Having an open mind
/Having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as the opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. -GK Chesterton, born May 29, 1874
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
14 Articles about the Limitations of AI
/AI models hallucinate less than humans — just in “more surprising ways” – Tech Crunch
What AI thinks it knows about you – The Atlantic
Without Good Data, AI is Useless – Oracle
Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened – Futurism
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse – New York Times
AI tools mostly fumble basic financial tasks, study finds – Washington Post
Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. News Summaries – New York Times
The Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is - The Atlantic
Can AI be your therapist? Experts disagree - Axios
Generative AI Limitations: What It Can’t Do (Yet) – Net Guru
WVU researchers test AI’s limits in emergency room diagnoses – West Virginia University
AI: Uses, Ethics and Limitations – KUAF
AI Can Assist Human Judges, But It Can’t Replace Them (Yet) – David Lat Blog
Can generative AI replace humans in qualitative research studies? - Techxplore
Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon – New York Times
AI's Impact on Search
/“We may be heading for a post-search web—one where content is not surfaced by keywords and ranking formulas, but synthesized and summarized by machines. In that world, publishers risk becoming invisible and their revenue models disrupted.” -Jon Passantino writing on Status
Snowflakes in an Avalanche
/No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. –Voltaire
Instead of asking
/Instead of asking, "How do I get out of this thing I must do?" ask, "How do I become fully present in it?"
16 Articles about AI’s future
/Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome - The Verge
The future of AI is in western Pennsylvania – Washington Post
LLMs are Making Me Dumber - Vincent Cheng Blog
Americans largely foresee AI having negative effects on news, journalists – Pew Research
This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead – New York Times
Will true AI turn against us? - Big Think
Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough? - The New Yorker
Thomas Friedman on the Future of AI – New York Times
What will the next cycle of AI development be: Agents? Reasoners? Actual multimodality? – Vintage Data
AI at the microphone: The voice of the future? – Digital Society Blog
How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence - Pew Research
The Download: AI can cheat at chess, and the future of search – MIT Tech Review
Exploring how User Experience will evolve with the growth of Artificial Intelligence. – Shape of AI
AI's creative block - Axios
AI predicted the next pope. Did it get it right? – Science.org
12 top ways artificial intelligence will impact healthcare – Tech Target
The inner critic
/The inner critic must be shut down, and the inner Picasso turned up. -Heather Berlin
23 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care
/Medical errors are still harming patients. AI could help change that. – NBC News
AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers – Nature
Machine Learning Model Helps Identify Patients at Risk of Postpartum Depression - Mass General Brigham
Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon – New York Times
How AI is changing radiology – Semafor
Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records – Nature
Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall – MIT
AI Helped Heal My Chronic Pain – Wall Street Journal
How AI is changing your doctors appointments – Fast Company
As AI in health care proliferates, so do legal questions concerning its use – Stat News
Researchers raise red flag about AI-generated fake images in biomedical research – Medicalxpress
Artificial neural networks date back to the 1950s – now they're ready to transform healthcare – Health Care IT News
Artificial intelligence predicts kidney cancer therapy response - UT Southwestern Medical Center
Refining ALS Diagnosis with AI – First Word Pharma
AI is coming to skin cancer detection - Washington Post
Every doctor is a writer: On the end of note-writing and meaning-making in medicine – Stat News
New AI algorithm to predict risk of cardiovascular events, heart-related death – AM 7 am
AI hasn’t killed radiology, but it is changing it – Washington Post
Transformer AI model detects wheezing in children with over 90% accuracy: study – Korea Biomedical Review
As they push ahead with AI, health leaders must set rules on use – American Medical Association
OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models - Stat News
Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it – American Association of Medical Colleges
Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment - Wall Street Journal
AI Magic & Engineering Principles
/None of this is to say AI can’t write good code – it sometimes does – but rather that context, scrutiny, and expertise are required to discern good from bad. In 2025, we are essentially using a very eager but inexperienced assistant. You shouldn’t blindly trust an AI’s code without oversight. The hype of “AI magic” needs to meet the reality of software engineering principles. - Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
The important thing
/The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. –Charles Dubois
11 Webinars this Week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Tue, May 27 - Public Health Journalism: Covering rural & urban health disparities
What: Research shows large and growing disparities between rural and urban communities in their access to quality and consistent health care — especially in treatment for cancer maternal health. Covering these inequities, as well as solutions to them, comes with challenges. This session focused on a solutions-journalism approaches to covering rural health issues.
