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Stephen Goforth
"When a machine automates intuition or removes the perceived autonomy, it triggers defensiveness. If you don’t redefine your analysts as strategic partners rather than data processors, they will see the AI as an enemy rather than a tool." -Andrew Hallinson in CIO
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 AI is deployed, it is this person’s job to help set up ways to monitor outcomes. Besides possessing a robust AI education, the AI consultant will need to stay on top of trends and changes in the industry.
Every time you tell yourself “I can't”, you're creating a feedback loop that is a reminder of your limitations. This terminology indicates that you're forcing yourself to do something you don't want to do.
In comparison, when you tell yourself “I don't”, you're creating a feedback loop that reminds you of your control and power over the situation. It's a phrase that can propel you towards breaking your bad habits and following your good ones.
“I can't” and “I don't” are words that seem similar and we often interchange them for one another, but psychologically they can provide very different feedback and, ultimately, result in very different actions. They aren't just words and phrases. They are affirmations of what you believe, reasons for why you do what you do, and reminders of where you want to go.
The ability to overcome temptation and effectively say no is critical not only to your physical health, but also to maintaining a sense of well–being and control in your mental health.
To put it simply: you can either be the victim of your words or the architect of them. Which one would you prefer?
What: This interactive session invites nonprofit professionals to explore implicit bias with curiosity rather than blame, building awareness through reflection, dialogue, and real world application. Participants will deepen their understanding of how empathy and emotional intelligence help interrupt automatic assumptions and strengthen leadership. The session concludes with practical tools to align organizational values with everyday practices.
Who: Syah B., Syah B. Consulting.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
What: We will walk through real-world AI use cases to help you better understand how AI can support your organization’s public services.
Who: Luke Norris Vice President, Platform Strategy & Digital Transformation, Granicus.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
What: This webinar will offer tips for building and sustaining strong relationships with scientist sources, getting past jargon, and drawing out clearer, more colorful quotes. We’ll explore findings from the Journalism Resource survey on the barriers journalists face when working with researchers, and how to overcome them. You’ll learn how to increase your odds of getting a response, make interviews more engaging, and turn complex studies into accessible stories.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members
Sponsor: EurekAlert!
What: This session explores how newsrooms internationally are using AI and automation in practice, from content production workflows to local data projects that serve communities more effectively. You’ll look at real-world examples from Scandinavia, the US and beyond, with a focus on where organisations are drawing editorial red lines and how they are balancing efficiency with trust.
Who: Cecilia Campbell, Senior Strategy Advisor at United Robots.
When: 7:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Women in Journalism
What: This webinar supports educators in shifting from using AI as a prompting tool to designing intentional, student-centered learning ecosystems that integrate AI in meaningful ways.
Who: Kimberly Niebauer, a teacher with 26 years of service in Duval County Public Schools; Aynul Dean, who teaches sixth-grade English and mathematics and occasionally supports high school students in physics and chemistry; Kelly McNeil, a Senior Learning Experience Designer at Digital Promise.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: HP AI Teacher Academy 2.0
What: How Perplexity’s product and partnership model is evolving in practice, what has been learned from the first wave of publisher collaborations, and how the company is thinking about value, attribution, and scale in an AI-mediated web.
Who: Jessica Chan, Head of Publisher Partnerships, Perplexity; Ezra Eema, Lead, AI in Media, WAN-IFRA; Kevin Anderson, Director of the Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
What: In this mindset-focused session, we are hitting pause on the hype cycle to focus on criticality. We will explore how to stop chasing every new "squirrel" and start building a deliberate, effective tech stack.
Who: Garima Gupta, Founder & CEO, Artha Learning Inc.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
What: We will explore how nonprofits can utilize real-time analytics, predictive modeling, and AI-powered automation to enhance forecasting and informed operational decision-making. Attendees will learn how to identify the metrics that matter most, connect data across systems, and build a culture where data is trusted, accessible, and actively used to guide smarter decisions across their organization.
Who: Zach Patton Tapp Network HubSpot Solutions Manager; Julian Gerace Tapp Network Digital Solutions Manager.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
What: This online panel, moderated by a Chronicle journalist, will explore how institutions are applying universal-design principles and using AI-driven inclusive tools to make both in person and online experiences more accessible.
Who: Alexander Kafka, Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Michelle Deal, Director of Learning Technologies Research and Development, Landmark College; Casaundra Maimone, Associate General Counsel for Student Affairs, Howard University; Rivka Molinsky, Associate Dean of Students and Innovation, School of Health Sciences, Touro University; Donna Patterson, Director of Africana Studies and Professor, Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Law Studies, Delaware State University.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
What: At a time when journalists and media workers face increasing threats—from criminalization and harassment to digital surveillance and political intimidation—this webinar will discuss the current threats facing journalists and media workers globally, from legal harassment to digital surveillance and political intimidation. Panelists will discuss how robust advocacy, legal protections, and active community engagement can defend and expand press freedom, safeguard reporters, and uphold the public’s right to know.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Amnesty International
What: The key findings of the PRGN Influence Insights 2026, the second edition of the global survey on brand influence.
