Illustration: Midjourney and Nano Banana 2 Misinformation AI in the 2026 Election Campaign AI has become a central part of the modern election campaign. From humorous AI videos and chatbot recommendations to deepfakes and digital campaign assistants, the technology is changing the way voters encounter politics. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Newsletters This week's news: Are we measuring what matters? Exams are losing their value, a homework researcher wants to bring homework into the classroom, and debate is raging over what teachers should actually spend their time on. This week, it's about what AI reveals about the system we've built—and what we should be measuring instead. Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read
Leadership Tomorrow - Leading in the age of artificial intelligence A new issue of Leadership Tomorrow focusing on artificial intelligence as a leadership responsibility. Per Størup Lauridsen • 1 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Fear Drives Students' AI Use The EVA report has reignited the familiar debate about cheating. But the key finding is about fear. Fear creates a culture where students go underground instead of being equipped to navigate the technology. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
AI reports New EVA report: Nine out of ten use AI. Two-thirds have cheated. And we hardly teach them about it. A new report from the Danish Evaluation Institute presents the most detailed picture to date of high school students' AI use. The numbers are unequivocal, and they should have consequences. Per Størup Lauridsen • 6 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's news: Should AI replace or support? Should AI replace or support? In the U.S., the teacher is being removed. In Estonia, the focus is on pedagogy. Also read about autonomous AI agents, the EPX debate, and why we're still asking the wrong questions about learning. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney AI agents OpenClaw: When AI agents act on their own AI agents are no longer science fiction. With OpenClaw, we've gotten a glimpse into a future where AI not only answers questions, but acts autonomously on our behalf. In this article, I review the technology and the questions we in the education sector should already be asking. Per Størup Lauridsen • 15 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: When the Struggle Disappears AI is already in classrooms, but when students can get answers to everything with one click, what happens to learning? This week's news suggests that the guardrails are missing, and the struggle is disappearing. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Does AI Make Students Smarter or Dumber? Two major reports warn that AI in schools may harm students' cognitive development. In Denmark, SkoleGPT is criticized for being unreliable. But the solution lies neither in bans nor in the pursuit of perfect machines. It lies in pedagogy and in human interaction. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
10 Things You Should Know About Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Thomas Telving shows how philosophy can be used to understand and discuss the ethical and human questions that AI raises. Per Størup Lauridsen • 1 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: Who's in Charge of AI in Education? We can't buy our way out of responsibility. While the U.S. is betting on error-prone detectors and STIL is tightening data rules, we're at a crossroads. The solution isn't new software, but reinventing pedagogy. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This week's newsletter: Is AI cheating a symptom of a broken system? High school students are using AI to cheat, but is it a sign of laziness or of an education system with misaligned priorities? The first newsletter of the year takes a close look at how we should use AI in teaching, and why the focus should be on learning rather than control. Per Størup Lauridsen • 15 min read
Illustration: ChatGPT Leadership New mini-guide to help schools use AI legally A new mini-guide from STIL makes it easier for schools to assess whether an AI solution is legal. Per Størup Lauridsen • 2 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week’s News: The Battle for the Human Element What do we lose when we strip away the awkward? In the final newsletter of the year, we take a close look at the battle for the human element in an era of virtual teachers, effective chatbots, and warnings from Anders Søgaard. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week’s News: Pen, Paper and Expulsions The education sector is under pressure. In Sweden, hundreds of students have been expelled for AI cheating. In Denmark, one in five examiners report problems with AI in assignments, and several universities have scrapped take-home exams in favor of pen and paper. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: The Educational Car Crash Do we lose the ability to think when AI writes for us? This week we spotlight Thomas Telving’s op-ed in Politiken on cognitive offloading, chatbots creeping into public primary schools, and new figures from the University of Copenhagen that show an overwhelming need for AI education. Per Størup Lauridsen • 12 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Newsletters This Week’s News: Human writing is more important than ever More than half of all content on the internet is now written by AI. That makes human authenticity more important than ever. Read this week’s newsletter about the tech giants’ power, the future job market, and why we must insist on what machines can’t do—being real human beings. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Illustration: Midjourney Education policy New TALIS Report: How Teachers Use Artificial Intelligence A new TALIS report provides insight into the use of artificial intelligence in primary and lower secondary schools and in upper secondary education, and points to an urgent need for professional development. Per Størup Lauridsen • 3 min read
Newsletters This week's news: When the chatbot lies to your students New reports reveal that schoolchildren as young as 6 have unrestricted access to AI that hallucinates, while Norwegian teachers warn that the exam system is collapsing. Read about the consequences and the educational solutions here. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Photo: Midjourney Newsletters This Week's News: When AI Creates More Bureaucracy New trends from the United States show AI being used to draft complaints that take extensive resources to handle. At the same time, three educators argue that exam rules need an overhaul and that we should make room for trust rather than control. Per Størup Lauridsen • 7 min read
Artificial intelligence The Huxley–Gödel Machine: When AI Learns to Learn and Challenges How We Teach Researchers at KAUST have unveiled a new kind of AI that can rewrite and improve its own code. Called the Huxley–Gödel Machine, it represents a pivotal step toward a form of intelligence that not only learns, but learns how to learn. Per Størup Lauridsen • 11 min read
Newsletters This Week's News: The Digital Book Burning Has Begun This week we write about a new, shocking article that reveals how AI is being used for a so-called 'digital book burning' in the US, and Danish educators warn that AI is creating deep social inequality in Denmark. Per Størup Lauridsen • 8 min read
Newsletters This Week's News: From AI Hype to Fabricated Sources ChatGPT invents sources and proposes school closures in Norway. Elon Musk has launched a so-called encyclopedia full of propaganda. Even so, engineers are thrilled with their new AI coworker, and now Danish researchers aim to find out whether AI help makes us smarter or dumber. Per Størup Lauridsen • 13 min read
Newsletters This week's news: When AI removes friction, what do we lose? From AI that grades incorrectly to AI that bullies children. This week's news shows why schools must take the lead. Get an overview of new regulations, tools, and ethical dilemmas. Per Størup Lauridsen • 14 min read
Artificial Intelligence in Danish In Artificial Intelligence in Danish, Jeppe Bundsgaard shows how Danish language classes can engage with AI critically and creatively — with concrete activities for the classroom. Per Størup Lauridsen • 1 min read
Newsletters This Week's News: Are We Teaching Our Young People to Prefer a Robot? While Danish schools adopt safe AI tutors, new research warns that students are increasingly using the technology as a digital friend or romantic partner. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Newsletters This Week's News: From an AI Driver's License to the Battle for Knowledge This week's news covers a new AI Driver's License for educators, a Norwegian municipality caught in a ChatGPT scandal, and the risk of sponsored knowledge in future language models. Per Størup Lauridsen • 9 min read
Newsletters This Week's News: Should AI Be Brought Out of the Shadows? Shadow AI is growing while the system hesitates. This week, we explore how to move from bans and uncertainty to a safe, pedagogically sound path forward for AI in education. Per Størup Lauridsen • 10 min read
Shadow AI Shadow AI: The IT Challenge No One Talks About Without the IT department's knowledge, sensitive data is being entered every day into AI tools like ChatGPT. The phenomenon is called Shadow AI, and it's one of the fastest-growing and most overlooked threats to data security today. Per Størup Lauridsen • 8 min read
Newsletters This week’s news: Are we educating a generation to settle for 'approximate knowledge'? As AI use in education rises sharply, researchers warn about the risk of superficial learning. Read about the critical balance between the technology’s potential and the need for deep understanding, and why 70 percent of teachers still lack experience with AI. Per Størup Lauridsen • 14 min read
