Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
AI engineers – Unlike traditional IT roles, people in this position will fix the AI when it breaks, digging through the layers to determine what went awry, why it went wrong and how to repair it. Like a plumber, they’ll snake the pipes to clear out the system and figure out how to avoid the problem next time. This will be particularly important when it comes to models that have been highly customized to an organization.
All of us are crazy in very particular ways. We’re distinctively neurotic, unbalanced and immature, but don’t know quite the details because no one ever encourages us too hard to find them out. An urgent, primary task of any lover is therefore to get a handle on the specific ways in which they are mad. They have to get up to speed on their individual neuroses. They have to grasp where these have come from, what they make them do – and most importantly, what sort of people either provoke or assuage them. A good partnership is not so much one between two healthy people (there aren’t many of these on the planet), it’s one between two demented people who have had the skill or luck to find a non-threatening conscious accommodation between their relative insanities.
The very idea that we might not be too difficult as people should set off alarm bells in any prospective partner. The question is just where the problems will lie: perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us, or we can only relax when we are working, or we’re a bit tricky around intimacy after sex, or we’ve never been so good at explaining what’s going on when we’re worried. It’s these sort of issues that – over decades – create catastrophes and that we therefore need to know about way ahead of time, in order to look out for people who are optimally designed to withstand them. A standard question on any early dinner date should be quite simply: ‘And how are you mad?’
How AI is Powering Modern Love – Axios
AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next – Wired
Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use? – New York Times
How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online – Washington Post
What if you're being manipulated? – Understandably
The right place for AI companions in mental health care – Stat News
They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real – New York Times
Character.AI to ban kids from talking to its chatbots – USA Today
AI for therapy? Some therapists are fine with it — and use it themselves. – Washington Post
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder- The Guardian
With therapy hard to get, people lean on AI for mental health. What are the risks? – NPR
Many teens are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional support – American Psychological Association
Somebody to love: should AI relationships stay taboo or will they become the intelligent choice? - The Guardian
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism
Next Time You Consult an A.I. Chatbot, Remember One Thing – New York Times
How chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers. – Osmarks
‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy - The Guardian
AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse – The Cut
People are starting to talk like ChatGPT - The Washington Post
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame – NBC News
People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners – Futurism
Teenage boys using ‘personalised’ AI for therapy and romance, survey finds – The Guardian
Test-time training (TTT) – Instead of being given truthful data to get an LLM model started in the right direction, TTTs learn by performing a task with the data. An alternative to transformers (which have high energy demands), TTTs only process more data faster, they can do so without consuming nearly as much computing power. Instead of growing as it processes data, like a transformer, it encodes the data into representations called weights. No matter how much data it processes, a TTT model won’t grow and become unwieldy.
"Some 60 percent of singles now say AI relationships are considered a form of cheating, according to two recent surveys. As chatbot romances become more commonplace, causing irreparable rifts in relationships, a new legal frontier is emerging in family law that is rewriting the rules of marital misconduct: An AI affair is now grounds for divorce." -Wired
It’s what people know about themselves inside is what makes them afraid. – Clint Eastwood in “High Plains Drifter”
Judge Horrified as Lawyers Submit Evidence in Court That Was Faked With AI - Futurism
How would-be authors were fooled by AI in suspected global publishing scam - The Guardian
Report finds some AI-enabled toys shared inappropriate content or collected data – NPR
AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life. - The Washington Post
An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse? - New York Times
AI is reinventing crime and cops aren't ready – Axios
AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine - Amy Chivavibul
Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying – Axios
How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’ - New York Times
It’s Easier to Cheat When You Can Blame AI – Wall Street Journal
A.I. is making death threats more realistic, enabling online harassers to generate images showing their victims in imagined violent situations. – New York Times
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun – The Guardian
Woman sent husband AI photos of intruder as a prank. He called 911. – Washington Post
As tech companies build A.I. data centers worldwide, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages. – New York Times
The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest - Wall Street Journal
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder – The Guardian
ChatGPT Is a Fictional Character What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author. – The Atlantic
The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World - New York Times
How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions – The Economist
ChatGPT’s new parental controls failed my test in minutes - The Washington Post
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism
AI can design toxic proteins. They’re escaping through biosecurity cracks. - The Washington Post
A stunning scientific accomplishment: Computers can now design new viruses that can then be created in the lab - The Washington Post
AI translator (trust director) – People who understand AI well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers, so that they can make effective decisions. These workers will not only explain what the AI output means (especially when it is technical) but also how trustworthy the information and conclusions are. This role may fall under that of a compliance officer, helping organizations understand contracts and reports written by AI.
