11 Recent Articles about Data Privacy & Security

AI trains on your Gmail and Instagram, and you can’t do much about it - The Washington Post  

Why deleting something from the internet is 'almost impossible' - CNN

How To Scan Your iPhone For Malware - SlashGear

RIP, Passwords. Here’s What’s Coming Next  – New York Times

The metaverse brings a new breed of threats to challenge privacy and security gatekeepers – CSO

Companies are hoarding personal data about you. Here’s how to get them to delete it. - The Washington Post 

Tech firms seek private data to train AI - Axios

It is crucial that security teams tests AI products, making sure vendors supply reports about potential security flaws and provides life-cycle updates before the company introduces new software into its systems. – Wall Street Journal 

Is ChatGPT becoming a serious security risk for your business? – Tech Radar

We don’t know exactly how things are working and how the inputs are kept, managed, monitored, or surveilled over time – MIT Tech Review

What Biden’s AI executive order means for data privacy – Semafor  

When someone vents anger

Don’t react when someone vents anger. Pretend you are watching from a distance.

Start before You’re Ready

A side effect of doing challenging work is that you’re pulled by excitement and pushed by confusion at the same time.

You’re bound to feel uncertain, unprepared, and unqualified. But let me assure you of this: what you have right now is enough. You can plan, delay, and revise all you want, but trust me, what you have now is enough to start. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to start a business, lose weight, write a book, or achieve any number of goals… who you are, what you have, and what you know right now is good enough to get going.

We all start in the same place: no money, no resources, no contacts, no experience. The difference is that some people — the winners — choose to start anyway.

James Clear

Yesterday & Today

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today!

10 Data Science articles from October

China continues remote-sensing buildup with new launch of Yaogan satellites

Bayes factors evaluate priors, cross validations evaluate posteriors

How the Pentagon sizes up China’s military strength in space

Convolutional Neural Networks: what are they, types and applications?

5 most common and important data structures that every data scientist should learn and master

Most AI projects fail. Some estimates place the failure rate as high as 80%. There are ways, however, to increase the odds of success

The various industries where the demand is rising for data scientists

China plans to create lunar satellite network for deep space communications

NRO building new satellites to deliver ‘10 times more signals and images’

Slingshot Aerospace harnessing AI to track suspicious satellites

17 Quotes from Articles Comparing Generative AI to the Use of Calculators in Classrooms

Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the tedium of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion? – The Atlantic

There's a natural progression. New tools like the calculator, like Grammarly and editing tools that came out a number of years ago that made all of our writing better, including mine, right? Those are things that are just going to keep on coming. And, we can't stop them from coming, but it's up to us to decide how to integrate them appropriately. – ABC News

As math professors once had to adjust their math teaching in the presence of calculators, writing instructors may need to adjust their teaching in the presence of AI tools. “It would be like micromanaging the use of calculators in in a math class,” Underwood said. “If you’re doing that, it’s a sign that you’re not you’re not taking the opportunity to teach them more advanced math that would actually help them.” – Inside Higher Ed

The question before us is how we can productively use ChatGPT to help our students become knowledge transformers?  A writer, a teacher, and an education professor all suggest an analogy from the calculator and math to ChatGPT and writing. In the same way that calculators became an important tool for students in math classes, ChatGPT has potential to become an important tool for writers who want to hone their critical thinking skills along with their communication skills. – Brookings

Much as Google devalued the steel-trap memory, electronic calculators speeded up complex calculations, Wikipedia displaced the printed encyclopedia and online databases diminished the importance of a vast physical library, so, too, platforms like ChatGPT will profoundly alter the most prized skills. According to Chamorro-Premuzic, the skills that will be most in demand will be the ability to: Know what questions to ask. – Inside Higher Ed

