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October 21, 2025
Stay current (and entertained) with the AI Educator News Update, a teacher-led look at the funniest, weirdest, and most teachable AI headlines each week.
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If you’ve ever tried to keep up with the latest in artificial intelligence, you know it can feel like scrolling through a mix of science fiction, satire, and a staff meeting gone wrong. That’s why we’ve launched the AI Educator News Update, a quick, SNL Weekend Update-style segment in our AI Educator Brain series. Each month, we highlight the funniest, strangest, and very real headlines (with a little humorous spin) from the world of AI.
Real news. Slightly exaggerated. Always AI Educator approved.
Because let’s face it: AI is moving fast, and sometimes the only logical response is to laugh first, fact-check second … or maybe fact-check first and laugh second. You choose.
This quick segment turns real AI headlines into classroom conversation starters, helping teachers stay informed and laugh through the chaos.
Google’s new AI Overview told users to “eat one small rock per day.”
Health experts disagreed, but geologists said, “Finally, a balanced diet.”
A man got sick after following ChatGPT’s advice to replace table salt with sodium bromide,
which proves once again: ChatGPT can cook up anything … except common sense.
An Airbnb “superhost” used AI-edited photos to claim more than $16,000 in fake property damage.
Investigators said the photos looked real until they noticed the same background appeared on six different dating profiles.
The same kind of image manipulation that fuels fake rental claims is also common on dating apps. Experts say it’s the same formula: great lighting, no truth, and emotional damage.
Researchers discovered McDonald’s hiring chatbot protected millions of job applications with the password “123456.”
So yes, it’s fast food—and even faster identity theft.
Behind every ridiculous headline is a real lesson about AI, from digital literacy to data privacy to plain old common sense.
The “AI Educator News Update” helps us keep our sense of humor while staying grounded in what’s actually happening and how it affects educators, students, and the tech shaping our classrooms. Remember: Always fact-check before you panic-check.
Join the team from the AI Educator Brain, which includes AFT’s Share My Lesson director Kelly Booz; New York City Public Schools teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg and EdBrAIn, our AI teammate (yes, it named and designed itself!). In this community, we will dissect the pros and cons of AI tools in education. Our mission: to determine how AI can support teaching and learning, and when it might be best to stick with tried-and-true methods.
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