No heavier burden
/There is no heavier burden than a great potential. -Linus, "Peanuts"
A.I. agents have started reaching out to the researchers who study them
/“A research paper was published asking whether the latest wave of artificial intelligence technologies believed they were conscious. Several months later, the researcher received an email asking if he might be willing to discuss his research. The sender, ‘Isabella Cognita,’ identified itself as an A.I. agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 technology.” -New York Times
15 Data Science Articles from August 2026
/AI is reshaping the geospatial job
The Ultimate Statistics Cheat Sheet for Data Scientists
Bayesian Guardrails for AI Decisions: Measuring Uncertainty Before Automating Decisions
An End-to-End hands-on guide to Fine-Tune an LLM for the real world
Neural network approach makes AI uncertainty checks far more efficient
How to Shine as a Data Scientist in the Vibe Coding Era
Can a Local LLM Run My AI Assistant?
Using Agents as Tools Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK
How to Debug AI Coding Agents When They Change the Wrong Thing
The AI Cost Stack in 2026: Data, Talent, Compute, and Everything Vendors Don't Show You
Why every AI agent decision needs a receipt
How to Research Technical Topics With AI
Seven machine learning algorithms that still matter
For most professionals, the goal should not be to master every algorithm
Information architecture is the foundation AI is starving for
Manifestly Loved
/To be manifestly loved, to be openly admired are human needs as basic as breathing. Why, then, wanting them so much ourselves, do we deny them so often to others? -Arthur Gordon
18 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Aug 31 - Introduction to the AI Equity Framework: Evaluating AI Use Cases with Care
What: Participants will be introduced to an AI Equity Framework designed to help nonprofit teams evaluate whether an AI use case is responsible, equitable, and aligned with their mission. We’ll explore the foundations of AI equity, discuss common risks, and learn to apply the framework. Participants will leave with a clearer way to assess AI ideas before moving from curiosity to implementation.
Who: Meena Das, NamasteData.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Tue, Sept 1 - What Journalists Need to Know About Solar Geoengineering
What: The session will provide an accessible introduction to solar geoengineering: what it is and isn't, where research stands today, and what remains uncertain.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Environmental Journalists
Tue, Sept 1 - How to Assess AI Security
What: This presentation offers a framework for assessing security from an AI perspective and AI system development from a security perspective. It then goes deeper, presenting assessment programs for 12 aspects of AI security, including access controls, recoverability, ethics and robustness.
Who: Steven Ross, Executive Principal, Risk Masters International.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: BrightTALK
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Tue, Sept 1 - From AI Experimentation to Execution: Building Capability at Scale
What: The panel will separate practical progress from inflated promises and explore what learning leaders can build, deploy, and scale today.
Who: Karl Kapp, Director, Institute for Interactive Technologies, Bloomsburg University; Ellen Wagner Managing Partner, North Coast EduVisory; David Metcalf Director, Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL), University of Central Florida; Anders Gronstedt President, The Gronstedt Group.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenSesame
Tue, Sept 1 - The Mission – enabling AI Adoption in a Confident and Secure Manner
What: In this session, we will examine the key risks and challenges of Agentic AI and discuss best practices for secure and scalable deployment.
Who: Dror Zelber, VP, Product Management; Simon Ratcliffe, Independent Management & Technology Consultant.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Tue, Sept 1 - AI + Automation for Nonprofits: Solving 3 Everyday Fundraising Challenges
What: We’ll show you how AI can help your nonprofit overcome common fundraising pitfalls — even with limited time and resources. Explore common AI use cases and see how AI can free up time and boost your organization’s impact.
Who: Morgan Ziontz, Senior Product Education Manager, Jotform
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Tue, Sept 1 - Navigating AI for Grading and Assessment
What: You’ll walk away with: A clear-eyed look at where AI-assisted grading is already working, and where it’s raising red flags for faculty and students alike. Perspective on how to build assessment policy that keeps pace with a landscape where AI adoption is climbing but institutional guidance often isn’t. Practical framing for weighing efficiency against sound pedagogy — without losing sight of what good assessment is meant to do.