It reminds him of what his mother, a high-school math teacher, went through when graphing calculators were introduced. The initial reaction was to ban them; the right answer, he says, was to embrace and use them to enhance learning. “It was a multiyear process with a lot of trying and testing and evaluating and assessing.” Similarly, he anticipates a variety of approaches on his campus. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Gibson, who has been teaching for 25 years, likened it to more familiar tech tools that enhance, not replace, learning and critical thinking. “I don’t know how to do it well yet, but I want AI chatbots to become like calculators for writing,” she says. Gibson’s view of ChatGPT as a teaching tool, not the perfect cheat, brings up a crucial point: ChatGPT is not intelligent in the way people are, despite its ability to spew humanlike text. It is a statistical machine that can sometimes regurgitate or create falsehoods and often needs guidance and further edits to get things right. – Wired

In the past, near-term prohibitions on slide rules, calculators, word processors, spellcheck, grammar check, internet search engines and digital texts have fared poorly. They focus on in-course tactics rather than on the shifting contexts of what students need to know and how they need to learn it. Reframing questions about AI writers will drive assignment designs and assessments that can minimize academic integrity concerns while promoting learning outcomes. – Inside Higher Ed

Judging from the reaction on TikTok, teachers on the app see ChatGPT as a tool to be treated the same way calculators and cell phones are used in class — as resources to help students succeed but not do the work for them. – Mashable

Professors wondered whether students would lean on the technology as a crutch. “Just as some feared that pocket calculators would cause schoolchildren to forget their multiplication tables, some professors worry that students will learn how to use graphical calculators without learning the concepts of mathematics,” The Chronicle reported in 1992. “[Students] know the information is a quick Google search away,” one professor wrote in a 2015  op-ed for The Chronicle encouraging professors to ban the use of calculators found on laptops and phones during exams. “What’s the point of memorizing it, they want to know.” Despite those fears, the use of calculators in math classrooms and the drum of keyboards in lecture halls are now commonplace. “The calculator changes the kinds of questions that you can ask students,” one professor told The Chronicle in 1992. “A lot of problems we used to assign were very artificial, so the numbers would come out nicely. Today we don’t need to worry about that so much. The problems aren’t harder, but they’re not as neat.” – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Every time a new technology is introduced, we find ourselves struggling with how it forces people to rethink the things they do. The best comparison, he said, is calculators, which, like ChatGPT, many found threatening to education. The worry, he explained, was about the possibility of calculators and statistical software eventually replacing mathematicians. – Grid 

The New York City Department of Education has banned ChatGPT in its schools, as has the University of Sciences Po, in Paris, citing concerns it may foster rampant plagiarism and undermine learning. Other professors openly encourage use of chatbots, comparing them to educational tools like a calculator, and argue teachers should adapt curriculums to the software. “Do you want to go to war with your students over AI tools?” said Ian Linkletter, who serves as emerging technology and open-education librarian at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. “Or do you want to give them clear guidance on what is and isn’t okay, and teach them how to use the tools in an ethical manner?” “There are lots of years when the pocket calculator was used for all math ever, and you walked into a classroom and you weren’t allowed to use it,” he said. “It took probably a generational switch for us to realize that’s unrealistic.” Educators must grapple with the concept of “what does it mean to test knowledge.” In this new age, he said, it will be hard to get students to stop using AI to write first drafts of essays, and professors must tailor curriculums in favor of other assignments, such as projects or interactive work. “Pedagogy is going to be different,” he said. “And fighting [AI], I think it’s a losing battle.” – Washington Post 

In an academic context, we should approach language models as engines for provisional reasoning — “calculators for words,” as British programmer Simon Willison calls them. Instead of assuming that the model already has an answer to every question in memory, this approach provides, in the prompt, any special assumptions or background knowledge the model will be expected to use. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Once calculators became prevalent, elementary schools pivoted to translating real-world problems into math formulations rather than training for arithmetic speed. Once online search became widely available, colleges taught students how to properly cite online sources. Some have explored banning AI in education. That would be hard to enforce; it’s also unhealthy, as students will need to function in an AI-infused workplace upon graduation. – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Every generation of students comes of age with new technology. From the calculator and the personal laptop to smartphones to Zoom, each has been initially met with angst about the disruption to traditional teaching. We fear foundational knowledge will be replaced by robotic inputs and outputs, or that personal interactions unmediated by screens will be eliminated. And so the new technology can seem an obstacle to the parts of the educational experience we love the most — the look when a student first grasps a difficult concept, the spark from an original idea during a brainstorming session, the give-and-take of a classroom debate. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Practically speaking, I’m treating GPT like a calculator: Most of us used calculators in math class and still didn’t get perfect grades. After discovering my first ChatGPT essay, I decided that going forward, students can use generative A.I. on assignments, so long as they disclose how and why. I’m hoping this will lead to less banging my head against the kitchen table–and, at its best, be its own kind of lesson. – Slate

