20 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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8 Takeaways from Oxford’s 2025 Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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  • For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news.

  • Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows.

  • In the U.S. between 2021 and 2025, the share of population consuming news video at least weekly increased from 55% to 72%, with most of the news video being viewed on social platforms.

  • The vast majority of audiences remain unwilling to pay for online news.

  • More than a third of respondents say they turn to a news outlet they trust to check if information is false or misleading. But younger users are more likely than other groups to check social media, including by reading comments from other users.

  • In the U.S. a similar proportion now consume news podcasts each week as read a printed newspaper or magazine (14%) or listen to news and current affairs on the radio (13%).

  • Audiences in most countries remain skeptical about the use of AI in the news and are more comfortable with use cases where humans remain in the loop.

  • Overall trust in the news (40%) has remained stable for the third year in a row.

    2025 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

17 Articles about AI’s impact on College Faculty & Administrators

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Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role - GovTech

Crafting Thoughtful AI Policy in Higher Education: A Guide for Institutional Leaders – Faculty Focus

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting: Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it – The Atlantic 

How Higher Ed Institutions Are Using Built-In Generative AI Tools – EdTech Magazine

AI Agents Are Set To Transform Higher Education—Here’s How – Forbes

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. – New York Times

OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State. - New York Times

What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI and Threats to Academic Integrity: What to Do – Inside Higher Ed

How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future - New York Times

In Battle Against AI-Powered Fraudsters, Colleges Turn to New Weapon – AI – Voice of San Diego

Boston University Denies It Would Use AI to Replace Striking Teaching Assistants – Inside Higher Ed  

Are You Ready for the AI University? – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Students Found Out AI Will Help Read Their Names at Commencement. Protest Ensued. – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

How To Stay Ahead Of AI – The Human Skills Universities Must Teach - Forbes 

To ‘publish or perish’, do we need to add ‘AI or die’? – Times Higher Ed

As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond – Voice of San Diego

The best Social Network for Success is Often Overlooked

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Several years ago sociologist Brian Uzzi did a study of why certain Broadway musicals made between 1945 and 1989 were successful and others flopped. The explanation he arrived at had to do with the people behind the productions. For failed productions, one of two extremes was common. The first was a collaboration between creative artists and producers who tended to all know one another. When there were mostly strong ties, the production lacked the fresh, creative insights that come from diverse experience. The other type of failed production was one in which none of the artists had experience working together. When the group was made up of mostly weak ties, teamwork and group cohesion suffered.

In contrast, the social networks of the people behind successful productions had a healthy balance: There were some strong ties, some weak ties. There was some established trust, but also enough new blood in the system to generate new ideas. Think of your network of relationships in the same way: The best professional network is both narrow/deep (allies with whom you collaborate regularly) and wide/ shallow (weak-tie acquaintances who offer fresh information and ideas). 

Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, The Startup of You

14 Surprising Things AI Can Do Now

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The Impact of AI on Computer Science Degrees

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Computer science has consistently been one of the top majors in the United States for the last decade. But with the ability to task A.I. to code, startups and tech giants alike are hiring fewer and fewer entry-level computer scientists. Reports suggest that at major A.I. companies, the hiring rate for software engineering jobs has fallen over the course of 2024 from a high of about 3,000 per month to near zero. If enrollments in computer science degrees dry up as jobs disappear, the whole pipeline from education to employment could crash.  It’s not so surprising that chatbots might threaten technical jobs before writing ones. -Leif Weatherby, director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University, writing in the New York Times

18 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

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Why Companies Are Already All-In on AI After Arriving Late to Everything Else - Wall Street Journal

Amazon CEO tells employees that AI will shrink its workforce - Washington Post

AI layoffs start hitting a wide swath of Corporate America - Quartz

601 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations – Google Cloud 

Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages – The Verge  

No AI, no job. These companies are requiring workers to use the tech. – Washington Post

The Future Of Leadership In The Age Of AI – Forbes  

Americans to business: Take AI slow and do it right - Axios 

Google offers AI certification for business leaders now - free trainings included – ZDnet

Microsoft helped kick off the AI boom. It needs humans more than ever, its CEO says - Semafor

Wake-up call: Leadership in the AI age - Axios

How ‘causal’ AI can improve your decision-making - IMD

Walmart Is Preparing to Welcome Its Next Customer: The AI Shopping Agent – Wall Street Journal

AI agents bring big risks and rewards for daring early adopters - ZDnet 

AI-first: did Duolingo make a fatal mistake? - UX Collective  

Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened - Futurism 

Google AI Overviews leads to dramatic reduction in clickthroughs for Mail Online – Press Gazette 

An AI Analyst Made 30 Years of Stock Picks — and Blew Human Investors Away - Stanford Graduate School of Business

How AI can help you finally demolish your business's mounting technical debt - ZDnet 

Fast, Frictionless, and “Good Enough”

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The Industrial Revolution replaced artisanal craftsmanship with mechanized production, enabling goods to be replicated and manufactured on a mass scale.  Shoes, cars, and crops could be produced efficiently and uniformly. But products also became more bland, predictable, and stripped of individuality. Craftsmanship retreated to the margins, as a luxury or a form of resistance.  Today, there’s a similar risk with the automation of thought. Generative AI tempts users to conflate speed with quality, productivity with originality.  The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless, and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the depth, nuance, and intellectual richness that define exceptional human work. -Fast Company

19 Recent Articles about Using AI

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Tips for brainstorming with ChatGPT and other AI bots - The Washington Post

How to use ChatGPT to write code - and my top trick for debugging what it generates - ZDnet 

How to better brainstorm with ChatGPT in five steps – Washington Post

2 Ways I'm Using ChatGPT Advanced Voice to Improve My Life - CNET

How to use Google's AI-powered NotebookLM — 5 tips to get started – Tom’s Guide

Research: Gen AI Makes People More Productive—and Less Motivated – Harvard Business Review  

Google’s NotebookLM just got a huge upgrade — here’s why it beats ChatGPT for team projects – Tom’s Guide

5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT. – Washington Post

You Can Get a Google AI Certification for $99. Or Just Do the Training for Free - CNET

New Google app lets you download and run AI models on your phone without the internet – ZDnet

What is AI Mode, Google's new artificial intelligence search technology? – CBS News 

Google offers AI certification for business leaders now - free trainings included – ZDnet

How ‘causal’ AI can improve your decision-making - IMD

5 Expert Tips for Excelling with NotebookLM – KD Nuggets

This quiet AI upgrade actually changed my life – ZDnet

AI Learning Resources & Guides - Anthropic

NotebookLM Is My All-Time Favorite AI Tool and Its New Features Make It Even Better - CNET 

Three “excellent practical generative AI courses” to get started building AI agents & fine-tune reasoning models – KD Nuggets

Boost Your Workflow with AI: Productivity Tips and Strategies - Duke University (webinar)

Measuring Intelligence

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People have been measuring what they believe is intelligence without having a really firm understanding of what it is that they are measuring. Many theorists in psychology believe that conventional tests of intelligence measures only a relatively narrow aspect of intelligence. The result is that what we may take as a difference between two people in their levels of intelligence may reflect only a difference in a fairly small portions of their levels of intelligence.

Robert Sternberg, Thinking Styles

19 Articles about AI & Politics

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