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Deep Think: What If AI Could Help Us Reclaim Our Attention Spans? | Ep. 94

From ChatEDU: The AI & Education Podcast · Hosted by Matt Mervis & Dr. Liz Radday

January 23, 2026·0:52:24

Episode summary

In this episode of ChatEDU: The AI & Education Podcast: In this episode of ChatEDU (Deep Think: What If AI Could Help Us Reclaim Our Attention Spans? ), Matt and Liz open with an AI slip-up at the National Weather Service that invented fake towns, raising trust and oversight concerns, before launching into a wide-ranging rundown. The Rundown The episode opens on health and AI: OpenAI is piloting a Health tab in ChatGPT, raising privacy and legal questions, while MIT Sloan research suggests personalized generative AI can aid…

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In this episode of ChatEDU (Deep Think: What If AI Could Help Us Reclaim Our Attention Spans?), Matt and Liz open with an AI slip-up at the National Weather Service that invented fake towns, raising trust and oversight concerns, before launching into a wide-ranging rundown. The Rundown The episode opens on health and AI: OpenAI is piloting a Health tab in ChatGPT, raising privacy and legal questions, while MIT Sloan research suggests personalized generative AI can aid weight loss, but lacks c...