As academe adjusts to a world with ChatGPT, faculty will need to find fresh ways to assess students’ writing.The same was true when calculators first began to appear in math classrooms, and professors adapted the exams. “Academic integrity is about being honest about the way you did your work.” Spell checkers, David Rettinger, president emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity, pointed out, are a prime example of artificial intelligence that may have been controversial at first, but are now used routinely without a second thought to produce papers. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Just as calculators and the internet once upended teaching and learning, generative AI represents “a new, major disruption,” says Mike Prizament, senior product marketing manager at Adobe. “It’s also an opportunity to tackle the main challenges in higher education.” – EdTech

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Go turn into love.  -Bob Goff

8 Free Media Webinars in the next two weeks

Mon, Oct 30 - Tips to Make Your Organization More Digitally Accessible

What: Participants will learn tips for designing websites, email marketing campaigns and physical spaces with accessibility in mind. We will also discuss what accessibility means, how to design for accessibility and tips for being more inclusive at your organization

Who: Marketing Branding Consultant Israel Serna

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Adelante Partners

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Tue, Oct 31- Empowering news media with artificial intelligence

What: During this webinar, we will officially launch smartocto.ai and demonstrate how it works. Smartocto.ai provides 5 simple and effective ways of using AI in the newsroom: - Advanced headline testing - Automatic content classification (including user needs) - Smart story rewriting - Timing optimization.

Who: Erik Van Heeswijk, Smartocto CEO

When: 9 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Smartocto

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Wed, Nov 1 - Building A Social Media Calendar & Strategy For Your Nonprofit with Nina Staer Nathan

What:  Why auditing your social media is so important, a roadmap for how to do it and how to build a social media strategy and a social media calendar.

Who: Nina Staer Nathan who holds a certificate in Digital Marketing Management from the University of Toronto, and a Post-Graduate in Project Management & International Development from Humber College.

When: 1 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Nonprofit Hub

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Wed, Nov 1 - AI’s Impact on Inbound Marketing: Key Trends for 2024

What: Uncover the trends that will disrupt B2B marketing in 2024, and how to turn them into a competitive advantage. You’ll find out:  How to use AI to deliver a personalized buying experience and build a stronger pipeline. Why one simple but important change to your website can double your sales meetings  What a successful marketing strategy and impact will look like in 2024.

Who: Jessica Gilmartin CMO, Calendly; Brian Mitchell Head of Revenue Marketing ,Calendly; Julia Farina Senior Manager, Product Marketing, Calendly       

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Calendly

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Fri, Nov 3 - Design 101: How to create visuals when it’s not usually your job  

What: Best practices, tools you have at your disposal, and exercises for creating visuals regardless of your hands-on design experience.

Who: Beth Francesco, the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s executive director

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Journalism Institute at the National Press Club

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Mon, Nov 6 - Getting it right: Pushing past resistance to better firearms violence reporting  

What: This webinar will explore how four journalists have tried to be part of the solution and the changes they’ve observed. They’ll share tips for managing managers, taking small steps (and feeling okay about that) and the importance of working closely in the communities most affected by the violence.

Who: Kaitlin Washburn, a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times; Abené Clayton, a reporter for The Guardian; Christopher Norris is a two-time Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist and former managing editor for community and engagement at WHYY

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Association of Health Care Journalists

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Tue, Nov 7 - Google News Lab — Trends and Advanced Search

What: This session will equip you with practical reporting tips with examples. In Advanced Search, we’ll share how using search modifiers and specialized search engines can unearth story ideas and sources. We'll also look at how Google Trends can lead to insights on local audiences and complement your storytelling.