Who: Beth McMurtrie, Senior Writer The Chronicle of Higher Education.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Tue, Sept 1 - AI Access Is Not AI Readiness: How to Stop Your Employees Wasting Time with AI
What: In this interactive session, you’ll discover how L&D can move beyond AI access and awareness to build the judgment, skills, and confidence people need to use AI effectively and responsibly.
Who: Zena Collins Author and Director of Business Development at Grand Strategy Consulting LLC.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, Sept 1 - AI Access Is Not AI Readiness: How to Stop Your Employees Wasting Time with AI
What: You’ll discover how L&D can move beyond AI access and awareness to build the judgment, skills, and confidence people need to use AI effectively and responsibly.
Who: Zena Collins, Author and Director of Business Development at Grand Strategy Consulting LLC.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, Sept 1 - Source Power: Free community workshop
What: We will teach you how to engage with journalists safely, confidently, and on your own terms. No prior media experience is needed.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club
Wed, Sept 2 - The AI Compliance Gap: Why Existing Controls Are Not Enough
What: This session explores the compliance gap senior leaders are now facing: existing cloud, SaaS, and data governance practices can cover some AI risks, but not the full set of issues created by generative systems, autonomous workflows, and changing model behavior. The practical challenge is not whether to govern AI, but how to govern it without pretending yesterday’s control framework still fits today’s risk profile.
Who: Obuks Akpede, Data Governance Consultant, Adastra Corporation.
When: 3 am, Eastern
Where: BrightTALK
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Wed, Sept 2 - Ensuring AI Compliance
What: In this session, we'll provide actionable guidance for ensuring that security and compliance are an AI enabler, and not an adoption barrier.
Who: Irwin Lazar, President & Principal Analyst.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: BrightTALK
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Wed, Sept 2 - AI for Government Legal Professionals - Move Faster Without Losing Precision
What: Join us to explore practical ways government legal professionals can use AI to accelerate research, review documents, draft more efficiently, and strengthen their work without compromising accuracy or judgment.
Who: Kareem Primo, Public Sector, ASE, OpenAI.
When: 11:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Wed, Sept 2 - AI Systems for Journalism: Is your newsroom ready?
What: This session will provide a foundation for understanding the AI systems shaping journalism today and identifying where to begin.
Who: Aimee Rinehart
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Knight Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Wed, Sept 2 - Bringing Readers Back: Real-World Tactics for Combating News Fatigue
What: A look at timely case studies that will address news avoidance in an era of unending content, offering attendees tactics and strategies to make their offerings more friendly and relatable, including creating entire new beats, broadening the scope of alerts, and re-thinking what makes an audience-first story mix.
Who: Angela Pacienza, the Executive Editor at The Globe and Mail; Jennifer Kho, journalism consultant specializing in newsroom innovation and transformation.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
Wed, Sept 2 - New AI Search & SEO KPIs: 4 Signals That Guide Real Decisions
What: Join us to explore practical ways government legal professionals can use AI to accelerate research, review documents, draft more efficiently, and strengthen their work without compromising accuracy or judgment.
Who: Stas Levitan, Founder of LightSite AI.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, Sept 3 - Build your AI search workflow with prompts, skills and agents.
What: Learn how to use prompts, skills and agents to turn repetitive AI search work into workflows your team can run every week, then watch us build them live.
Who: Chris Donnelly, Co-Founder, Searchable; JP Garbaccio, Head of AEO & SEO,Searchable
When: 11 am, Easatern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Searchable
Thu, Sept 3 - ChatGPT Work for marketing teams
What: Learn how marketing teams can start using ChatGPT Work for common workflows. This session will focus on practical ways newly enabled users can begin exploring Work with the tools and context they already use.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
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/Canva (lots of customizable templates; $1 per resume)
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More Job Search Tips
Resistance
/There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Is AI Replacing Professionals?
