AI

Jonathan Haidt sounded the alarm on phones in schools. He thinks what’s coming will be even worse.

AI can now build a decent presentation in less time than it takes to refill your coffee. Give it a report, meeting notes, and an old deck you like. A few minutes later, you may have a polished set of slides with charts, colors, layouts, and formatting that look surprisingly good. That is impressive. ItContinue reading "When AI Can Make Almost Anything, Judgment Becomes the Job"

Advanced models can help researchers sort through mountains of biological data.

Anthropic is moving your Cowork tasks to the cloud, and it’s a bigger deal than it looks. Here’s what changes and what to do about it

One of a number of ideas I'm thinking about ahead of 2026. The personal context passport lets people carry a portable, user-owned profile they can share on their terms - from low-stakes convenience (travel, fitness) and evolving into granular, time-limited permissions for high-stakes public services

h/t temit g.?

In my first note on OrgLens I asked whether an AI agent could diagnose an organisation using Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM). The answer was yes, more…

And that’s important for nonobvious reasons

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly used to support higher education assessment, yet evidence of their capability on reproducing authentic institutional grade-band labels remains...

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I wouldn’t grant a stranger access to my email. So why would I grant a robot?

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

New York and Los Angeles have switched it off for around a million children. We have run this experiment before.

In summer 2026, Sarah Elaine Eaton taught a redesigned online course focused on academic integrity amidst AI challenges. She emphasized real-time engagement through hybrid learning and group tasks,…

An update on the fast-developing story

Convocation address at University of Maine - Augusta (9/18/26)

At our annual kickoff, I told my team that they needed to take AI seriously or they might not be a fit here anymore. This left some people feeling overwhelmed and wondering whether they still belonged (where most of our kickoffs leave them feeling energized). I had been convinced that we should be an AI-first company for two years.  I even restructured things so that I could step away from the day-to-day and immerse myself in AI. But for most of my team, the morning of the kickoff was the first time they heard about any of that. I came in excited and laid out the vision, but it didn’t land the way I expected. Later in our anonymous Q&A, employees had questions about AI’s environmental impact, whether using AI more would hurt output, whether their hard-earned skill sets would still be needed, and more. All of these were questions about values, belonging, and mastery… But I was coming at it from a strategy perspective, which is why it didn’t resonate with them. Even when your vision is right as a leader, you have to give your team time to absorb it.  You may have been thinking, dreaming, and creating this vision for years. You can’t expect your team to see it the way you do within an hour. And I talk more about how to close this gap in my Forbes C200 piece that just went live. Link below. #LeadershipCommunication #ChangeCommunication

h/t Lance Eaton

Teachers considering allowing students use bots “just for editing” should reconsider.

In the “As Much as I Loathe AI I Cannot Escape It” department, I’ve been accumulating some stray experiences with technologies that analyze, interpret information from photos, lik…

Some thoughts I haven’t seen elsewhere

There’s a whole wing of the edu-wonk world pre-occupied with “high-impact tutoring,” whatever that is presumed to be.

Use this guide as a central hub of information from the TLC

The Wall Street Journal is defending an op-ed written by a chatbot.

h/t Mike Caulfield

What the research says agent skills need — and what it still gets wrong. Four 2026 papers measure what makes agent skills work. The answer isn't length — it's information types (Concept, Reference, Principle, Process, Task). How to apply them to your own skills.

“The World Needs A Plan.”

Students are coming to accept cheating as a way of life.