We have this sense that there is an objective best, and in virtually no area of life is that true. It’s not even that, “Well, there’s the best for me, and then there’s the best for you.” It isn’t even clear that there is a best for me. There’s a whole set of things that are probably more or less equivalent.
If you have this mindset that says, “I have to get the best,” it’s so hard to figure out what that is that you end up looking in panic around you at what other people are choosing as a way to help you figure out what is the best. I think it’s partly because they are struggling to define the best, and they can’t do it on their own, so they’re madly checking out other people’s decisions as a way of figuring out what really is the best. It’s extremely destructive.
Barry Schwartz quoted in Vox
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? – Nature
Professors, students divided over AI technology in classrooms – EdSource
What Is Gen Z Supposed to Do When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs? - New York Magazine
Yonsei University plans public hearing amid AI-linked cheating scandal - The Korea Times
College students are panicking about AI. Here’s why they shouldn’t – Fast Company
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize. – New York Times
AI Is Teaching the Next Generation of M.B.A.s the Classic Case Study – Wall Street Journal
University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat - ABC News (Australia)
More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind – NPR
This school district asked students to draft its AI policy – Washington Post
AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges - Axios
AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails - Washington Post
AI Is Making the College Experience Lonelier – Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to ask sharper questions about AI in your kid's classroom - Axios
AI gives students more reasons to not read books. It’s hurting their literacy – Fast Company
10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Rapid Rise of AI in the Classroom – Plagiarism Today
College students are caught between 'AI gets you in trouble' and 'AI is the future' – Fast Company
My Students Use AI. So What? – The Atlantic
These Students Are Using AI to Visualize Their Reading Comprehension – Education Week
AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study – Wired
Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out – Ars Technica
Can AI keep students motivated, or does it do the opposite? – The Conversation
"Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees is cranking out 3,000 episodes a week of AI podcasts covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. It’s podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400.000 subscribers — so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts." -The Wrap
It's not about “being.” It’s about “becoming.”
Evaluating AI guidelines in leading family medicine journals: a cross-sectional study – BMC
Can a Research Agent Write Convincing but Unsound Papers that Fool LLM Reviewers? – arXiv
University of Hong Kong probes non-existent AI-generated references in paper; prof. says content not fabricated – Hong Kong Free Press
An Early Investigation Into In-Paper Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses for AI Reviewers - arXiv
AI ‘Godfather’ hits record 1 million citations on Google Scholar - Semafor
Large language models in peer review: challenges and opportunities – Springer
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers – 404 Media
Letters to scientific journals surge as ‘prolific debutante’ authors likely use AI – Science.org
From Language Barrier to AI Bias: The Non-Native Speaker’s Dilemma in Scientific Publishing – Scholarly Kitchen
Will AI + OA be OK? - Cabells
Why AI transparency is not enough - Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University
AI tools combat paper mill fraud in scientific publishing as peer review system struggles – Chemistry World
AI-powered fraud: Chinese paper mills are mass-producing fake academic research - South China Morning Post
AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference – Nature
Low-quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? – Nature
The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn – Chemistry World
How ChatGPT-5 redefines scientific reproducibility.” – Elephant in the Lab
AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Research commissioner appears to cite discredited study in AI speech – Science Business
AI in peer review: where to draw the line? – Research Professional News
MIT takes down article on an AI platform for churches -MIT Technology Review
Journal defends work with fake AI citations after Hong Kong university launches probe - South China Morning Post
AI consultants – This job involves helping businesses adopt and implement AI by offering a strategic roadmap, technical expertise, and project leadership. The AI consultant must facilitate communication between a company’s departments to marry technical knowledge with business needs. After the deployment of AI, it is their job to help set up ways to monitor the outcomes. Besides possessing a robust AI education, the AI consultant will have to stay on top of trends and changes in the industry.