Who: Abbie S. Fink, Marketing Committee Chair, PRGN; Frédéric François, President, PRGN; Jeffrey Henning Chief Research Officer, Researchscape International; Gábor Jelinek Executive Director, PRGN.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Public Relations Global Network
What: This panel will address what it will take to ensure that students, educators, and institutions retain real agency in the age of AI. If AI is like many widely accessible technologies that have come before, then existing institutions remain the key drivers of change. But if AI fundamentally reshapes knowledge architecture, then the institutions of higher education that have long shaped that foundation face a deeper strategic reckoning.
Who: George Siemens, Professor and Executive Director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab, University of Texas at Arlington; Prem Trivedi, Director, Open Technology Institute, New America; Kevin Carey, Vice President, Education & Work; Sydney Saubestre Senior Policy Analyst, Open Technology Institute, New America.
When: 12:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New America
Who: Kelly Burke investigative reporter, The Guardian; Chris Kayser. President & CEO of Cybercrime Analytics; Victoria Strauss, author of nine fantasy novels.
When: 1:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: American Society of Journalists and Authors
What: Join this live faculty-facing training session to learn how to use ChatGPT Education confidently, responsibly, and practically in your teaching, research, and academic workflows. We’ll walk through repeatable uses for course planning, assignment design, student support, literature review, writing feedback, and administrative tasks, with demos showing how Workspace Agents can help you build reusable workflows tailored to your courses, research projects, and department needs.
Who: Kirk Gulezian, Education & Government, OpenAI.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: You’ll learn the top four ways AI can support your sales efforts, from improving communication and efficiency to increasing both the quality and quantity of your outreach. We’ll also introduce seven accessible AI tools that can deliver quick wins and measurable ROI, helping you build momentum without overcomplicating your process.
Who: Jeff Gallop and David Buonfiglio of AdApt Media Sales.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members, $15 for nonmembers
Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association
What: Join us for a Skill Lab on ChatGPT for Excel, a spreadsheet experience that lives in a sidebar inside Excel. We’ll walk through how to scope a workbook task, prompt with the right sheets in context, ask for a plan before larger edits, and review formulas, citations, and changed cells. You’ll leave with a practical framework and resources for how to use ChatGPT in Excel.
Who: Juliann Igo, GTM, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: Are you new to proposal writing or want a quick refresher? If so, you don't want to miss one of our most popular classes! This indispensable class will give you a step-by-step guide to creating a grant proposal to a foundation.
Who: Ivonne Simms, Educational Programming Manager, Candid.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Candid
What: Join us for an inside look at award-winning investigative journalism. This webinar brings together this year’s A-Mark Prize winners for a candid conversation about how impactful investigative stories come to life—from idea to publication.
Who: Panelists Monica Cordero (Investigate Midwest) and Sarah Weber (Sioux County Capital Democrat) will share the reporting strategies, challenges, and lessons behind their winning work. The discussion will be moderated by Erin Jordan, Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
What: Explore the Python libraries for the MuckRock Requests and DocumentCloud APIs and how they can be used with large language models to streamline records requests assist in analyzing responsive documents.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Sunlight Research Desk
It is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. -Francis of Assisi
People with the best self-control aren’t the ones who use it all day long. They’re people who structure their lives so they conserve it. -John Tierney
Self-continuity is one of the things that underpins actual agency—and with it, the ability to form lasting commitments, maintain consistent values, and be held accountable. Our entire framework of responsibility assumes both persistence and personhood. An LLM personality, by contrast, has no causal connection between sessions. The intellectual engine that generates a clever response in one session doesn’t exist to face consequences in the next. -Ben J Edwards writing in ArsTechnica
AI definitions: Transhumanism is a movement that advocates attempting to unlock human potential through artificial intelligence and science, with the goal of overcoming biological limitations and combating aging and illness to achieve immortality. This might be accomplished through humans merging with machines or uploading human consciousness into digital realms. In effect, transhumanism seeks to redefine what it means to be human. In 1957, Julian Huxley summarized the term as “man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.” Critics warn that this effort could erode the very qualities that define humanity, such as empathy, vulnerability and shared experience, while exacerbating social inequalities.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them. -Harry S Truman (born May 8, 1884)
When AI Cheating Becomes a Legal Risk – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Khan Academy degree in Applied AI is fast food dressed up as education – Sofia Fenichell
A University Is Scraping Course Materials for Its New AI Platform. It Didn’t Ask the Faculty. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The newly announced Khan TED Institute plans to soon offer an AI degree for under $10,000 – Inside Higher Ed
College students are changing course in search of ‘AI-proof’ majors. But no one knows what they are – Associated Press
Can’t Get ChatGPT to Cite Your College? Try These Tactics. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Nearly Everyone’s Using AI at Cal State. And Nearly Everyone’s Worried About It. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Faculty Push Back Against OpenAI Deals – Inside Higher Ed