When: 11 am, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Google News Labs

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Thu, Nov 9 – Key YouTube Strategies for 2024

What: Results from a soon-to-be-released study of media agencies. You’ll find out: How advertisers are addressing brand suitability challenges on YouTube and balancing that with campaign performance goals. How brand and agency leaders predict their spending on YouTube and CTV will change in 2024.  Platform changes that could have a big impact on how brands represent themselves on YouTube in 2024, including shifts in how they can advertise to diverse communities.

Who: Tamara Alesi CEO, Mediaplus North America; Jessica Goon CMO, Tate's Bake Shop; Matt Duffy   CMO, Pixability.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Pixability

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12 Articles on Cheating with AI & AI Detectors

The Trouble With AI Writing Detection – Inside Higher Ed

College application season is here. So is the struggle to find out if AI wrote students’ essays – Cal Matters 

If using ChatGPT to write essays becomes widespread, those students who elect not to use it, who prefer to do the work themselves, may suffer a penalty for doing so. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Results of a new survey flip the early narrative on ChatGPT—that students would rush to use it to cheat on assignments and that teachers would scramble to keep up—on its head. Half of students, ages 12-18, said they have never used ChatGPT. – Ed Week

OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector – Tech Crunch

Universities Rethink Using AI Writing Detectors to Vet Students’ Work – Bloomberg 

Identifying AI’s flaws motivates students and helps them build confidence, which can discourage cheating. Pointing out where it still really messes up is very powerful for empowering students to see their own strengths as human thinkers. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Students cheat out of desperation so one professor will give multi-level assignments that force students to submit papers at various stages to keep track of their progress. – Yahoo News

The AI Detection Arms Race Is On And college students are developing the weapons, quickly building tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection. – Wired

Simply leaving it up to students to decide whether they’re going to do the work, without further comment or intervention or negative sanction from me, is a failure of pedagogy. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI detectors have low efficiency, and simple modifications can allow even the most robust detectors to be easily bypassed. – Science Direct 

Suspicion, Cheating & Bans: AN Hits America's Schools (podcast) – New York Times

15 Webinars This Week about Journalism, AI, Social Media, The First Amendment & More

Mon, Oct 23 - The Defamation Machine

What: If corporations can be human enough to be held liable for defamation, why can’t computers?

Who: Professor James Grimmelmann, Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.

When: 7 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Mon, Oct 23 - Reporting While Blind

What: The event will begin with a screening of a nine-minute ESPN documentary on blind baseball writer Ed Lucas's life named 'The Visionary.' Afterward, there will be a 90-minute discussion.

Who: Allison Lucas, the widow of the blind baseball writer Ed Lucas, is the president of the Ed Lucas Foundation, which supports the blind and visually impaired. She’ll discuss her husband's career in a conversation with Nick Hirshon, associate professor of communication at the William Paterson University.

When: 2:15 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists

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Mon-Tue, Oct 23/24 - Social Media, Race, and Community Knowledge Practices An Interdisciplinary Conference  

What: How are racialized communities using social media to construct knowledge? How are social media platforms facilitating

Who: Karlos K. Hill is Advisor to the President for Community Engagement and Regents’ Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma; Sherri Irvin is Presidential Research Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies and Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Oklahoma; Jeong-Nam Kim University of Oklahoma, Fellow at the Data Institute for Societal Challenges; Lawrence Ware is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Oklahoma State University.

When: 10 am – 4:30 pm

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The University of Oklahoma

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Tue, Oct 24  - The Rise of Generation Alpha: What Marketers Need to Know

What: You’ll find out the four influences having the biggest impact on Alpha’s state of childhood, who they will grow up to be and their life experiences along the way. The societal forces shaping what it means to be a parent today, and the relationship parents pursue with their kids. Tactical ways for brands to authentically connect with a new generation of kids

Who: Mary Kate Callen VP, Audience Impact & Intelligence Paramount; Margie Papa Sr. Director, Audience Impact & Intelligence  Paramount; Alexander Cammy Manager, Audience Impact & Intelligence Paramount.    