Who: Anne Zink, Senior Fellow at the Yale School of Public Health and former Chief Medical Officer for the state of Alaska.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute, Common Health Coalition
Tue, May 27 - Trauma-informed leadership workshop
What: Learn a framework for understanding the core needs necessary to support the psychological safety of your team. Build a 30-day plan that outlines a series of behaviors to practice in order to model the values of either care, coaching or connection. Participants will contribute anonymously to set of interactive slide and receive real-time coaching and context as their responses come in.
Who: Sam Ragland, API’s vice president of journalism strategy
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: American Press Institute
Wed, May 28 - Social Media Scams, Cyber Fraud, AI, and Deepfake Media
What: A discussion of prevalent social media scams and fraud, other types of cyber fraud, and the impact of AI and deepfake media.
Who: Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate
When: 11:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Iowa Secretary of State's Office and the Iowa Bankers Association
Wed, May 28 - Next Level AI: Custom GPTs, Zapier, & Autonomous Agents
What: Take your AI skills to the next level exploring Custom GPTs, Zapier integrations, and Autonomous Agents. Learn how to build personalized AI experiences, automate complex workflows, and experiment with agents that can think and act on your behalf.
Who: Tim Daniel, Widener SBDC
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Wed, May 28 - Burn After Reporting — Leak Investigations and the Press
What: A discussion about what journalists and their sources should expect and how they can protect themselves.
Who: Trevor Timm, our executive director Freedom of the Press Foundation; James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author, and former New York Times reporter; Ryan Lizza, founder and editor of Telos.news; former chief Washington correspondent for Politico Lauren Harper, the Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy at Freedom of the Press Foundation.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Freedom of the Press Foundation
Wed, May 28 - AI for Nonprofits, Part 2: Hands-On with Microsoft 365 Copilot — Use Cases & Demo
What: We will dive into the essentials of generative AI, address key AI concerns, and demonstrate how nonprofits can benefit from using Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, to achieve their goals.
Who: Joshua Peskay, RoundTable Technology, 3CPO; Kim Snyder, RoundTable Technology, VP of Data Strategy.
When: 3:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Thu, May 29 - Understanding and Countering Climate Change Misinformation and Disinformation
What: Climate change misinformation and disinformation can influence publics and decision makers to block or water down climate solutions. In this webinar we will discuss how climate change disinformation spreads, groups that are susceptible, and how organizations and stakeholders can respond.
Who: Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Director; Philip Newell, Climate Action Against Disinformation; Cristina López, Graphika; Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Yale Center for Environmental Communication
Thu, May 29 - Beyond the Bot: Leveraging AI for Nonprofit Impact
What: AI is transforming industries across the globe and nonprofits are no exception. Learn how Cathy and her team integrated AI into a medium-sized nonprofit to build efficiencies while staying mission-focused. We’ll cover issues of organizational culture, use cases, data privacy and policies, staff training and success measurement.
Who: Cathy Yen, The Nonprofit Planner Company.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Nonprofit Learning Lab
Thu, May 29 - The Multiplatform News Organization in 2025
What: News organizations have reworked their production facilities to better handle creating and distributing stories to many platforms. What’s the state of the art at this point? What kind of production hubbing and news sharing is going on?
Who: Sean McLaughlin, VP of News, Graham Media Group; Rene Gonzalez, Technical Product Manager, Content Tech, NBCUniversal Local TechOps, Ernie Mourelo, VP of Digital News, Hearst Television; Ernie Ensign, AVP, News Technology & Operations, Sinclair; Chris Kelly, Director, Technical Solutions, Production Workflow, Ross Video; Glen Dickson, Contributing Editor, TVNewsCheck.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Ross
Thu, May 29 - AI in Action: Practical Uses for Work, Learning, and Life
What: This session features three insightful talks: discover how AI can make educational content more engaging for learners, learn strategies educators can use to streamline their workflows, and get an inside look at Coach—an AI-powered career coach helping learners build the skills and confidence they need for the future of work. Whether you're an educator, professional, or student, this session will offer inspiration and actionable takeaways.
Who: Ebony Staten Director of Partner Success, CareerVillage.org; Minh Pham, VMG Education; Ben Scherr Senior Career Advancement Coordinator, Allstate Apprenticeship Program.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy, Career Village
Fri, May 30 - How does AI portray the world? The world through the lenses of AI and what are the issues in terms of ethics?
