry, which also ran a podcast, explores the potential protective power of religious community in preventing such deaths of despair.

Ashland, Ohio, is a small rural city where Akron Children’s Hospital has one of its 46 pediatric clinics. Last winter, I met Kristin Seveigny, the clinic’s mental-health therapist, in her office there. The hospital hired her two years earlier, at a time when the pandemic had exacerbated a nationwide crisis in adolescent mental health. From 2007 to 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide deaths among 10-to-24-year-olds increased more than 60 percent. In 2023, the agency reported that 40 percent of high schoolers felt persistently sad or hopeless; one in five had serious thoughts of suicide, and one in 10 had attempted it. Currently, the agency estimates that nearly one in five children in the United States ages 3 to 17 has at some point been diagnosed with a mental- or behavioral-health condition. Among adolescents, one in five reports having unmet health care needs.

Responsável pela segurança e alinhamento da Anthropic, pesquisadora explica como a IA aprende ética, bom senso e limites — sem virar paternalista

A iniciativa é coordenada pela Secretaria Nacional de Inclusão Socioeconômica do MDS e o objetivo é dar apoio, autonomia econômica e contribuir para a geração de renda, especialmente para pessoas que estão em situação de vulnerabilidade social. A ideia reforça a proposta do programa Acredita, que prevê ações de capacitação para estimular a inclusão produtiva. 

Para o secretário nacional de Inclusão Socioeconômica do MDS, Luiz Carlos Everton, o portal complementa as capacitações que o Programa Acredita já oferece, além de ampliar e facilitar o acesso a conteúdos fundamentais para empreendedores.  “É esse conjunto de ações que está mudando o perfil dos nossos, do Cadastro Único. A prova disso é que, no ano passado, 98% do saldo positivo do Cadastro Geral de Empregados e Desempregados (CAGED) foi de pessoas inscritas no Cadastro Único, o que mostra que essa política está funcionando”, destacou.

Veteran teacher Jen Roberts explains why generative tools are more than just a platform for cheating—they’re a way to make classrooms fairer and more human

Her findings suggest the hype around AI literacy often outpaces real investment in workers, while placing the burden on individuals — especially Black workers — to constantly prove they’re “ready” for an AI-driven future.

Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”

The point is to move the default from “engage at all costs” to “first, try to do no harm.” This means addressing people’s needs not only in clinics but in their chat logs — and doing so with design that respects people’s vulnerability and with policies that rise to meet it.

Sem regulação efetiva das plataformas, o design persuasivo dificulta a mediação parental e impacta o desenvolvimento infantil

Ora, é fácil imaginar onde terminaria a confluência entre um autoritarismo tecnológico, assistido por vigilância e planejamento em IA, e uma esperança de vida drasticamente aumentada para quem tivesse o poder ou dinheiro de ter acesso a ela: num totalitarismo tecnológico prolongado.
Da mesma forma, a inteligência artificial pode ajudar na formulação de deliberações democráticas que nos permitam ter uma democracia de mais alta intensidade e escolha com menos dificuldade para os cidadãos. Tudo depende de que líderes sejam mais persuasivos e de quais narrativas.