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Paramount Advertising, Nickelodeon

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Tue, Oct 24 - ChatGPT Prompts for Grant Writing, Fundraising, and Marketing

What: How ChatGPT can revolutionize your grant writing, fundraising, and marketing endeavors. From understanding the AI’s capabilities to crafting compelling grant applications, this webinar offers a comprehensive look at cutting-edge techniques.

Who: Lisa Quigley, Tapp Network, Director Of Account Strategy; Tareq Monuar, Web Developer

When: 12 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: TechSoup

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Tue, Oct 24 - Emerging Social Media Trends 

What: You’ll walk away with: What are the biggest social marketing trends. What are the Small Business social media trends on the horizon. Tips and tricks to get started with some of these social networks, and marketing strategies and tactics.

Who: Ray Sidney-Smith, CEO, W3 Consulting

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: $35

Sponsor: Duquesne University

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Wed, Oct 25 - Media Literacy and Mental Health

What: Join us for this discussion on the relationship between robust media literacy skills and student mental health, and how educators can prioritize student wellbeing and social-emotional learning when introducing media literacy resources. A panel of educators will share how they teach media literacy and current events in their classroom, how they prioritize mental health during their students’ learning journeys, and how it has impacted their students. 

Who: Pulitzer Center Teacher Fellows Karen Sojourner, a high school teacher in Kansas City, Missouri; Lisa Holewa, an elementary school teacher and former journalist in San Mateo, California; and Michelle Dueñas Mowery, a high school teacher in Chicago, Illinois.  

When: 7 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND)

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Thu, Oct 26 - Trauma-informed journalism

What: From the rising prevalence of mass shootings to daily crime coverage, journalists frequently encounter and interview victims of trauma. Cherry will discuss her research project that produced educational materials for journalists on working with these victims in a trauma-informed way.

Who: Tamara Cherry spent 15 years as a crime reporter for the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, and CTV News Toronto.

When: 12 pm, Mountain Time

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists

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Thu, Oct 26 – Journalism's Role in Architectural Communication

What: A thought-provoking online discussion on how journalism plays a pivotal role in shaping and communicating the stories behind architectural projects. Discover how the power of words and storytelling converges with the world of design and construction, influencing not only our understanding and appreciation of architecture but also demonstrating why attracting press and media coverage is vital for entrepreneurs and designers looking to showcase their work to the world.  

Who: Peter Murray, Chairman of New London Architecture and the London Society; Rose Marshall, Associate Director at ING Media; Marisa Santamaria, Researcher, curator, journalist, professor; Jerónimo van Schendel is the Director of the Master in Business for Architecture and Design at IE School of Architecture and Design.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: IE University School of Architecture & Design

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Thu, Oct 26 -Brand Journalism for PR Agencies

What: The nuances of brand journalism, and how to get it right for your clients. The session will cover: Why brand journalism is more than on-message corporate blogs. The secret of creating content with a journalistic style. How content marketing can help clients build their audiences.

Who: Natasha Netschay Davies Owner & Chief Strategist, Moonraker PR

When: 1 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Agency Grind

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Thu, Oct 26 - Key First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court

What: First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court this term, including cameras in the courts, the Trump trial in D.C., Justice Thomas and his quest to overturn Times v. Sullivan.

Who: Award-winning Supreme Court and legal journalist Chris Geidner, who is known as the Law Dork.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Environmental Journalists, East Tenn. Pro Chapter

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Thu, Oct 26 - How To Cover Conservation Technology

What: Our panel will give reporters story tips and important guidance for their reporting.

Who: An expert panel of conservation technologists and Mongabay’s own conservation tech coverage specialist, Abhi Kidangoor.

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Society of Environmental Journalists

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Thu, Oct 26 - The AI Advantage: How nonprofits can rise to the top using AI

What: In this session, we’ll explore the incredible ways AI is transforming nonprofit operations, covering everything from fundraising to donor engagement, program optimization to impact measurement.  We’ll dive into ChatGPT and how it can benefit your fundraising teams, automation that can free up time in your day, and more AI programs that can enhance the great work done by your fundraising team. We’ll uncover how AI-driven analytics can provide valuable insights into your database, empowering you to make informed decisions and maximize your impact on the communities you serve.

