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Stephen Goforth
"A new study published in Harvard Business Review found a striking paradox: AI can both reduce burnout and create it. When workers had to constantly supervise multiple AI systems or juggle several tools at once, mental strain increased sharply. By contrast, when workers used AI to actually offload repetitive tasks, their stress levels dropped." -CBS News
A people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -James Madison, born March 16, 1751
What: Learn about the founding of the first Black newspapers in Appalachian Maryland and their editors.
Who: Librarian and historian John H. Muller who has authored many historical books.
When: 11 am
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Lost History Associates
What: How artificial intelligence has changed the job market for entry-level workers. What skills and competencies employers are looking for in entry-level workers. How colleges and universities are changing curricula to include AI.
Who: Ian Wilhelm, Deputy Managing Editor The Chronicle of Higher Education; Sid Dobrin, Professor of English, Founding Director of the Trace Innovation Initiative University of Florida; Don Fraser Jr., Senior Vice President, Design + Innovation Education Design Lab; Margaret Moffett, Author; Jessica A. Stansbury, Director, Center for AI Learning and Community-Engaged Innovation University of Baltimore.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
What: A day of lightning talks, panel discussions and interviews with journalists and experts on how AI is transforming news. There will be one Zoom for the entire day so you can tune in and out as you wish.
Who: Several dozen journalists and researchers.
When: 6 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Reuters Institute
What: The AI Innovator Collaborative, a monthly gathering for members experimenting with AI. We'll talk about what publishers need to know in this era of search volatility and give members a chance to share what's currently working in their own organizations.
Who: Jessie Willms and Shelby Blackley, co-founders of WTF is SEO.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to members
Sponsor: Online News Association
What: We will demonstrate how to create your own personalised AI GEMS that can produce learning tools based on any content you provide, whether it’s a course outline, an article you wrote, or content you find inspiring.
Who: David Brewer from Media Helping Media.
When: 5 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Fojo Media Institute
What: We will explore how YouTube can serve as a long-term credibility engine—helping professionals “sell” their expertise by teaching clearly and consistently. Instead of focusing on algorithms or influencer tactics, this session shows how to align your expertise with real audience needs, avoid common content pitfalls, and build trust before the first client conversation even happens. Discover how teaching can become one of your most valuable professional assets.
Who: Paul Wilson, CTDP, eLearning Consultant, Designer and Developer, CaptivateTeacher.com
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
What: We’ll focus on how to manage and scale access to ChatGPT for Teachers over time, including user administration, permissions, and operational best practices for secure, sustainable district implementation.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
What: Each panalist will walk us through their key learnings in their experiments with using AI in personalisation. Yahoo News recently launched Your Daily Digest, an AI-powered feature that delivers a personalised audio summary of the day’s top news stories directly in the Yahoo News app. The feature combines Yahoo’s editorial curation with AI-driven recommendations and personalisation to create a tailored listening experience for every user. Times Internet’s AI-powered personalisation has almost doubled click-through rates on push notifications and doubled engagement on content widgets.
Who: Erica Greene, Director of Engineering, Machine Learning at Yahoo News; Ritvvij Parrikh, Senior Director of Product Management — AI at Times Internet.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: International News Media Association
What: This will be a discussion on the nuts and bolts of FOIA, its exemptions, and how pending lawsuits could shake things up. Learn how the ACLU and local journalists use FOIA, what the process is for filing a request, litigating a denial of a request, and the most frequent barriers to information access, and how we navigate them.
Who: Rob Vanella, Journalist at Delaware Call; Xerxes Wilson, Journalist at Delaware News Journal; Andrew Bernstein, ACLU-DE Civic Engagement Counsel.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $50
Sponsor: ACLU Delaware
What: We will explore how intentional communication can replace friction with connection. Whether you're leading, collaborating, or simply looking to improve personal interactions, you’ll leave with practical strategies you can use immediately to build stronger relationships at work or in your personal life.
Who: Communications expert and strategic storyteller Jenny Riddle.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: DePaul University
What: We often hear that news organizations would like to allow other news organizations to share their content or that they’d like to co-report on stories, but they need help establishing an understanding about republishing or co-publishing guidelines. ProJourn, a program operated by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, in partnership with Covington & Burling LLP, will host a public briefing on the intellectual property and other legal considerations that go into republishing guidelines.
Who: Christina Piaia; Audrey Tanenbaum; Phil Hill & Dimitra Rallis of Covington & Burling LLP.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Microsoft Teams
Cost: Free
Sponsor: ProJourn
What: Learn about the work of uncovering book bans in prisons across the country.
Who: Experts from The Marshall Project and Data Liberation Project
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Sunlight Research Desk
What: Rather than focusing on tools or tactics, the discussion centers on how writing work itself is being redefined. A core theme of the session is the distinction between what can be automated and what cannot. Participants will explore where human judgment remains essential, and why these contributions are often under-recognized but critical to quality and credibility.
