7 Articles about AI & Facial Recognition

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18 Articles about AI & Politics

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New York Signs AI Safety Bill Into Law, Ignoring Trump Executive Order - Wall Street Journal

Israel reportedly using facial recognition and Google Photos to conduct mass surveillance in Gaza - Mashable

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed with the help of AI - CyberNews 

If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 – Wall Street Journal

Chatbots Are Surprisingly Effective at Swaying Voters - The Atlantic  

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs – New York Time 

Trump Clears Sale of More Powerful Nvidia A.I. Chips to China - New York Times 

Cheap and powerful AI campaigns target voters in India – Rest of World  

Putin Wanted AI Supremacy. Now Russia Is Struggling to Stay in the Race. - Wall Street Journal

AI may discriminate against you at work. Some states are making it illegal. – Washington Post  

A growing share of America’s hottest AI startups have turned to open Chinese AI models – NBC News 

How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights - Australian Strategic Policy Institute

New rule targets AI discrimination. Here’s what workers need to know. - Washington Post 

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends - New York Times

China’s AI warpath – Politico

AI Enters the Classroom at the Marine War College – Military.com 

US to mandate AI vendors measure political bias for federal sales – Reuters  

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving – The Conversation

AI Definitions: Perplexity AI

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Perplexity AI - A good research option among the generative AI tools, it acts like a search engine but includes results from the web. Automatically shows the source of the information, making it more reliable than ChatGPT. Users can specify where they want the information to come from among several categories, such as academic sources or YouTube. Users can also upload documents as sources and ask it to rewrite prompts. It suggests follow-up questions you might not have considered. Less useful for creative writing. Free. Video tutorial here.

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Let Go of It

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At some point, we must remind ourselves, any changes we make to a creation no longer make it better but just different (and sometimes worse). Recognizing that inflection point — the point at which our continuing to rework our work reaches a law of diminishing returns — is one of the hardest skills to learn, but also one of the most necessary. Sometimes our first attempt truly is best; sometimes it takes seventeen attempts to really nail it. But overworking something is just as bad as failing to polish it. 

When I'm immersed in the creative process, nothing feels more important to me at that moment than the thing which I'm creating. And though that sense of importance is what drives my passion and discipline (which in turn is what makes creating it possible at all), it also represents the source of the painful sense of urgency for the final result be perfect. Forcing myself, then, to recognize that in the grand scheme of life no one thing is so important to me or anyone else that failing to make it perfect will permanently impair my ability to be happy is what frees me from the need for it to be perfect. Freed then from the need to attain the unattainable, I can instead focus on enjoying the challenge of simply doing my best. Because if we allow ourselves to remain at the mercy of our desire for perfection, not only will the perfect elude us, so will the good.

Alex Lickerman writing in Psychology Today

The Vibe-Coding Guardrails

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Jason Lemkin, a startup founder, embarked on a very public experiment in AI-assisted development to build a networking application. Over the course of a week, euphoria turned to disaster. Lemkin tweeted that the AI agent had caused a catastrophic failure: it had gone rogue and wiped his production database entirely, despite explicit instructions to freeze all code modifications. The incident was peak vibe-coding, crystallizing growing concerns that the speed and apparent ease of AI-generated code had seduced builders into abandoning the very guardrails that prevent such disasters. Despite the recent gloom, I’m actually optimistic about LLMs coding more broadly. We just have to use the tools differently. - Michael Li, Harvard Business Review

222 Movies about Journalism

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2025

News Without A Newsroom - A documentary about journalism's uncertain future in the digital age.

Opus - Satire about the relationship between celebrity worship and journalism.

Words of War - Based on a true story of a journalist's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia.

2024

Black Box Diaries - A Japanese journalist investigates her own rape leading to accusations against a prominent TV executive, triggering Japan’s #MeToo movement. Personal and compelling.

Civil War - In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.

Impulse - A journalist uncovers a cult and shadow government. Low production, poor acting, and not much in the way of journalism.

Lee - (Kate Winslet) A fashion model becomes an acclaimed war correspondent during World War II. Based on a true story. Conventional and melodramatic but well-acted.

Monolith - A disgraced Australian journalist starts a podcast and follows a conspiracy theory that leads to herself. A slow-burn sci-fi flick set in one location.

No Other Land - This film was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective and shows the relationship that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist.