Who: Nejeed Kassam is the CEO and founder of Keela – an impact technology company dedicated to empowering nonprofits with accessible, powerful software.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Charity Villiage

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Fri, Oct 27 - Sustaining Your Long-Form Journalism Career Webinar

What: Learn how to sustain your career through fellowships, editor relationships, strategically choosing assignments, and finding a community. Current and former freelancers will share the reality of making a living while doing meaningful work.

Who: Jeaah Lee, Independent Journalist; Sarah Carr, Independent Journalist; Fernanda Santos, Editor & Leader Digital & Audio; Cerise Castle, Independent Journalist.

When: 11 am, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Institute for Independent Journalists

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Fri, Oct 27 - National NewsLitCamp with Report for America

What: A free professional development experience focusing on essential new literacy topics.

Who: Tiana Woodard of The Boston Globe; Kim Kleman, executive director of Report for America; Middle school librarian Cathy Collins; Becca Savransky, an education reporter at the Idaho Statesman; DeMario Phipps-Smith, NLP’s senior manager of community learning; Tom Rosenstiel, professor at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and more.

When: 8 am – 5 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: News Literacy Project, Report for America

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We ought to live

We ought to live in such a way that our lives wouldn’t make sense if the gospel were not true.  - Dorothy Day

Getting lost

Don't get lost in the fabric of your personal drama.

Status quo Bias

Should you stay or should you go? Status quo bias is our tendency to, when presented with a choice, prefer the current scenario as opposed to making a change. You can account for this natural bias by reversing the situation and the direction of change.

Status quo bias stems from a variety of human tendencies. A natural fear of change, our preference for familiarity, and laziness, all contribute. It's not our friend, either: Status quo bias contributes to many poorly thought decisions (like our tendency to overspend on big purchases).

Consider this: would you take a $13,000 wage increase to relocate to another city? Most people would say no. Yet consider the opposite: If you were living in another city, would you take a $13,000 wage decrease to move back to this one?

You can apply this reversal heuristic to smaller decisions, too. For example, instead of wondering whether you should spend a dollar for a chocolate bar, you could ask yourself whether you'd be willing to receive a dollar for skipping a chocolate bar for the day.

This quick reversal is a simpler version of the Reversal Test, a mental tool philosophers use to account for status quo bias.

Herbert Lui writing in LifeHacker

11 articles about AI & legal issues

Google promises to take the legal heat in users’ AI copyright lawsuits – The Verge

A.I. May Not Get a Chance to Kill Us if This Kills It First – Slate

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI – The Verge

Artists Are Losing the War Against AI – The Atlantic

Some of the resistance among publishers to works generated by A.I. comes from its legal standing: Machine-written text can’t be copyrighted – New York Times

Some argue that authors whose copyrighted works are used to train AI systems have an ownership claim while others say those who use AI as a tool are the legal authors  – Inside Higher Ed 

Microsoft Says It Will Protect Customers from AI Copyright Lawsuits - Bloomberg

Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says -Reuters

Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images – The Verge  

The Authors whose Pirated books are Powering Generative AI – The Atlantic

Inside the Legal Tussle Between Authors and AI: “We’ve Got to Attack This From All Directions” – Vanity Fair  

Can My AI Program Sue? Supreme Court’s ADA Decision May Have the Answer – Security Boulevard  

Don't cry

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss

Problems are Signals

Americans in general have always admired growth. We admire the fastest growing companies and the cities that grew the most in the past decade. Magazines list the national economics that are growing the fastest. Bigger is better and bigger-faster is better still.

There is another kind of growth, which is much harder to measure. Its goal is not an increase in size (or intelligence or sophistication or experience or skill), but simply ripening. We overcome the barrier to growth as development when we are able to view our problems as signals that it is time to let go of the way in which we have been seeing and doing things and initiate a developmental transition.

The barriers to this kind of growth are overcome whenever we stop viewing our flaws and problems as things to be solved or removed and start viewing them as signals. What the problems are, really, are old solutions that have outlived their usefulness. From that point of view, whenever we do away with a problem instead of listening to its message, we trigger a string of events that lands us in trouble.