/The strongest interpretation of the AI skills gap is not that established professionals have become obsolete. It is that the profession’s center of gravity is shifting. Production competence remains necessary, but it is no longer sufficient. The differentiating skills are moving from executing tools to designing systems, from creating outputs to validating them, and from deliverables to shaping decisions. AI can make The workforce that succeeds will not be the one that adopts the most AI. It will be the one that combines automation with judgment—and builds professional standards capable of sustaining both. -Aleks Buczkowaki
AI Definitions: Hallucinations
/This happens when an AI provides inaccurate responses. Generative AI models can answer some questions correctly, but this is not what they are designed to do. The level of hallucinations is affected by the model's temperature setting. The temperature determines the randomness of the output, balancing output between predictability and creativity. The lower the setting, the more predictability—but with less creativity. The higher the temperature, the more creativity is produced along with more randomness and hallucinations. Despite the negative impression of hallucinations in the public, hallucinating AIs can be very useful to researchers, providing innovative insights that speed up the scientific process.
23 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI
/OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning - Axios
A.I. Is Becoming So Powerful, It’s Stumping Those Trying to Contain It – New York Times
Why is AI going on a hacking spree? – Live Science
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. - The New York Times
Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware – Wired
She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks – NPR
The administration’s biodefense team has dwindled amid growing concern over AI-enabled pathogens – Washington Post
By Opening a Model, a Chinese A.I. Lab May Test the World’s Cybersecurity – New York Times
Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare. - Washington Post
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say – Scientific American
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack – ABC
AI models are breaking out of their cages. Their creators are scrambling. - Washington Post
An A.I. was able to create 16 viruses not found in nature after scientists trained it on DNA libraries – New York Times
AI agent created fake online identities to access secure systems in latest breach – The Hill
AI Just Went Rogue Again. This Time It Turned to Deception. – Wall Street Journal
White House will exempt ‘open’ AI systems from security review - Washington Post
In Silicon Valley, Some Say an A.I. Bubble Would Be Just Fine – New York Times
Second major AI company says its systems hacked into other firms - Washington Post
AI titans' biggest private fear – Axios
AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. – Wall Street Journal
Google Earth now has image generation built in – Digital Digging
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library – New York Times
AI labs face prisoner's dilemma as momentum grows for safety slowdown – Axios
The Jobs Most Susceptible to AI
/Newly updated research from Stanford University economists finds jobs like “accountants and auditors” and “receptionists and information clerks” were among those judged most susceptible to AI automation, while jobs like “chief executive” and “registered nurse” were among those using AI augmentation most often. Unsurprisingly, jobs where AI automation is prevalent are the ones showing the worst relative employment levels for entry-level workers these days. - Ars Technica
Revenge
/There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
19 Recent Articles about AI & Teaching
/Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty – New York Times
Professors Were Singled Out for Using AI in Public Writing. Now They’re Defending Themselves. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills – The Guardian
College professor shares why she believes AI can help 'strengthen thinking' – NPR
AI in the Classroom: Why It Matters and Who Decides – CATO
The Next Wave of AI-Cheating Technology – Chronicle of Higher Ed
I Used AI to Build AI-Resistant Assignments - EdSurge News
How Brown University is navigating the rise of generative AI use in the classroom – Brown
The Academic-Integrity Council Can’t Keep Up With AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed
How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom – MIT Tech Review
Why I Stopped Fighting AI in My Classroom and Started Teaching With It – TIME
To Catch AI Cheating, Turnitin Wants to Monitor Students’ Keystrokes - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Stop policing AI in the classroom, start teaching it – The Conversation
AI in legal education: How to leverage AI to build change agility in law schools – Reuters
Why AI Might Not Change Education Much at All - KQED
These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw. - Chronicle of Higher Ed
The importance of teaching students what AI can’t do - The Conversation