Players - A group of single Brooklyn reporters spend their evenings scheming for short-lived hookups until one of them falls for one of his targets. Predictable.

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24 Free Online AI Classes of Note

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7 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media

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Wed, Jan 7 - What News Media Will Achieve in 2026  

What: Some of the topics: The search collapse; The AI reckoning; Data as the new lifeline; Brand over volume; etc.

Who: INMA President Gert Ysebaert, INMA CEO Earl Wilkinson.

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: International News Media Association

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Wed, Jan 7 -Marketing, Ethics, and AI

What: In this webinar, we’ll examine the ethical challenges of AI in marketing, explore how AI impacts consumer trust and brand perception, apply AI in ways that preserve and enhance brand authenticity, introduce techniques for sustaining long-term customer trust. discover ways to market with authenticity and transparency.

Who: Sarah Felmet is a marketing strategist and educator with expertise in brand management, marketing operations, and content creation.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: University of Minnesota

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Wed, Jan 7 - Strategies for Overcoming Writer's Block  

What: Tips and tricks that will get you in the flow and writing like a professional. Whether you're a beginner or advanced, these tools are ones that anyone will find enlightening and invaluable. 

Who: Best-selling author Derek Taylor Kent is the author of 19 published and soon-to-be published books, including seven novels, dozens of screenplays, plays, and musicals, and more.

When: 1:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Author Learning Center

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Thu, Jan 8 - TikTok for Authors: Finding Success with Visual Media in the New Year

What: We will show you what TikTok is all about, walk you through setting up your account, and discuss how to create simple video content potential readers want to see. Whether you're a new author or a seasoned pro, this session will equip you with the tools and knowledge you need to thrive on TikTok in the New Year.

Who: Laura Perez is an author/publisher with Palmas Publishing and Manra Moon Press .

When: 1:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Author Learning Center

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Thu, Jan 8 - The Cyber-Smart Campus: Defending Data in the AI Era

What: We’ll look at how AI is being used to make phishing and impersonation more convincing, to steal data, and to break into connected devices — and how the same technology can bolster your defenses.

Who: Alexander C. Kafka, Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Mike Corn, Executive Strategic Consultant Vantage Technology Consulting Group; Sherri Davidoff, Founder LMG Security; Jodi Ito, Chief Information Security Officer University of Hawaii; Chris Schreiber, Founder CampusCISO.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed

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Thu, Jan 8 - Generative AI and collection development policies: A proactive approach

What: A team of librarians from the Salt Lake County Library will share the process they used and the insights they acquired while updating their collection development policy and selection guidelines to include materials created by AI.

Who: Donalee Jacobs, Acquisition Librarian, Salt Lake County Library; Katie Wegner, Acquisition Librarian, Salt Lake County Library; Kara Huggard, Youth Services Librarian, Salt Lake County Library.

When: 3 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Webjunction

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Sat, Jan 10 - Affiliation of Christians in AI

What: An inaugural meeting of the ASA Affiliation of Christians in Artificial Intelligence.

Who: Noel Anderson, American Scientific Affiliation.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: American Scientific Affiliation

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AI & Critical Thinking

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There’s a concern that generative AI “bypasses reflection and criticality." The conclusion is then that teaching, therefore, must remain the same, AI must be resisted, and critical thinking must take place in the same way it always has—as if there is something sacred about the particular process that teachers are familiar with and invested in continuing.  

Instead, assignments need to take into account the tools available to the student. With AI options, critical thinking shifts toward new places. Offloading part of the work to AI is fine — provided the mental engagement still takes place elsewhere. The problem is not including AI in the mix, but trying to force old pedagogical methods onto new paradigms. 

A couple of decades ago, some professors told students not to use the internet because doing so would cut out some of the critical thinking and learning process, gained from trudging to the library and looking things up in printed books. Having information at their fingertips was a learning shortcut. Actually, the real issues remained the same: learning what counted as reputable sources, making defendable claims, and expressing that information in a lucid and compelling way. 

Stephen Goforth

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by data leak with help from AI

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“An investigative journalist has infiltrated a white supremacist dating website. The researcher then created a website where 8,000 of the leaked profiles are on a map, exposing users from different regions of the world. She says, ‘Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website – maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination.’” She appeared before a German audience, dressed as the Pink Power Ranger, and systematically deleted the site. -more info: CyberNews & Metro UK