All the Time
/Preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words -St. Francis of Assisi (who is celebrated on Oct. 4, the traditional anniversary of his death in 1226)
It’s Training me to be More Like it
/“I will catch myself when I’m writing where I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I shouldn’t have even written that. I should have just let AI do it because it sounds the same,” he says. “It’s trained me to be more like it, instead of the reverse.” -Katherine Bindley writing in the Wall Street Journal
There is more to life
/There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi, born Oct. 2, 1869
28 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI
/The body image battle is real in 2026, but the bodies may not be – Axios
How would AI actually kill all humans? Here are the top 5 scenarios – The Conversation
Behind the Curtain: AI titans' biggest private fear - Axios
AI doesn’t need a conscience. It needs a leash - Washington Post
AI assessors says current science hasn't caught up to the safety measures people want - NPR
AI Companies’ New Plan to Keep Themselves From Destroying Everything - The Atlantic
The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech - MIT Tech Review
Will A.I. Kill Us? Can It Hack My Bank Account? Your A.I. Questions Answered - New York Times
Why are there concerns AI could threaten humanity, and how real are they? – BBC
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose - New York Times
AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues – MIT Tech Review
They hacked a TikTok user’s camera, with help from free AI – Washington Post
Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons – Wired
AI has transformed the Pentagon’s aging networks into a national security risk – Washington Post
A.I. Queries From Abroad Raise Fears of a Biological Weapons Race – New York Times
Despite police department ban, facial recognition technology lingers in Milwaukee’s criminal justice system – Wisconsin Watch
Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says – Associated Press
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons – New York Times
Behind the Curtain: The AI twilight zone – Axios
Both Democrats and Republicans Are Increasingly Worried About AI's Environmental Impact – TIME
A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click – New York Times
AI hysteria jumps the shark – Washington Post
Welcome to the Age of AI Crime and Punishment – Bloomberg
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears – Wall Street Journal
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. – New York Times
Man Used Poisoned Google AI Overviews to Trick Women Into Thinking He Was an NFL Player, FBI Says – Futurism
AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find – The Conversation
The AI Backlash Gets Professional – The Atlantic
AI Definitions: Stealth Crawler
/Stealth Crawler (AI crawlers) – This type of web crawler scrapes content from sites, often ignoring whether a site wants them to do so or not. Stealth crawlers may disguise themselves as ordinary visitors, making it hard for publishers to identify and stop them. Since stealth crawlers don’t identify themselves, the traffic could come from an AI company or a company mining data it can resell. Publishers are asking for laws that would require AI crawlers to disclose their identity and purpose. Critics say these laws are too broad—that crawlers often benefit the public by facilitating academic research, investigative reporting, etc. For example, Meta stopped researchers from using automated tools that studied misinformation on Facebook. Observers point out that blocking AI crawlers can make sites less visible—preventing them from showing up in AI summaries and answers may be similar to blocking Google crawlers, which would keep a site from appearing in Google search results. Some observers believe scraping has become a billion-dollar industry.
11 Articles from Sept 2026 about Data Science & AI
/From Words to Vectors: What Happens in Between?
The 3 Roles of Context for AI Agents
Your AI Assistant Wrote the Code. Who Checked the Defaults?
Why You Think Like a Bayesian but Were Taught Like a Frequentist
Coding Agents Don't Need Longer History — They Need Intent Continuity
A Beginner’s Guide to World Models
The future of Earth observation: Private satellites and AI bring benefits but also pose risks
A visual guide to how graph neural networks work under the hood
How to Work with AI Coding Agents A practical guide to getting better code, not just more code
We're Talking Like Chatbots Now
/People are spending so much time with AI that they’re adopting chatbots’ favorite phrases in conversation, Slacks, emails and texts. Some call them LLM’isms, others refer to it as “Claude speak.” -Wall Street Journal
To be Trusted
/To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. –George MacDonald
18 (mostly free & one-hour) Journalism Courses about Audio, Video, & Various Topics
/Journalism: Audio & Video
Clear, Strong Writing for Broadcast Journalism $10.
Digging Deeper Into Broadcast Journalism
Powerful Writing: Leverage Your Video and Sound
Writing for the Ear (Five-part course)
Journalism Courses on Various Topics
Ethics of Journalism Build or refine your process for making ethical decisions $25.00
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values $10.