William Bridges, The Way of Transitions

Don't be afraid

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.  -  H. Jackson Browne

10 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI

A.I. Could Soon Need as Much Electricity as an Entire Country – New York Times

AI becoming sentient is risky, but that’s not the big threat. Here’s what is… - Science Focus

Why humans can't trust AI: You don't know how it works, what it's going to do or whether it'll serve your interests – Japan Today

‘A.I. Obama’ and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok – New York Times 

Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn – Bloomberg

How the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI – The Guardian

Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use – Nature

China AI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed – Semi Analysis

A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology  - 404 Media

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is pouring millions of dollars into combating AI’s dark side – CNBC

6 Free Webinars this Week about Journalism & AI

Mon, Oct 16 - How to Cover Indigenous Stories as a Non-Indigenous Journalist 

What: A panel discussion on how reporters can best cover Indigenous communities and why having Indigenous reporters in newsrooms is essential.

Who: Anna V. Smith is an associate editor at High Country News, Matteo Cimellaro is mixed race journalist of Cree and Settler ancestry, Brittany Guyot was the third recipient of the CAJ/APTN Indigenous Investigative Fellowship and is now an Investigative Reporter with APTN Investigates.

When: 6 pm, Central

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Uproot Project

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Wed, Oct 18 - The NYTimes & the Transformation of Journalism in the Digital Age 

What: Politics & the transformation of journalism in the digital age 

Who: NY Times political correspondent Adam Nagourney & Patt Morrison  

When: 5 pm, Pacific

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Jews United for Democracy and Justice and Community Advocates

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Wed, Oct 18 – Police Intimidation of the Press: The Marion, KS Search & Seizure Outrage

What: Public officials probably don’t miss the watchdog function of the press in light of the violation of press freedom in Kansas earlier this year. And perhaps some of their constituents have forgotten the benefits of a robust Fourth Estate. Violations of both the First and Fourth Amendment Constitutional rights now worry some in the media. Accusations of 'fake news' undermine media credibility and create combativeness by public officials to challenge the legitimacy of a free press.

Who: Walter Smith Randolph is Connecticut Public Broadcasting’s investigative editor; Eric Meyer is the majority owner, editor, and publisher of the Marion County Record in Marion, Kansas; Dean Pagani is a professor of communications at the University of New Haven; Paul Bass has been a reporter and editor in New Haven for 45 years; Caitlin Vogus, a 2010 graduate of Harvard Law School, is the deputy director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

When: 7 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Harvard Law School Association of Massachusetts and the Harvard Club of Kansas City

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Thu, Oct 19 - The Israel - Gaza Conflict: What Journalists Covering War Should Know

What: Journalists on the ground and from afar are reporting on the fast-developing Israel-Gaza war.  What’s important to consider in the coverage? How can you cut through the disinfo?

Who: Multimedia journalist Michael Lipin, who covers international affairs as a Voice of America bridge editor;Steven Youngblood, who is the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: International Center for Journalists

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Thu, Oct 19 - AI for Nonprofits: What You Need to Know

What: A closer look at the latest generation of AI. You'll learn what these tools can do for your mission-focused work and the need to use them in a thoughtful, responsible manner. You'll come away with a better understanding of what AI is, the different kinds of AI that exist, use cases for nonprofits, and thoughtful strategies for this emerging tech. 

Who: Joshua Peskay & Destiny Bowers of RoundTable Technology.

When: 12 pm, Central

Where: Teams

Cost: Free

Sponsor: TechSoup

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Fri, Oct 20 - Covering campaign finance and lobbying

What: The basics of how to cover campaign finance and lobbying.

Who: OpenSecrets' research experts Anna Massoglia, editorial and investigations manager and Pete Quist, deputy research director.

When: 11:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: National press club journalism institute, Open Secrets

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The Bitter Lesson

There’s a famous essay in the field of machine learning known as “The Bitter Lesson,” which notes that decades of research prove that the best way to improve AI systems is not by trying to engineer intelligence but by simply throwing more computer power and data at the problem. The lesson is bitter because it shows that machine scale beats human curation. And the same might be true of the web. Read more at The Verge