Children not only need to hear our conclusions, but they also need to know the thought process that got us to those conclusions. They need context. Offering only orders and rules is not teaching.
It's hard work to articulate the why. Some parents hesitate out of fear. Perhaps they will discover our secret weaknesses or find flaws in our reasoning. Rather than hiding our imperfections, if we let them know we are fallible as they are, we share with them a common bond and an authentic honesty. Rather than just opening their heads and pouring in our truths, we can help them make the marvelous discovery that they have something to contribute to our lives as well. We are fellow strugglers, learning how to live right in a confusing and challenging world.
Stephen Goforth
What: How data journalism is being used as a tool to spotlight disaster preparedness and strengthen communication systems across the Caribbean.
Who: Desilon Daniels, Projects & Advocacy Coordinator, PMA; Eric Falt, Regional Director of UNESCO Caribbean; Keith Goddard, Communications & Public Relations Specialist at CDEMA; Hipolito Novelo, Digital Editor, Greater Belize Media.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Public Media Alliance
What: We’ll explore how AI co-reasoning tools can help us fact-check high-profile claims about youth, smartphones, and mental health - and how to bring those skills into conversations with students, parents, and communities.
Who: Wesley Fryer, PhD, is a middle school STEM and media literacy middle school teacher at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
What: We’ll explore how to: Apply best practices amidst rapid change; Measure trust as a vital metric for reputation and behavior; Prove ROI in smarter ways that align with the Barcelona Principles; If you’re a communicator looking to sharpen your measurement skills, future-proof your strategies, and plan effectively for the year ahead, this is a session you won’t want to miss.
Who: Angela Dwyer, VP of Insights at Fullintel and Director of the IPR Measurement Commission; Sarah Myles (McDonald’s), Jason Forget (Regeneron), and Sukhi Sahni (Advisor and Educator).
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Institute for Public Relations
What: A thought-provoking session on Solidarity Journalism — an approach that prioritizes the lived experiences of marginalized communities in the service of basic dignity.
Who: Anita Varma, a leading voice in ethical journalism and faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England Newspaper and Press Association
What: We will explore bold and innovative communications ideas from Africa to Colombia to New Zealand and beyond — showing how everything from soap to clowns can be communications vehicles for nonprofit and philanthropy comms professionals. How looking beyond our own borders is a useful but underutilized communications tool. How different countries are leveraging communications to advance equity in creative ways. How novel communication approaches and strategies can provoke interesting questions about tactics used to create social change.
Who: Karabi Acharya, RWJF Senior Director, Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions; Bob McKinnon Bob McKinnon, GALEWiLL Design, Founder.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Communications Network
What: Learn how to apply advanced capabilities—Deep Research, Projects, Data Analysis, Canvas, Connectors, and ChatGPT Agent—to move from one-off prompts to structured, repeatable workflows. These tools help government teams analyze data, streamline processes, and collaborate effectively while maintaining security and compliance.
Who: Bryan Petzold, AI Adoption Manager, OpenAI; David Sperry, AI Adoption Manager, OpenAI.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: Brian Noyes discusses his journey from illustrating stories to becoming a national baked goods phenomenon.
Who: Brian Noyes, Former art director of The Washington Post and Smithsonian magazines; Kaela Roeder, the lead DC and Virginia reporter at Technical.ly.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists, Washington Chapter
What: How AI is being used in forecasting extreme events, highlighting the technical challenges, advances in AI support decision-making, and opportunities to improve forecasting moving forward.
Who: Gabriele Messori (Uppsala University); Amy McGovern (University of Oklahoma); Jonathan Overpeck (University of Michigan).
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Vimeo
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Academies
What: The panel will share their experiences of reporting in exile, the challenges of staying connected to their home countries, and the role of journalism in defending democracy across borders.