Make Design More Inclusive: Defeat Unconscious Bias in Visuals
22 Articles about AI’s impact on College Faculty & Administrators
/Higher Ed’s AI Integration Overhyped, New Data Shows – Inside Higher Ed
As the coding boom fades, AI is forcing colleges and computer science grads to adjust – Fast Company
Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
An M.I.T. Report Warns A.I. Is Causing ‘Cognitive Surrender.’ Universities Are in a Bind. – New York Times
Congress Crawls Toward Higher-Ed AI Regulation – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Report: Student Protections Haven’t Kept Up With Higher Ed’s Adoption of AI – Inside Higher Ed
Higher Education Does Not Need More AI Tools but Better AI Experiences – Campus Technology
It could be a long time before independent research emerges on learning outcomes. – Inside Higher Ed
Harvard College’s Dean: ‘Everyone Is Using AI All the Time for Everything’ – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The big college major rethink – Axios
Can AI Help Colleges Reach Struggling Students Earlier? – Inside Higher Ed
The Academic-Integrity Council Can’t Keep Up With AI – Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI Slop Is a Tenure Problem, Not Just a Tech Problem – Inside Higher Ed
How ‘Chaos’ Surrounding AI Can Sink a College Presidency - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI – Rest of World
Does Your College Need a Librarian for AI? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The ‘Nonexistent’ Research on AI’s Benefits for Education - Inside Higher Ed
Colleges Are Building A.I. Degrees, Hoping Students Will Come – New York Times
A New ‘AI-First’ College Aims to Offer Cheaper, Employer-Friendly Degrees – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Half of Campus Tech Leaders Question AI’s ROI – Inside Higher Ed
Spelman College Names an A.I. Expert as Its New President – New York Times
AI Is a ‘Wicked Problem.’ That’s the University’s Specialty. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Don’t form strong beliefs about AI (yet)
/Don’t form strong beliefs about AI (yet). Even in the frontier labs, no one knows what the future holds. Those outside the labs don’t even know what the present holds, because they haven’t seen the most advanced models, which haven’t been released. If you are sure you know what will happen, or what we should do about it, you are nurturing what writer and satirist Ambrose Bierce called “a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.” - Megan McArdle writing in the Washington Post
Throw your heart
/Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.
24 Recent Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship
/One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year – Washington Post
AI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds – Research Professional News
What if AI can make Science Better, not just Faster? - Bradley Max Segal
AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done – Nature
The AI Discourse in Academia is Toxic. It Doesn’t have to be.- Ran Blekhman
Can researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas? – Science Business
Who gets credit in the AI era? OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate – Nature
AI conference drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline – The Decoder
Journal editor developing system to weed out authors “submitting AI-assisted papers they ‘don’t understand.' - Nihar Shah
Use and Effects of LLMs in Peer Review: A Randomized Experiment and Survey at ICML 2026 – arXiv
Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals – Futurism
South Korean Government New Guidelines mandate of AI Disclosure in Research – Chosun
Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
All corners of academia will soon be flooded with AI-generated research - Giorgio Gilestro
Misconduct case dropped against AI expert after claims of AI use in recent book – Retraction Watch
AI in peer review should be a second reader, not a judge – KevinMD
Three-quarters of researchers unsure what use of AI to disclose - Research Professional News
The “synthetic validity” problem in AI-generated science – PNAS
A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks – Retraction Watch
It could be a long time before independent research emerges on how AI should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes. – Inside Higher Ed
Scholars are divided over how much AI use is acceptable. - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Analysis of predatory journals using AI generated papers – Springer
AI Paper Mills Now Taint One in Ten Cancer Studies: France Cuts Big Publisher Ties – Tech Times
Why funders should investigate if AI is making research more conservative – Science Business
Professors & Students are in a Bind
/Professors and students are often in a bind about what they should do: Use more A.I. to stay relevant, or dial back to preserve learning and thinking? Getting answers from a bot can create the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. at the first hint of struggle. At the same time, the potential of these technologies to augment work across campus is immense. -New York Times
Those who turn back
/Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but they who persevere remember the adventure. -Milo L. Arnold
15 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Sept 28 - How to Maximize Google Business Profile Traffic in the Age of AI
What: Here’s what we’ll cover: The new rules shaping Google Business Profiles; What you need to know about the new GBP verification process; How AI is influencing local search visibility; Actionable ways to protect and grow your local traffic.