What: How AI is trained and who is behind? How does AI in some ways amplify stereotypes?
Who: Fabienne Martin-Juchat, Full Professor of information and communication sciences at the University of Grenoble Alpes; Chloé Tran Phu, media literacy trainer at Média Animation, resources centre in Belgium; Sarah Labelle, University of Montpellier Paul Valéry, France; Vladimir Delov (Institute of Communication Studies, Macedonia; Bérénice Vanneste, Media Animation, Belgium.
When: 9 am, Eastern (the next day)
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Tadam Education
Give All
/Give all to love; obey thy heart. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25, 1803)
Humans in the Coding Loop
/"Human coders often adjust a design as they implement, discovering misassumptions along the way. AI won’t catch those misassumptions unless the human in the loop notices and corrects it." -Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
Busy Dying
/He not busy being born is busy dying. -Bob Dylan, born May 24, 1941
Success
/No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. —Charles Kendall Adams
22 Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs
/Why AI Interviews Could Be Bad News For Honest Designers – Andy Budd
The future of AI is in western Pennsylvania - Washington Post
I’m a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking. – New York Time
AI and the future of work – Cambridge
An AI tool for better career decisions – David Bauer
How AI Is Helping Job Seekers Pivot to New Careers - Wall Street Journal
AI poses a bigger threat to women's work, than men's, says report – Reuters
If you haven’t been worrying about AI, it’s time to start preparing - Washington Post
Something Alarming is Happening to the Job Market: A new sign that AI is competing with college grads – The Atlantic
The AI Threat for Coding Jobs Is Becoming Clearer – Bloomberg
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete - Wall Street Journal
AI isn’t ready to do your job – Business Insider
Microsoft says AI coworkers are coming fast – Yahoo Tech
The Dangers Of AI-Generated Job Candidates – Forbes
AI “interns” are too big to ignore – Fast Company
Why AI Might Not Take All Our Jobs—If We Act Quickly – Wall Street Journal
Americans worry AI is coming for these jobs – Washington Post
Say Hello to Your New Colleague, the AI Agent – Wall Street Journal
Google AI Search Leaves Website Makers Feeling Betrayed – Bloomberg
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office – Anil Dash
Innovate Why AI Won’t Replace Venture Capitalists Any Time Soon – Inc
13 jobs that don't require a college degree − and won't be replaced by AI – USA Today
Unchecked AI-generated Code
/Unchecked AI-generated code can massively amplify technical debt, the hidden problems that make software brittle and costly to maintain. Many early vibe-coded projects look good on the surface (“it works, ship it!”) but hide a minefield of issues: no error handling, poor performance, questionable security practices, and logically brittle code. - Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
Instructors Using AI Get Student Pushback
/"Students are complaining on sites like Rate My Professors about their instructors’ overreliance on A.I. and scrutinizing course materials for words ChatGPT tends to overuse, like 'crucial' and 'delve.' In addition to calling out hypocrisy, they make a financial argument: They are paying, often quite a lot, to be taught by humans, not an algorithm that they, too, could consult for free." -New York Times
Deep Practice
/Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit further each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly intuitively. the instinct to slow down and break skills into their components is universal.
We heard it a billion times while we were growing up, from parents and coaches who echoed the old refrain “Just take it one step at a time.” But what I didn't understand until I visited the talent hotbeds was just how effective that simple, intuitive strategy could be.
In the talent hotbeds I visited, the chunking takes place in three dimensions. First, the participants look at the task as a whole—as one big chunk, the megacircuit. Second, they divide it into its smallest possible chucks. Third, they play with time, slowing the action down, then speeding it up, to learn its inner architecture.
People in the hotbeds deep-practice the same way a good movie director approaches a scene—one instant panning back to show the landscape, The next zooming in to examine a bug crawling on a leaf in slo-mo.
Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
Free Educator Newsletters about AI
/The Academic DJ - Justin Cerenzia
The AI Edventure - Jason Gulya
AI x Education - Stanford University
AI and How We Teach Writing - Annette Vee
AI, writing, and pedagogy - Anna Mills
The Biblioracle Recommends - John Warner
The Broken Copier - Marcus Luther
The End(s) of Argument - Mike Caulfield
One Useful Thing - Ethan Mollick
Writing Hacks - Jane Rosenzweig