Who: Luz Mely Reyes (Venezuela), Co-founder of Efecto Cocuyo, reporting on corruption and human rights from exile; Carlos Fernando Chamorro (Nicaragua), Founder of Confidencial, continuing his legacy of investigative journalism despite government persecution; César Castro Fagoaga (El Salvador), Co-founder of Revista Factum, navigating threats to press freedom in Central America.
When: 10:30 am
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
What: Get your nonprofit ready for 2026 with a smarter approach to website and marketing analytics. This session will help you understand how to track what matters most, set up dashboards that support your goals, and use data to drive smarter decisions. We'll also highlight how Tapp Network’s Website Services can support deeper analytics integration, ensuring your organization is equipped for the digital trends ahead.
Who: Julian Gerace, Tapp Network, Digital Solutions Manager; Zach Patton, Tapp Network, HubSpot Solutions Manager.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
What: This webinar will give journalists tools to tackle their industry’s stressors. Experts lead an experiential session on embodiment practices to help foster a greater sense of wellness.
Who: Kerwin Speight Faculty, Poynter; Aaron Glantz Journalist and Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter
What: In this essential workshop, discover the transformative power of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and how it redefines digital measurement for news organizations.
Who: Iain Christie, a Business Analyst for the Google News Initiative.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association
What: This session will explore the ‘Eight Pillars’ of Ethical AI Use and share best practices that prioritize reader trust, stakeholder confidence and alignment with industry standards.
Who: Kristina Meinig, Vice President, Market Development, Alliance for Audited Media; Katrina Eddy, Vice President, Technology Assurance, Alliance for Audited Media.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Local Media Association
What: Learn how to integrate AI into evidence synthesis and help researchers utilize AI tools more efficiently.Participants will come away with a clearer understanding of the role AI can play in evidence synthesis and better equipped to guide researchers in using AI tools effectively, efficiently, and responsibly.
Who: Sarah Young, Social Sciences Librarian and Director, Evidence Synthesis Program, Carnegie Mellon University; TJ Bozada, Product Lead, Sysrev.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Sysrev
What: This session uses a “prebunking” approach to teaching about misinformation: helping students recognize common traits and tactics of false and misleading claims. Explore five primary types of viral misinformation along with five factors students can use to evaluate posts they’re skeptical about. We also will practice key verification skills—like reverse image searching—and close by reflecting on how these concepts and skills can be applied in the classroom to foster careful, critical thinking, and a sense of responsibility for what students post and amplify online.
Who: Tracee Stanford, News Literacy Project.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $75 per school.
Sponsor: Independent Schools Association of the Central States.
What: We’ll hear directly from journalists working at the frontlines of press freedom and explore what their experiences reveal about resilience, responsibility, and the future of trustworthy media—both globally and here in Colorado.
Who: Gabriela Resto-Montero, Senior Director of Journalism at Rocky Mountain PBS; Patrick Boehler, journalist and media leader with experience at Radio Free Europe, The New York Times, and Gazzetta; Madison Karas, journalist and documentary storyteller whose work spans local and national newsrooms, including the Tiny News Collective.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Rocky Mountain PBS
What: Learn how emerging AI technologies, such as machine learning, natural language processing and agentic AI, are deployed to reshape the primary care landscape
Who: Jason Hill, MD, MMM, MS, Innovation Officer, Ochsner Health.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
What: This webinar offers simple digital communications guidance to help you maintain your online presence without breaking the bank or spending all your time creating content. You’ll leave with best practices and time-saving tips for websites, social media, and email.
Who: Meredith Brown, Meredith Lee Brown Communications, in partnership with Consultants for Good (C4G).
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
What: Consider your SME (subject matter experts) as your fellow human-in-the-loop and join us to explore best practices for using AI to help you work with your SMEs — not instead of them. We’ll share practical approaches from our work in developing medical case practice, assessment question generation, and other real-world learning contexts — highlighting how AI can accelerate L&D work while keeping SME collaboration authentic and productive.
Who: Megan Torrance, CEO and founder, TorranceLearning; Christopher King, Principal Consultant, CRK Learning.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenSesame
What: The discussion will explore: Where journalists should turn for the reliable, evidence-based reporting resources that formerly had a home at the CDC’s web pages. Who, if anyone, has taken over data collection and communication about infectious disease. What is missing, now, from the national public health picture. Their biggest worries about the potential consequences of the loss of this body of expertise and communication.
