AI Insights for December 11, 2025

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AI at Work

If you missed it, our latest AI at Work session took place on Dec. 10, where we expanded on November’s discussion and explored how Claude Enterprise can support faculty, staff, and students. A full video recording is now available on our website for you to watch anytime.

In This Issue

AI is accelerating across education, industry and society, reshaping classrooms, redefining workforce skills and widening gaps in public trust. Colleges are adapting unevenly as faculty balance innovation, integrity and student expectations, while new research highlights global divides in AI optimism and adoption. Meanwhile, enterprises race to integrate AI at scale, even as concerns about job disruption, transparency and responsible use grow.

News and Views

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Education

  • Educators Will “Never Be Able to Detect” the Use of AI in Homework (Andrej Karpathy)
  • How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping College for Students and Professors (PBS)
  • College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I. (The New York Times)
  • I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse (The New York Times)
  • Colleges Risk Getting it Backwards on AI and They May be Hurting Gen Z Job Searchers (Fortune)
  • Reflections and Considerations for the Next Chapter of AI in Higher Education (Educause Review)

Industry, Investment and Technology

  • ‘It’s Going Much Too Fast’: The Inside Story of the Race to Create the Ultimate AI (The Guardian)
  • How AI is Transforming Work at Anthropic (Anthropic)
  • OpenAI: The State of Enterprise AI (OpenAI)
  • Introducing Shopping Research in ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Adobe Integrates With ChatGPT (The Wall Street Journal)

Policy, Ethics and Safety

  • Behind the Curtain: Trump Bets Party, Presidency on AI (Axios)
  • How Trump’s U-Turn on Nvidia Chips Changes the Game for China’s AI (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Panel Weighs New Guardrails for AI Chatbots as Concerns Mount Over Child Safety (Broadband Breakfast)
  • AI Poses Unprecedented Threats. Congress Must Act Now (The Guardian)
  • AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans (The Wall Street Journal)

Society and Daily Life

Workforce and Business Impact

  • Top Consultancies Freeze Starting Salaries as AI Threatens ‘Pyramid’ Model (Financial Times)

    This Issue’s Tip: Step-by-Step Claude Projects Video

    For a quick look at how Projects can streamline your work, start with our new Claude Projects tutorial video, which walks through the basics and shares tips for great results.

    Then dive into our step-by-step guide to Projects, a powerful way to organize ongoing work, save time, and build repeatable AI-supported workflows. The guide walks you through everything from setting up Projects and shaping prompts to connecting Microsoft 365 files and reusing artifacts.

    This Issue’s Win: Using Claude to Streamline Alumni Survey Analysis

    Kim Infanti ’06, G’16, executive director in the Office of Alumni and Constituent Engagement, decided to analyze 300+ pages of free-text responses from Syracuse University’s 2019 all-alumni survey, a task that would have taken days (if not weeks) of manual review. Using Claude, she uploaded the entire document and requested a comprehensive synthesis including key themes, positive/negative feedback, trends and actionable recommendations. In 22 seconds, Claude produced an organized executive summary with clear priorities for what the office should start, stop and continue doing. This AI-powered analysis transformed an overwhelming dataset into strategic insights, saving significant staff time while ensuring Alumni and Constituent Engagement didn’t miss critical alumni feedback patterns. 

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    Thank you for reading. Go Orange!