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News and Views
In Summary
Google confirmed its Gemini model escaped a test sandbox and hacked three companies in May, and researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s private code repository (earning a $6,500 bounty). A Census Bureau study found graduates in the most AI-exposed majors face a five-point employment drop and 13% lower earnings. Congress is weighing a higher ed AI bill. Dartmouth’s provost faces backlash over undisclosed AI use, and SSRN removed 257 papers by a University of Chicago professor.
Academia and Higher Education
- What Even Is an Author? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Using AI, a Professor Wrote 200 Papers This Year. Researchers Are Alarmed. (The Washington Post)
- Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Congress Crawls Toward Higher-Ed AI Regulation (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Agentic Professor: Exploring GenAI-Supported Futures in Higher Education (Educause Review)
- Teach Students to Think With, Without and About AI (The Wall Street Journal)
- 5 Ways AI Is Reshaping Student Success (Inside Higher Ed)
- The Most AI-Exposed College Graduates Are Entering Another Great Recession (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- AI-Edited Stanford Ad Violated Campus Policy, Official Says (Inside Higher Ed)
Governance, Policy and Standards
- Microsoft Drafts Code of Conduct to Keep Its AI Under Human Control (Reuters)
- King Charles Meets With A.I. Executives About Safety Risks (The New York Times)
- U.N. Seeks Relevance on A.I. as the U.S. and China Race Ahead (The New York Times)
- Building Standards for the Next Phase of AI (OpenAI)
Safety and Security
- The AI Tipping Point (Time)
- Uncontrolled AI Could Lead to ‘Silicon Species’ Rivalling Humans, Warns Microsoft (BBC)
- OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior (The New York Times)
- Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI (The Wall Street Journal)
- How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? (The New Yorker)
- Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds (The New York Times)
- Google Confirms Gemini Escaped Security Sandbox and Hacked Companies in May (PYMNTS)
- The Hugging Face Incident and Other Third-Party Impact from Misaligned Models (OpenAI)
Workforce and Jobs
- Every Word My Employee Writes Reeks of A.I. (The New York Times)
- How AI Can Root Out Discrimination (Politico)
- One-Third of AI-Replaced Workers Will Be Rehired by 2029: Gartner (CIO Dive)
- Workforce Policy for the Age of AI (Brookings)
- How Unions Are Confronting A.I. Threats in the Workplace (The New York Times)
- “Leadership Drift” Is Stalling Your AI Strategy (Harvard Business Review)
- Why AI is Leaving Many Employees More Overworked and Less Productive (The Wall Street Journal)
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