Who: Former CDC officials Deb Houry, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science; Demetre Daskalakis, former Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; and Daniel Jernigan, former Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Moderated by AHCJ Health Beat Leader Tara Haelle.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Association of Health Care Journalists
What: A deep dive into what 1481 writers told us about how they use AI.
Who: Gotham Ghostwriters CEO Dan Gerstein and writer/collaborator Josh Bernoff.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Josh Bernoff
What: We will demystify the entire editing journey, teach practical self-editing techniques, and guide you through the business of hiring professionals—from finding qualified editors and evaluating samples to understanding pricing and building productive working relationships.
Who: Jennifer Crosswhite, owner and CEO of Tandem Services.
When: 1:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Author Learning Center
What: Join experts as they discuss how colleges can meet new Department of Justice web-accessibility requirements affecting millions of pages across institutional websites, course materials, and PDF documents. Learn strategic approaches for meeting the 2026 compliance deadline.
Who: Alexander C. Kafka, Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Kristina England, Senior Digital Experience and Accessibility Specialist, University Information Technology Services, UMass Office of the President; Laura Rothstein, Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar Emerita, University of Louisville; Terrill Thompson Manager, Web Accessibility Team University of Washington.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
What: Artificial intelligence offers powerful tools for literature reviews, data analysis, and drafting—but raises important ethical considerations. This webinar will address responsible AI use (ChatGPT in particular) in academic work, including issues of bias, AI hallucination, authorship, and transparency. Attendees will learn practical ways to integrate AI while maintaining scholarly integrity.
Who: Harry Sun, a PhD student in Positive Developmental Psychology.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Claremont Graduate University
What: Join us for a copyright primer with tips (and warnings) about finding truly free material that’s safe to re-publish. We will also talk about what to do when you receive a bill from a copyright bot.
Who: Mike Hiestand, Student Press Law Center.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members
Sponsor: College Media Association
What: Our Disability Narrative Webinar Series initiative is designed to empower journalists, storytellers, and advocates with the tools to create accurate, inclusive and impactful narratives about disability. For this month’s event, we welcome journalist and disability advocate John Loeppky as he enlightens us on the topic of Leveling the Field: Coverage of Parasport.
Who: John Loeppky is a British-Canadian disabled freelance writer currently based on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism
What: We will explain the climate changes we’re experiencing today, how science interprets them and why communicators play a key role in delivering this message in an accessible and responsible way.
Who: John Morales, NBC 6 South Florida; Ana Bueno, Univision 45, Houston.
When: 6:30 pm
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members.
Sponsor: National Association of Hispanic Journalists
What: In this course, you'll learn how to harness the power of AI to produce compelling, ethical, and authentic content. We will explore what types of content to feed AI tools, effective prompting techniques to generate high-quality outputs, and strategies to eliminate AI fingerprints for more natural results. Whether you're a content creator, marketer, or writer, this course will equip you with the skills to collaborate ethically and confidently with AI to enhance your writing process.
Who: Cathy Fyock, The Business Book Strategist who works with professionals and thought leaders who want to write nonfiction books as a business growth strategy. She is the author of 12 books.
When: 1:30 pm
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Author Learning Center
What: We’ll share strategies on how to distinguish between law enforcement agencies, mitigating digital and on-the-ground threats, top tips for covering protests and ICE actions.
Who: Jeff Belzil, Security Director; Tat Bellamy-Walker, Program Coordinator.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
What: We will explore the emerging AI-mediated information ecosystem and its transformative potential for journalism. We’ll also share insights from a unique scenario-building exercise where AI agents themselves imagined the future of news, a project that used 1,000 AI-generated personas and 20 digital twins to produce a comprehensive report on journalism’s evolution. Discover how to fundamentally reimagine what journalism can become in the year ahead and beyond.
