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AI at Work
Have you found a useful way to use generative AI in your work at Syracuse University? We’re inviting faculty and staff to share real-world examples during AI at Work: Claude Success Stories on March 25 from 2 to 3:15 p.m. in 216 Marley and on Microsoft Teams. If you’d like to highlight how you use Claude in your role, email itscomm@syr.edu to share.
This Issue’s Tip: Claude Skills
Learn how to customize Claude using Skills, which allow you to create reusable instructions for specific tasks. This short video shows where to find Skills in the Claude interface, how to enable the Skill Creator, and how to build, upload and manage your own Skills. It also includes a quick demo of using a newly created skill to draft content in Claude.
News and Views
In Summary
Companies are replacing roles with AI tools, while cybercriminals are using AI to accelerate attacks. New efforts aim to verify what’s real online as deepfakes spread. At the same time, researchers are studying how people collaborate with AI, how it affects workplace relationships and how emerging “agentic” AI could transform higher education and the future of work.
Education, Teaching and Learning
- Will Agentic AI Break Higher Education? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- How Teens Use and View AI (Pew Research Center)
- AI Is Poised to Reshape Social-Emotional Learning. But for Better or Worse? (Education Week)
- College Students, Professors Are Making Their Own AI Rules. They Don’t Always Agree (NPR)
Business and the Economy
- State of AI in the Enterprise (Deloitte)
- The $1.6 Trillion Meltdown That Swept Through Software Stocks (The Wall Street Journal)
- Block swaps 4,000 workers for AI (Payments Dive)
- The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived (The New York Times)
Platforms and Company Updates
- Perplexity Pulling Sponsored Answers From AI Platform (PYMNTS)
- Claude Code Security by Anthropic aims to detect and patch complex vulnerabilities (Digital Watch)
- Anthropic’s COBOL Bet Shakes Mainframe Economics (PYMNTS)
- Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index (Anthropic)
- Anthropic Pushes Claude Deeper Into Knowledge Work (The Wall Street Journal)
- Opus 3 has a blog (Claude’s Corner)
- Switch to Claude without starting over (Claude)
Policy, Copyright and Regulation
- US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material (Reuters)
Security, Cybersecurity and Authenticity
- Threat groups use AI to speed up and scale cyberattacks (Cybersecurity Dive)
- Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online (MIT Technology Review)
- These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? (The New York Times)
Society
- AI: The Best Supporting Actor You’ll Never See (PYMNTS)
- How AI Damages Work Relationships—and Where It Can Actually Help (Harvard Business Review)
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This Issue’s Win: AI Collaboration Coach
A prompt is how you ask generative AI tools to do something for you (e.g., creating, summarizing, editing or transforming). Treat it like a conversation, using clear language and enough context to get the result you have in mind.
To get more practice, use the generative AI tool of your choice (for example, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI ChatGPT or Anthropic Claude) to execute the following prompt:
“You are an AI collaboration coach.
I am working on this task: [DESCRIBE A TASK YOU’RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON].
Help me use AI effectively by:
1. Breaking the task into smaller steps.
2. Identifying which steps AI could help with.
3. Suggesting prompts I could use at each step.
4. Pointing out where human judgment or expertise is still important.
Present the steps clearly so I can follow them and work alongside AI, not rely on it completely.“
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