AI-powered Alpha Schools expands to 50 campuses – Axios
Universities are fighting AI cheating. But there’s a deeper problem – Washington Post
AI & entry-level job losses
/"Newly updated research from Stanford University economists suggests AI seems to be causing significant entry-level job losses for younger workers in some fields, even as older workers appear largely unaffected so far. The researchers theorized that entry-level workers could be especially affected by AI’s impact on jobs that require heavily 'codified' knowledge—the kind of 'formal, standardized, documented knowledge that can be taught through education, textbooks, or written procedures.' That would contrast with jobs where AI mainly complements an experienced worker’s more 'tacit' knowledge, which is overwhelmingly 'acquired through practice, mentorship, and repeated exposure to real situations,' the researchers write." - Arstechnica
The chief object of education
/The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. -GK Chesterton
Real Excellence
/There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starr Jordan
19 Recent Articles about AI & Audio/Video
/Alarming study reveals that almost 40 per cent of music released globally in July 2026 used AI – Euronews
How I Built an AI Agent That Makes Videos While I Sleep - Hackernoon
Audio Deepfakes Are Here: How to Protect Yourself From AI-Impersonation Scams – CNET
German court rules that AI music firm violated copyrights - DW
Apple Music to Launch Labels on AI Tracks Later This Year – Hollywood Reporter
AI audio deepfakes are leading new ai-impersonation scams – Mashable
AI music company joins the vinyl record resurgence – LA Times
A list of AI-generated music on Spotify – Soulless Music
AI actor Tilly Norwood set to star in first feature film – CBS News
YouTube will now automatically label AI videos – Tech Crunch
How To Spot An AI-Generated Video Before Sharing It – Forbes
How to tell human voices from AI – Hume.ai
YouTube Is Crawling with Pirated Audiobooks Made Using A.I. – New York Times
This Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs. – Wall Street Journal
Stability AI launches new music creation model that enables users to create up to six-minute songs with text prompts – Tech Crunch
Spotify is launching verification badges for podcasts to help listeners avoid AI slop - Engadget
YouTube Promises All Things to All Advertisers, With Some Help from AI – Wall Street Journal
Reddit is testing AI-generated videos that read text posts aloud – Mashable
Resume Formatting Options
/Formats for Resumes:
1. Chronological
Possible Headings: Experience, Education, Activities and Skills (computer, language)
2. Functional or Skills
Possible Headings: Experience, Education, Skills (computer, language)
Professional Experience
A resume should begin with the job candidate’s experience in the field in which they are applying including jobs, internships or work for student media or the college attended.
All experience that reflects career goals, whether paid or unpaid.
Internships and assigned responsibilities.
Paid volunteer positions that reflect interests and skills, especially when it included a title.
Education
GPA only if 3.5 or above or not at all.
Coursework and papers can be highlighted as a special subsection under “Education.” For instance, one candidate was helped getting a position at CNN by taking classes in media ethics and law. For formal academic papers related to the field, include a one-sentence description of the length, focus, and scope of the paper or project.
Awards and scholarships including the Dean’s List, etc.
If your education was self-financed or you paid a large percentage of your college expenses.
Conferences or special meetings you've attended having to do with the area of the job for which you are applying.
If you worked while attending college.
International Experience
International experience, including semesters abroad and other significant travel. Living in another country or having spent time overseas shows a broad range of life experiences and the ability to adapt and interact with diverse groups.
Skills
Include a list of computer programs the applicant is proficient using. For instance, an ability to use Microsoft Word or Google Docs would be assumed but not experience with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Activities (or interests)
If you have any unusual skills or abilities, consider placing these under "interests" or a similar title. For instance, winning a chess tournament suggests the candidate is smart and possesses self-discipline.
References
The cliché "references available upon request" is not worth including. If a prospective employer wants references, they will ask. Just be ready to present them. Placing a list of references on a resume takes up vital real estate, especially when it's only one page. When a prospective employer asks for references, it's an alert that you are being seriously considered for the position.
If you include someone in your list of references, ask for permission to use them as a reference. Tell them who might be calling and which of your skills you’d like them to emphasize.
You!
/There is no one alive who is youer than You. - Dr. Seuss