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Teachers across the country are facing a disturbing new threat. Four educators spoke with Wired about becoming targets of AI-generated deepfake content — sexualized images created without their consent. The cases reveal how poorly equipped schools, platforms, and legal systems are to protect adults, not just students, from this kind of abuse.
Shifting from a crisis of misuse to a question of understanding — researchers are wrestling with a deceptively simple puzzle: children learn language better than artificial intelligence, and nobody can fully explain why. After one hundred thousand years of human speech, large language models are the first non-human systems to hold a conversation fluently, yet a toddler still acquires language in ways that remain genuinely mysterious to science.
And looking outward — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is preparing to change what we know about the cosmos. Scientists expect it to identify as many as two hundred thousand new planets while shedding light on dark matter and dark energy, two forces that shape the universe yet remain largely invisible to us. It's the kind of mission that reminds us exploration is far from over.
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