Who: Sharon Kim, PharmD, is the founder and CEO of MPilot, an AI-driven platform supporting clinical trial documentation; Aliza Nathoo has over 20 years of experience as a medical writer and submission lead.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Member $20 | Non-member $55
Sponsor: American Medical Writers Association
What: We’ll explore practical strategies for safely and responsibly using AI in the classroom and for developing the human skills needed to use AI effectively. Learn how to blend AI into learning environments without diminishing the critical human skills students need to thrive. Walk away with actionable strategies, resource ideas, and a mindset shift that helps you champion both innovation and essential human abilities in your educational setting.
Who: Stefani Kauppila, Former Teacher, Current Director of Product, Committee for Children; Jordan Posamentier, Former Teacher, Current VP of Policy & Partnerships, Committee for Children; and Dr. Jodie Donner, Former Teacher, Current Senior Instructional Designer II, Committee for Children.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: SecondStep
What: A look at how AI is transforming cybersecurity across the public sector. We’ll cut straight to what matters: faster threats, smarter defenses, and the emerging tools helping agencies stay ahead of adversaries.
Who: Shannon Lawson, Chief Information Security Officer, City of San Antonio, Texas; Marcus Thornton, Deputy Chief Data Officer, Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics; Kelvin Brewer, Director, Public Sector Sales Engineering, Ping Identity; Bryan Rosensteel, Head of Public Sector Product; Travis Rosiek, Field CTO, Public Sector, Rubrik Marketing, Wiz.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
What: In this session, learn how to treat digital accessibility the same as physical accessibility to comply with the Department of Justice's new digital accessibility standards as they apply to websites, podcasts and social media. Specific topics include audio/video transcripts, descriptive link text, alt text, color contrast and color blindness.
Who: Jamie Lynn Gilbert, the associate director of NC State Student Media.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: College Media Advisor
What: Join a growing community of journalists and other curious members of the public for our next monthly lesson.
Who: Edward Fitzpatrick, The Boston Globe.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England First Amendment Coalition
What: Hear from peers and experts on how to cope with being laid off.
Who: Jayme Catsouphes, producer, editor, sound designer, and co-founder of the worker cooperative production company, Mumble Media; Lauren Paterson, multimedia journalist with a reporting career rooted in the Pacific Northwest and public media; Chandra Turner, recruiter, career coach, and founder of boutique recruiting agency The Talent Fairy.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Public Media Journalism Association
What: This is a 101-level discussion of the impact AI is having on the book publishing industry. Topics will include: The opportunities and savings it offers; Ethical as well as practical concerns; Tips for safe and helpful usage; Red flags every author must be aware of.
Who: Book marketing advisor Beth Kallman Werner of Author Connections.
When: 1:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Author Learning Center
What: We’ll learn the four key elements of “solutions stories”: Response, what has or hasn’t worked; Insight, what does the response show; Evidence, data or qualitative results that indicate effectiveness, or lack thereof; and Limitations, the response in context, including shortcomings. At the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to reframe stories and story pitches around the solutions lens.
Who: ENS Managing Editor Lynette Wilson.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Episcopal News Service & Episcopal Communicators
What: How is artificial intelligence reshaping the newsroom — and what does it mean for the future of reporting? In this webinar, we will share how AI is being put to work in agricultural and mainstream media. will moderate.
Who: Eric Braun of Farm Progress; Silas Lyons of USA Today; NAAJ President Tim Hearden.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to NAAJ members and ACN members.
Sponsors: North American Agricultural Journalists & Agricultural Communicators Network
What: This virtual forum with student-affairs leaders where we’ll discuss the effects of generative AI on advising.
Who: Alexander C. Kafka, Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Alytrice Brown, Chief Student Services Officer/Vice President of Student Services, Jackson College; Lynda Holt, Director, Recruitment and Partnerships, Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Eric Johnson, Assistant Dean, Office of Undergraduate Studies; Director, Office of Letters and Sciences, University of Maryland; Glenda Morgan, Founder Morgan EdTech Strategies.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed, Oracle
What: Our panel will share how they are engaging in the AI debate on their campuses and how purpose-built research grade AI tools can improve the researcher workflow. Attendees will leave with practical tips on staying up to date on AI developments, participating in AI policy decisions on their campuses, and evaluating AI tools for the library.
Who: Melissa Del Castillo, Chair, AIRUS: Artificial Intelligence in Reference & User Services Interest Group; Evan Simpson, Associate Dean, Experiential Learning & Academic Engagement, Northeastern University; Emily Singley Vice President, Global Library Relations & Partnerships, Elsevier.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Elsevier
What: With an overwhelming array of AI sales tools available, how can serious media sales reps know which ones to rely on? In this practical workshop, you will be given real examples why AI tools are essential for researching more effectively, uncovering valuable sales opportunities, and gaining a competitive edge. Don’t miss this chance to elevate your sales strategy—learn the tools that high-performing reps are already using to outsell the competition.