Who: Ezra Eeman, WAN-IFRA AI Expert; David Caswell, Founder, StoryFlow, UK.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
What: We will explore copyrightability and authorship of AI-assisted creative works that are increasingly used in writing as well as film, video, images and other formats.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Authors Alliance & OCEAN
What: Bring your copyright questions and puzzling situations! Copyright experts from Association of Southeastern Research Libraries libraries will be on hand to help sort through whatever is on your mind.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
A.I. suggestions “work covertly, sometimes very powerfully, to change not only what you write but what you think.” The result, over time, might be a shift in what “people think is normal, desirable, and appropriate.” We often hear A.I. outputs described as “generic” or “bland,” but averageness is not necessarily anodyne. Vauhini Vara, a novelist and a journalist whose recent book “Searches” focusses in part on A.I.’s impact on human communication and selfhood, told me that the mediocrity of A.I. texts “gives them an illusion of safety and being harmless.” - Kyle Chayka writing in The New Yorker
A news story I wrote for a graduate class was returned to me covered in red marks. I had a choice of one of two reactions: I could have said to myself, "Well, I can't do this." I could have thrown up my hands, given up, and moved on to something else. The assumption being that either I could write well or I couldn't write well, and once I put my talents on display, we would know which one was true.
But there is another way to react: I could decide to adjust, change my strategy, and learn from the professor's feedback. This attitude assumes that learning is not about fixed intelligence, but rather a matter of persistence. This pathway requires the student to humble themselves, ask questions, and struggle.
This process is especially difficult to accept if your ego is riding on whether you can perform new tasks effortlessly from the start. The alternative is to see yourself as a person of value and worth, regardless of performance. Of course, if God declares you to be of value simply because you are you, who are you to argue?
Stephen Goforth
What Is Gen Z Supposed to Do When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs? - New York Magazine
AI Won’t Replace You — But Your Predictability Will. Here’s How to Stay Irreplaceable. - Entrepreneur
The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired – Wall Street Journal
AI Broke Interviews – Yusuf Aytas
OpenAI looks to replace the drudgery of junior bankers’ workload - Bloomberg
Miran says impact of AI on labor ‘very difficult’ to predict - Semafor
Here’s what will really affect jobs in the age of AI – Washington Post
Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It. – New York Times
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity – Harvard Business Review
Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow. (podcast) – New York Times
AI is taking on live translations. But jobs and meaning are getting lost. - Washington Post
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI – Blood in the Machine
AI is causing anxiety about the future of the workforce. But are there AI-proof jobs? – NPR
AI is supercharging Gen Z workers — if they can land a job - Washington Post
AI job anxiety: It's real, and coming at the worst time – Axios
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads – The Atlantic
5 ways job seekers can improve their AI literacy - Washington Post
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting – The Atlantic
Bosses are seeking ‘AI literate’ job candidates. What does that mean? - Washington Post
Automation comes for tech jobs in the world capital of AI - Washington Post
Laid Off to Launch: A Toolkit for Journalists - News Revenue Hub
Will AI Replace Journalists Or Test Their Integrity? What MIT Researcher Said - NDTV
Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment – Digiday
A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool? – New York Times
X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers – Columbia Journalism Review
Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop - Pawel Brodzinski
‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model – The Guardian
New ChatGPT writing guidelines at Axel Springer-owned Business Insider - Status
How AI will upend the news – Semafor
Can the news industry stop AI theft? It might be a long shot. – Washington Post
Wired and Business Insider remove ‘AI-written’ freelance articles – Press Gazette
I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism - Columbia Journalism Review
What's behind the TikTok accounts using AI-generated versions of real Latino journalists? – NBC News
The first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. - Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Inside the quiet takeover of local journalism by AI - Fast Company
Newsrooms tap AI experts - Axios
What is AI reading? Takeaways from a report on AI brand visibility – MuckRack
Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Parkland Shooting Victim Recreated as AI for Jim Acosta Interview. – The Guardian
If AI Won't Follow the Rules, Should the Media Even Try? – Fast Company
AI presents challenges to journalism — but also opportunities - The Harvard Gazette
Most journalists use AI; few newsrooms have policies – Editor & Publisher
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Prompting tips for journalists using AI image generators – JournalismUK
Major Study Finds Many Mistakes in AI-Generated News Summaries – TV Tech
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