Who: Brad Schaeffer, Global Partnerships, Google; Anna Rindels, Senior Optimization Strategist, Alchemer.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: BrightTALK
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechTarget
Tue, Sept 29 - Artificial intelligence and journalism: audiences, guidelines and products
What: Renowned journalists, scholars and representatives of European tech companies share insights and best practices on the smart use of AI in journalistic work.
Who: Hans Brorsen, Valid; Morana Perić, DeepL; Manuel Herranz, Pangeanic; J. Alex Dalessio, eQualitie; Dren Gërguri, University of Prishtina; Amina Mahović Balkan, Investigative Reporting Regional Network; Hannes Cools, University of Amsterdam; Nisrine Salameh, International Federation of Journalists.
When: 3 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom.
Tue, Sept 29 - How are newsrooms rethinking election coverage?
What: The panel will explore how election coverage is evolving, from newsroom planning and technology to audience expectations and reaching local communities, sharing practical lessons and approaches that news organizations can apply to their own coverage.
Who: David Scott, Vice President of AP Elections; Josh Lawson, OpenAI; Kimbriell Kelly, Chicago Public Media; Maritza L. Félix of Conecta Arizona; Arnon Mishkin, leads the Fox News Decision Team.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Associated Press
Tue, Sept 29 - Diagnose Before You Optimize: Using Insights and AI to Grow Publisher Revenue
What: This session will focus on one of the biggest questions facing publishers today: when revenue is under pressure, how do you identify what is actually causing the problem before deciding what to optimize? The session will also examine how AI can support faster diagnosis, surface meaningful insights and help revenue teams move more quickly toward informed action.
Who: Olly Aulakh, Chief Revenue Officer, Opti Digital; Rob Beeler, CEO & Founder of Beeler.Tech.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Local Media Association
Tue, Sept 29 - Everyday Applications of AI in Learning
What: Industry experts will share how organizations are putting AI to work across the learning lifecycle. Learn practical approaches for streamlining content development, supporting personalized learning and improving the learner experience. Whether you are exploring AI for the first time or building on existing efforts, this session will offer insights to help you apply it more effectively in your day-to-day work.
Who: Nolan T Hout, Senior Vice President of Growth, Infopro Learning; Jessica Peck, Senior Sales Content Manager, Allego; Dan Doherty, Senior Sales Engineer, Allego; Kim Merritt, Founder and President, The URL dr; Ankit Petkar, Instructional Designer, CommLab India; Vineet Unnithan, Instructional Designer, CommLab India; Debbie Richards, Technology Consultant, Creative Interactive Ideas.
When: 11 am – 3:45 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Industry
Tue, Sept 29 - When Sources Don’t Tell The Truth
What: How journalists can report ethically and effectively on false statements by politicians or other sources.
Who: New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker; Stephen J. Adler, the director of NYU’s Ethics and Journalism Initiative and former Reuters editor-in-chief.
When: 12:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Eventbrite
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Ethics & Journalism Initiative
Tue, Sept 29 - Covering Midterms and Beyond
What: Learn how to cover elections with skill, speedy and clarify while still listening to voters, pushing past misinformation and getting to the heart of what matters to your audience.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members
Sponsor: Investigative Reporters and Editors
Tue, Sept 29 - How to Reduce Downtime and Improve Operations With AI
What: You'll learn: Ways to reduce downtime and improve operational efficiency; How to connect information across systems without disrupting existing workflows; Lessons learned from applying AI in complex, mission-critical environments.
Who: Maddie Wolf, General Manager & Vice President, Operations, Legion Intelligence.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLopp
Tue, Sept 29 - Human Review vs. Verified Pipelines: What Catches Bugs in the Age of AI Code
What: Why code review is breaking down under AI-generated volume and what a pipeline that verifies every deployment against a defined set of rules actually looks like in practice, regardless of whether a human, an AI agent, or a very determined intern wrote the code.
Who: Viktor Farcic, New Stack; John Bristowe, Principal Developer Advocate, Octopus Deploy.
When: 2:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The New Stack
Tue, Sept 29 - AI and Accessibility: Passing the Scan, Failing the User
What: We will discuss how to bring intentional, human-centered accessibility practices into AI-assisted workflows, using AI to support learning and development without letting it decide what "accessible enough" means. You'll leave with a practical way to evaluate AI-generated content, know when to trust automated checkers (and when not to), and keep people at the center of your design decisions.