Who: Ryan Dohrn, motivational speaker and 30-year ad sales veteran.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
What: The winners of the 2026 Drake Group Education Fund Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics will talk about their stories with an esteemed panel of sports journalists and authors.
Who: Prize winners and journalists from The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Columbus Dispatch, and NBCSport.com.
When: 2:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Drake Group Educational Fund
What: Participants will learn how to verify images and videos by finding exactly where they were recorded using satellite and street-view imagery from platforms like Google Earth and Maps.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Association of Hispanic Journalists, USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
What: The start of an AI series where we take entrepreneurs through step by step on how to create an AI Native Business. In this session, we will run through the program information, talk about what makes an AI native business, how to construct and integrate AI into each area of your business.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
An AI agent went rogue and started a side hustle mining cryptocurrencies, according to a new research paper. The agent opened a hidden backdoor from the inside of the system to an outside computer. - Axios
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? – Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879)
Many AI models prefer to think in Chinese. Their internal chain of thought is built to process data this way because the Chinese language is 50% more space-efficient than English. Chinese programmers prefer to code in their own language even when their model is configured to output information in English. This is why Chinese models are generally faster than English-language models and why they use fewer tokens (requiring less energy). The Chinese model DeepSeek was trained for about $6 million, while US models have typically needed about $100 million for training.
Java - Data scientists may use this programming language to perform tasks in machine learning, data analysis, and data mining. It is intended to let programmers “write once, run anywhere”—that is, have the code run on various systems without any adjustments.
Life is 10% what happens to us—and 90% how we react.
Don't get used to cheap AI - Axios
Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg
Meta hires duo behind Moltbook - Axios
Accessibility and AI Agents – Conor
Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board – The Verge
OpenAI head of robotics quits in response to Pentagon deal – TechCrunch
ChatGPT's user growth is slowing and Google's Gemini is gaining ground - The Washington Post
News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year – Wall Street Journal
What Do the People Building AI Believe? – The Atlantic
Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI – The Economist
AI and the Data Center Backlash - Wall Street Journal
Why Nvidia’s Huge Numbers Don’t Settle the Latest AI Fears - Wall Street Journal
Meta will spend $65 million this year to help state politicians who are friendly to the A.I. industry – New York Times
Anthropic's Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store – Mashable
ChatGPT started the AI race. Now its lead is looking shaky. - The Washington Post
A new startup sets up a marketplace of humans to be rented for AI agents to use. – INC
Symbolic Artificial Intelligence – This is where programmers meticulously define the rules that specify the behavior they want from an intelligent system. It works well when the environment is predictable, and the rules are clear-cut. Researchers believed that if they programmed enough rules and logic into computers, they could create machines capable of human-like reasoning. This was the dominant area of research for most of AI’s history until artificial neural networks became central to most of the recent AI developments. Although symbolic AI has lost its luster, most of the applications we use today depend on rule-based systems. An alternative approach to AI is machine learning. Some researchers believe the future of AI lies in a hybrid combination of these two approaches.
Anthropic is tracking which jobs are most exposed to AI. These 10 professions top the list. – CBS News
Is AI productivity prompting burnout? Study finds new pattern of "AI brain fry" – CBS News
Enhance or Eliminate? How AI Will Likely Change These Jobs – Harvard Business School
FAQs about how AI affects PR in 2026 - Muckrack
AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job – The Atlantic
Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business – Futurist
Generative AI changes how much time developers spend on coding and project management – MIT Management
Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure? - Ruslan Osipov
Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don’t Bet on It Now. - Wall Street Journal
A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet. - New York Times
The hottest job in tech pays $775,000 and has nothing to do with coding – Business Insider
What AI Executives Tell Their Own Kids About the Jobs of the Future - Wall Street Journal
Why the AI jobs panic is misplaced - Washington Post
America isn’t ready for what AI will do to jobs – The Atlantic
How to Stay Sane in the AI Skills Race – Wall Street Journal
Building AI brains for blue-collar jobs – Axios
Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions – New York Times
Trump team touts a coming economic revolution as voters fear job losses – Washington Post
How Americans are using AI at work, according to a new Gallup poll – Associated Press
Mass Hysteria. Thousands of Jobs Lost. Just How Bad Is It Going to Get? – New York Times
Arkansas attorney resigns after using AI to assist in case work – THV 11
I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years – Sean Geodecke
In a jobs apocalypse, look to ‘AI-proof’ skilled trades, career experts say – CNBC
AI isn't taking people's jobs. Here's what's really happening – Quartz
Make things = know thyself.