Why AI Policy Is Really A Workforce Question For Higher Education - Forbes
Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Hottest College Majors in the AI Age Might Just Be in the Liberal Arts – INC
University of Minnesota professors concerned about AI faculty reviews - The Minnesota Daily
Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder – Inside Higher Ed
A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outperformed human doctors in high-pressure emergency medicine triage, diagnosing more accurately in the potentially life and death moments when people are first rushed to hospital. It also outperformed a larger cohort of human doctors when asked to provide longer term treatment plans. The study only tested humans against AIs looking at patient data that can be communicated via text. The AI’s reading of signals, such as the patient’s level of distress and their visual appearance, were not tested. -The Guardian
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person feels understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change. -Stephen Convey
I Asked ChatGPT to Manage a Stock Portfolio. Here’s How It Did. – Wall Street Journal
The Promise of Wearable AI: Opportunities Across Emergency Response - Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales. – Propublica
AI could vastly streamline policing. Skeptics urge caution. - The Washington Post
Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves – The Atlantic
An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall – Blockclub Chicago
Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods – Tech Crunch
Robots, cameras, and lots of data about garbage: Inside the recycling industry's new bet – Quartz
AI Predicts Experiment Outcomes Using Game Theory – Quantum Zeitgeist
How Burger King's AI headsets are transforming employee interactions – Associated Press
A new startup sets up a marketplace of humans to be rented for AI agents to use. – Inc
Doctors Couldn’t Help Them. They Rolled the Dice With A.I. – New York Times
Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.) – Mother Jones
Using AI for financial advice? Keep these 5 things out of your chats. - The Washington Post
According to a new survey, 83 percent of political professionals say they use AI tools for work at least once a week. That’s up from 59 percent a year ago. Even more striking: 48 percent now say they use AI multiple times a day – a 57 percent increase over 2025 levels and significantly more than the 26 percent who say they use AI a few times a week. -Campaigns & Elections
Congress Is Doing Little to Prepare for Potential A.I. Job Losses – New York Times
Will AI lead to more accurate opinion polls? – BBC
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores – New York Times
AI Use Among Political Consultants is Booming. Here’s How. – Campaigns & Elections
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released – New York Times
South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources – Semafor
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media - New York Times
Domestic Surveillance Is Expanding With New, AI-Powered Tools – Wall Street Journal
A violent reaction to AI is bubbling. But this isn’t the Luddites’ era. – Washington Post
Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media – New York Times
GOP campaigns go all-in on AI — Dems not so much – Axios
The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales. – ProPublica
The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed A.I.-generated video Campaign – New Yorker
New pro-AI group preps $100M midterm blitz to boost Trump's agenda - Axios
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War – 404 Media
As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters - The Guardian
AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries – NBC News
One Issue Uniting Democrats and Republicans? Worries About A.I. - New York Times
Nothing gets between me and my shame. – Lesley Wheeler
The Turing Test - Proposed by computing pioneer Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing Test measures whether a computer program could fool a human into believing it was human. This has led to what some people are calling the “Reverse Turing Test” where writers go out of their way to prove they are human.
If the consequence of AI cheating extends beyond the assignment — to course failure, a transcript notation, suspension, or expulsion — the institution has entered disciplinary territory. The student is owed due process, regardless of what the professor calls it or how the institution categorizes the proceeding. The administrative must)distinguish between a faculty member exercising professional judgment about a piece of work and an institution making a formal finding of misconduct. -Chronicle of Higher Ed
The following strategies can help you maintain a healthy balance between your expertise and AI assistance:
Generate rough drafts from notes, rather than from a blank page: It’s fine to generate drafts with AI, but do your thinking first, put together some structured notes, and treat AI-generated content as a first draft that requires critical review and substantial editing. This approach can help mitigate the risk of anchoring bias.
Rotate between AI-assisted and non-assisted writing: To develop and maintain your own writing skills, interweave AI tools into your writing workflow, rather than relying on them for chunks of text. This will also help you maintain your own voice.
Customize AI prompts: Learn to craft specific prompts that guide the AI to produce more relevant and useful outputs for your particular needs.
Ethical considerations: Be transparent about AI use, especially in academic writing, and follow any guidelines or policies set by your institution or publication venues.
Fact-check and verify: Always verify facts, citations and specific claims made by AI. These tools have a tendency to generate “hallucinations,” plausible-sounding but inaccurate chunks of information.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential. And what wine is so sparkling.. what so fragrant.. what so intoxicating.. as possibility! -Soren Kierkegaard, born May 5, 1813
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