Who: Sarah Mercier, MBA, CPACC CEO, Build Capable.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Wed, Sept 30 – Media co-ops: How journalists and news organizations are building together
What: More journalists, creators, and communities are experimenting with cooperative models. These efforts help members share resources, build sustainable organizations, and develop new approaches to producing and supporting media.
Who: Noémi Giszpenc, Executive Director, Keystone Development Center; Brandy Jensen, Culture editor, Defector; Steve Mellon, former NewsGuild striker & Staff photographer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Nicole Washington, Program Manager, Shared Media Services Project at Start.Coop; Eli Zeger, Writer, editor & researcher at Concordia University in Montréal.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Eventbrite
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Cooperative Media
Wed, Sept 30 - Digital security for investigative journalists
What: This online safety workshop will provide investigative journalists with techniques and tools that can help keep their data, identity, and reporting safe and effective. Attendees will learn about how to assess their digital threat landscape, understand their digital toolbox options, protect sensitive data, and securely communicate with sources.
Who: Christopher Jones at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Committee to Protect Journalists
Wed, Sept 30 - Codex bootcamp 201: Team workflows
What: This intermediate session is designed for builders ready to move beyond individual tasks and establish collaborative development practices. You’ll leave with practical patterns for coordinating longer-running work, sharing context across a team, and using Codex more consistently across projects.
Who: Marcus Stallworth, Builder ADM, OpenAI; Palash Sushil Matey, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI; Gaëlle El Feghali, AI Deployment Manager, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Wed, Sept 30 - The Human Half of Agentic AI
What: Learn how approval gates can work when marketing runs around the clock—and human judgment becomes the job, instead of the bottleneck.
Who: Rafa Flores, Chief Product and Growth Officer, Treasure; Sam Kwapong, Lead Product Manager, Treasure AI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TreasureAI
Thu, Oct 1 - Beyond the Prompt: Building Repeatable AI Workflows for Nonprofit Fundraisers
What: How ChatGPT Work can help teams review source materials, develop a campaign plan, turn a proven process into a reusable Skill, and prepare recurring campaign updates. The goal is to spend less time on repeatable work while keeping human judgment, empathy, trust, and donor relationships at the center.
Who: Alex Nawar, Head of OpenAI Academy, OpenAI.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
AI Definitions: Tokenmaxxing
/Tokenmaxxing - Maximizing the use of AI by using as many tokens as possible. Some companies have treated this high consumption as a status symbol for productivity. However, the practice used up AI budgets quickly and has fallen out of favor in the corporate world.
Students & Ideas
/The university is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas. -Clark Kerr
26 Surprising Things AI can do now
/FAA launches AI tool to assist air traffic control at major D.C.-area airports – Washington Post
K-Pop Is Betting on AI and Robots. Will Fans Buy It? – Wall Street Journal
How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose – New York Times
Satellite data combined with machine learning gives meteorologists new tools to predict deadly floods sooner. – The Verge
AI can now control fusion plasma faster than humans can react – Science Daily
Will A.I. Kill Us? Can It Hack My Bank Account? Your A.I. Questions Answered – New York Times
Mastercard Joins Visa in Letting AI Bots Do Your Shopping – Wall Street Journal
Single brain implant enables people with paralysis to speak and convey upper-body gestures simultaneously via a virtual avatar - National Institutes of Health
Listing sites are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns. – New York Times
Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now ‘talk’ to each other, make new discoveries – Stanford
Philosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose – Daily Nous
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ – New York Times
This may be the first academic profession to see its work taken over by AI – Washington Post
Google’s New Phone Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That? – New York Times
Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices – Tech Crunch
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors – Nature
A.I. Is Everywhere in China. See For Yourself. – New York Times
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say – Scientific American
This $150 lifetime AI-powered app listens while you play piano and coaches you in real time - Mashable
I was an AI skeptic — until I started using it to identify plants – Tom’s Guide
Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News – Wired
Baby’s first A.I. surveillance will track sleep and other data for young children – New York Times
AI Can Now Create Viruses From Scratch. What Happens When Someone Uses It for Harm? - Popular Mechanics
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack – ABC
A New Class of Cuddly Mascots Is Selling Everything From AI to Tap Water – Wall Street Journal
An A.I. was able to create 16 viruses not found in nature after scientists trained it on DNA libraries – New York Times
Making Peace
/Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman