I am not entirely convinced that the “Superintelligence Force” is the best way to cool down the competition and slow down the race. However, here we are. This is the only available opportunity to cool down the competition and pursue a safer approach to further development. Although higher education was not heavily consulted in the preparation of this model, we will be impacted by the priorities and products that are produced as a result. Hence, we should actively seek inclusion in the process. We must also recognize that hundreds of other development efforts are being pursued in smaller independent as well as larger military and other governmental initiatives around the world. Some of these are providing open-source solutions that can then be further developed and applied by unregulated actors.
Friday, October 16, 2026
Gonzaga Community Explores AI Through Faith, Ethics, and Dialogue - Gonzago University
This fall, faculty, staff, and students are participating in reading groups focused on Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which examines artificial intelligence through the lenses of human dignity, ethics, faith, and the common good. The discussions are creating space for the Gonzaga community to engage thoughtfully with one of the most significant technological developments of our time. The first fall AI reading group session was organized through Foley Library and invited participants to discuss the encyclical and its implications for higher education and society. The conversations reflect Gonzaga's commitment to cura personalis, educating the whole person, and preparing students not only for careers, but for lives of purpose and ethical discernment about the use of this powerful new technology.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Old Dominion University Researchers Develop AI Tutor to Strengthen Engineering Education - Sherry DiBari, ODU
A simulated stretchable surface could give engineering students a way to see what an equation means — not just how to solve it. At Old Dominion University, researchers are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring system that combines interactive simulations and guided questions to help students understand difficult engineering concepts — not simply memorize formulas. The system, called MAESTRA (Metaphor-based AI-powered Engineering Socratic Tutoring for Reasoning and Advanced Synthesis), is being developed by Gon Namkoong, Ph.D., and Jiang Li, Ph.D., professors in the department of electrical and computer engineering. The project is supported by a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant. “In simple terms, MAESTRA is like having an engineering tutor, an interactive laboratory and a visualization tool working together,” said Dr. Namkoong, lead investigator on the project.
Georgia Tech Announces New Online Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence - Georgia Tech
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has approved Georgia Tech’s new Online Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (OMS AI). It is designed to support working professionals in analyzing and applying artificial intelligence (AI) within their industries. The interdisciplinary degree integrates Georgia Tech’s expertise in AI and emerging technologies with practical applications tailored to specific fields. Throughout the curriculum, students will explore the responsible use of AI, including ethics, privacy, safety, accountability, and governance. It also builds on Georgia Tech's historic leadership in online graduate education. Georgia Tech’s suite of online master of science degree programs provides rigorous, accessible education to working professionals around the world.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
OpenAI’s release of mathematical findings draws concerns from experts - the Guardian
OpenAI has astounded mathematicians after releasing hundreds of new mathematical findings on Tuesday. The company published over 370 mathematical results across a variety of topics such as algebra, theoretical computer science and mathematical logic, showcasing what some of its most advanced artificial intelligence models are capable of. Last month, the company solved the Navier-Stokes equation, one of the world’s toughest mathematical problems with a $1m reward for anyone who cracked it. The achievement prompted concerns from leaders in the field who say that frontier labs should not be testing the most advanced mathematical problems on proprietary AI models that are not accessible to the broader field of mathematicians. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, an independent group of mathematical experts, said that it does not endorse the practice.
Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States - María Jesús Ramírez,
Kweilin Ellingrud, Tanguy Catlin, Diego Castresana, and Anna Kortis, McKinsey
The US economy could create more jobs in the next decade than will be replaced through automation, but the change may require the largest and most sustained workforce transformation in US history. We estimate that roughly 11 million workers in declining occupations may need to transition to new jobs, ranging from six million to 16 million depending on the pace of automation adoption and its impact on labor demand. Jobs of the future, particularly growing jobs, could pay more on average but require more skills. Administrative support, retail and sales, and transportation and logistics occupations. One in seven workers could have a direct pathway into growing jobs, but almost half may face an unpaved pathway. While every transitioning worker has a route into growing work, Overall, more than 70 percent of workers could require some level of reinvention because new tasks may require more than 15 percent of their time. Three types of skills help workers move, move up, and keep adapting.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
As AI Changes the Workplace, CU Denver Prepares Students to Navigate What Comes Next - CU Denver News
By bringing people from across CU Denver together, the AI Hub will give students and the broader university community a place to test ideas, learn from one another, and explore where AI can meaningfully contribute. More than responding to a changing technological landscape, it creates a place for the CU Denver community to participate thoughtfully in shaping what comes next. The AI Hub is the newest way CU Denver is providing hands-on opportunities for students to learn about AI and how it can be used to solve real-world problems. Industry-informed curricula have long given CU Denver students the knowledge and hands-on experience they need to enter the workforce ready to contribute. AI is no different.
Is AI to blame for hiring woes faced by college graduates? - Max Zahn, ABC News
In theory, AI could upend low-level work as recent college graduates enter the job market, eliminating many positions at the bottom of the white-collar career ladder or at least reshaping them. For now, however, analysts disagree about the extent to which AI is to blame for the weak job market faced by newly minted diploma-holders. Economists who fault AI pointed to comparatively sluggish job gains for recent graduates in industries considered vulnerable to the technology. Uncertainty alone, they added, may be enough to deter hiring as some firms await potential AI fallout. Skeptics, by contrast, highlighted a "low hire, low fire" labor market with few new positions for anyone, let alone recent graduates who may require more training than their older counterparts.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/is-ai-blame-hiring-woes-faced-college-graduates/19186503/
Monday, October 12, 2026
Cyber security and AI: What universities need to know in 2026 - Kylie Diwell, Paul Kallenbach, Jasmine Tait, Minter Ellison
Whether or not a university has adopted AI itself, it is almost certainly exposed to AI through its suppliers. That supply chain exposure demands institution-wide visibility and governance. Regulatory guidance from APRA and the OAIC offers a practical benchmark for the sector: map the AI supply chain, put contractual protections in place, and operationalise oversight. Agentic AI, legacy IT and large data holdings mean universities should treat this period as a window to get ahead of an evolving regulatory landscape.
Toronto Metropolitan University Generative Artificial Intelligence Task Force Report
\In 2025, Toronto Metropolitan University established the Leadership Task Force on Generative Artificial Intelligence to guide TMU in navigating the opportunities and challenges presented by rapidly evolving AI technologies. The Task Force brought together academic leaders, educators, researchers, staff, students, and administrators to ensure that the university’s approach to generative AI reflects our values of innovation, integrity, equity and inclusion. This report provides advice, recommendations, and guidance on how the university may adapt to generative AI technologies and support the responsible use of such technologies for human flourishing across all aspects of university operations (learning and teaching; scholarly research and creative activities; student experience; and administration and operations) while ensuring compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and university policies.
Sunday, October 11, 2026
AI Goes to College: Higher education takes a multifaceted approach toward artificial intelligence - Richard Breen, Columbia Metropolitan
Some in higher education see adjustments for artificial intelligence taking place on four levels. First, some colleges and universities are asking themselves what students need to know in order to be career ready. Second is an examination of what kinds of policies and practices need to be put in place to protect learning, such as guidelines for ethical use. Third, colleges and universities are asking themselves how they’re going to use AI internally. Will it be used for fundraising? By the admissions office? What restrictions are needed to maximize efficiency while protecting data and privacy and preventing adverse outcomes? Finally, a much deeper set of questions surrounds ways to help students and schools understand the big-picture implications of this new technology. AI tools are owned by companies that have their own interests. Schools will be creating curricula about AI — from the computer science department to the philosophy department — and not just using it as a tool in existing classes.
Harvard Departments Split on AI Use in Senior Theses, With Many Yet to Set Rules - Sebastian B. Connolly, Harvard Crimson
Only 18 of Harvard College’s 50 concentrations have department-wide restrictions on how seniors can use artificial intelligence in their theses, according to a Crimson review of departmental policies.
With no College-wide policy on AI usage in theses, the rules vary widely by concentration. Six concentrations ban AI use at all stages of the thesis process, while 10 allow thesis writers to use it for research or data analysis but not for writing.
More often, though, departments have not set a concentration-wide rule at all. Seventeen concentrations leave the question to students and their thesis advisers to work out individually, and leaders of 14 others said they are still developing policies.
Saturday, October 10, 2026
The ‘AI and Future of Work’ Series — How the University is preparing students for what is next - Lidia Zur Muhlen, Cavalier Daily
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, college graduates of the last three years are entering a challenging job market. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates was 5.7 percent in Q1 of 2026, compared with 4.23 percent for workers overall. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, in June 2019, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates was 4.3 percent and for workers overall, was 3.5 percent. In a recent Gallup Inc poll, 79 percent of Americans believe that artificial intelligence will reduce the number of jobs over the next 10 years. A recent study by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab has found no evidence of “widespread” job displacement. The study looked at young workers ages 22 to 25 in AI-exposed occupations — jobs in which AI can perform most of the tasks like customer service and software development. Ultimately, its findings illuminated that there would have been a 19 percent drop in employment in late 2026 for AI-exposed jobs if the market kept pace with less AI-exposed occupations’ employment trends.
The ‘AI and Future of Work’ Series — How the University is preparing students for what is next - Lidia
The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind - the Guardian.org
Women made up only about a quarter of new hires in AI roles in the last year, compared to 50% of new hires in non-AI roles, according to a recent report from LinkedIn. In executive roles, that number drops to just 13%. At the same time, LinkedIn’s research shows that women are more likely to work in roles with high exposure to AI disruption, like customer service, meaning they are also at higher risk for job loss due to AI. AI jobs, whose postings have doubled since 2023, come with a salary premium, on average paying more than twice as much as roles that don’t involve working with AI, according to LinkedIn’s research. But women who do have jobs in AI are disproportionately concentrated in low-paying roles, like data annotators, said Sarah Steinberg, the head of global public policy partnerships at LinkedIn. Across all AI occupations, men have $45,000 higher median pay than women, partly due to the types of jobs they are likelier to have. “AI is creating some of the fastest growing, highest paying and most consequential jobs in the global economy,” said Steinberg. “Women are just strikingly underrepresented.”
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