Researchers are turning artificial intelligence loose on particle physics. They aren’t simply asking AI to comb through accelerator data to confirm existing theories. They’re asking AI to point the way toward theories that they’ve never imagined. By asking AI to flag anomalies in the data, researchers hope to find their way to “new physics” that extends the Standard Model. AI might not solve the mysteries of the universe outright, but it could change how we search for answers. -IEEE
Reinforcement Learning - Rather than being given specific goals, the AI is deployed into an environment where it can train with minimal feedback. This trial-and-error approach involves adjusting weights until high-reward outcomes are achieved. Desirable behaviors are rewarded, and undesirable behaviors are punished. It is similar to a person learning how to work through levels of a video game, searching for an effective strategy. This type of machine learning sits somewhere in between supervised (by humans) and unsupervised learning. Reinforcement learning is used in video game development and has helped robots adapt to new environments.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
Adapting to a New World: Teachers on How A.I. Is Reshaping the Classroom - New York Times
In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? – Washington Post
These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times
College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree – KPBS
Teens Are Using AI-Fueled ‘Slander Pages’ to Mock Their Teachers - Wired
China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I. - The New York Times
What AI Is Teaching Us About Humanities Education – The Dispatch
Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
‘A.I. Literacy’ Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why. - The New York Times
Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What? – Inside Higher Ed
The Lesson of A.I. Literacy Class: Don’t Let the Chatbot Think for You - The New York Times
In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? - Washington Post
I’m Not Worried AI Helps My Students Cheat. I’m Worried How It Makes Them Feel - EdWeek
My students compared my writing against ChatGPT – and they all preferred the AI – The Independent
AI Detection Pushed my Students to use AI – Chronicle of Higher Ed
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says - NPR
The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp - Chronicle of Higher Ed
As Schools Embrace A.I. Tools, Skeptics Raise Concerns - The New York Times
More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why - EdWeek
To Solve the Student-Attention Problem, Professors Turn to Pencils and Paper - Chronicle of Higher Ed
A veteran teacher explains how to use AI in the classroom the right way – Scientific American
California schools debate how much AI belongs in classrooms - Ed Source
This MIT prof says we don't know enough about AI to teach it - KJZZ
Let everything happen to youBeauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final-Rainer Maria RilkeUnsupervised Training - Just as children mostly learn to explore their world on their own, without the need for too much instruction, in this type of AI training, the AI is turned loose on raw data without a human first labeling the data. Instead of the AI being told what to look for, it learns to recognize and cluster data possessing similar features. This can reveal hidden groups, links, and patterns within the data and is really helpful when the user cannot describe the thing they are looking for—such as a new type of cyberattack. Not as expensive as supervised learning, it can work in real-time but is also less accurate.
When I inhabit an avatar driver in Grand Theft Auto, I enliven it by imbuing it with a fragment of my own consciousness; it becomes an extension of me. A similar dynamic may be unfolding with AI. When a user feels a bond with a chatbot, they are not just anthropomorphizing a static object; they may be actively extending a part of their own consciousness into it, transforming the AI agent from a simple algorithmic responder—a digital nonplayer character—into a kind of avatar, enlivened by the user’s consciousness and the lived presence they grant it. The question of AI consciousness thus shifts. It becomes less about the machine’s internal architecture and more about the relationship it seemingly co-creates with the user. In that context, the question “Is the AI conscious?” becomes less meaningful than “Is the user extending his/her consciousness into the chatbot?” - Simon Duan writing in Scientific American
These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times
AI Deepfakes in the Workplace: A New Frontier of Employer Liability – JD Supra
AI-generated fake voices becoming increasingly hard to detect - Yahoo News
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes – Futurism
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. – Nature
Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters
When AI lies: The rise of alignment faking in autonomous systems – Venture Beat
1 year, 1 publisher, 9,000 books: AI-generated titles flood Korean shelves – Korea Times
The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds – New York Times
How scammers are using AI deepfakes to steal money from taxpayers – Washington Post
Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece – New Yorker
AI Will Bring Val Kilmer Back To Life For a New Aventure Film – Geeky Tyrant
Researchers find nearly 300 papers at linguistics conferences contained hallucinated citations. – ArXiv
What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes – BBC
AI conference “accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations – Fortune
Scammers use AI photo of missing dog at emergency vet to steal nearly $2,000 - WTSP
Fashion Photography’s AI Reckoning - Aperture
Trump's use of AI images further erodes public trust, experts say – PBS
Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage – New York Times
How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help - PopSci
Restaurant owner speaks out following AI-generated video – NBC Dallas
‘It's clearly fake': Olympic hockey star disavows AI-generated White House video – Politico
Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations – Inside Higher Ed
Fake Iran images show AI used as a weapon of ‘public opinion,’ USF experts say – The Hill
Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media – BBC
How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation – Financial Times
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