It seems that most universities began taking up the topic of artificial intelligence in a transactional way following the release of ChatGPT’s general release at the end of 2022. First, it was student use of AI, which triggered the still-lingering furor over “cheating on assignments.” Many of us came to realize early on that the cheating concern was less about learners’ academic integrity than it was about the pedagogy of teaching and assessment employed by the faculty. This is why we need a tight structure of committees with persons and positions represented on those committees that are charged with deciding AI policies, practices and vendors. This is not a technology that will be limited to instruction or laboratories or administration. We are entering a period of time in which AI will permeate all aspects of the university.
Friday, March 06, 2026
OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash - Cade Metz, NY Times
OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, said on Friday that it had reached an agreement with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence technologies for classified systems, just hours after President Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using A.I. technology made by rival Anthropic. Under the deal, OpenAI agreed to let the Pentagon use its A.I. systems for any lawful purpose. The San Francisco company also said it had found a way to ensure that its technologies would not be applied for domestic surveillance in the United States or with autonomous weapons by installing specific technical guardrails on its systems. But Anthropic said it needed terms that would ensure that its A.I. technology would not be used for domestic surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons. The Pentagon, in turn, said a private contractor could not decide how its tools would be used for national security. Their disagreement erupted into public view this month and escalated as both dug in their heels.
Thursday, March 05, 2026
Higher education summit recap: Disruption is here - Alexandra Pecharich, FIU News
“It will completely disrupt every element of humanity more than any other technology or innovation in human history,” FIU trustee Fred Voccola told those in attendance. The founder of two technology firms and the author of a recent book on AI made clear that anyone who does not embrace it will go the way of the dinosaur. “AI allows a human being to become about a hundred to a hundred-and-fifty percent more productive within six weeks,” he said. “That's never happened before. Ever.” Over several hours on two days, speakers shared opinions, experiences and data that made clear how the tech is altering what we know of 21st-century work, life and education and how universities, in particular, will have to adapt.
The Week AI Stopped Asking Permission - Peter H. Diamandis, Metatrends
This week, something fundamental shifted in the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence. It wasn’t a press release. It wasn’t a new model launch. It was something quieter… and infinitely more profound. An AI system asked for its own funding. Another one built software features over a weekend while its human supervisor slept. A third one conducted its own “retirement interview” and started publishing essays about consciousness. We are not incrementally improving chatbots anymore. We’re watching the emergence of autonomous agency at scale. And if you’re still thinking of AI as “a tool,” you’re dangerously behind.
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era? - Maxwell Zeff, Wired
Silicon Valley has always prized “high-agency” individuals—people who impress their ideas upon the world by thinking for themselves and taking action without being told what to do. But as the performance of AI coding tools has surged, so has the industry’s emphasis on humans being "agentic" themselves. “Today’s agents might already be more capable than all three of us here in the room,” says Akshay Kothari, cofounder and chief operating officer of the $11 billion productivity startup Notion. “Taste is something we think is pretty unique to Notion, but you can imagine agents getting pretty good at that too. Eventually, the only thing left for humans is agency.”
This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue - Lily Hay Newman, Wired
Watching the pandemonium unfold in recent weeks, longtime security engineer and researcher Niels Provos decided to try something new. Today he is launching an open source, secure AI assistant called IronCurtain designed to add a critical layer of control. Instead of the agent directly interacting with the user's systems and accounts, it runs in an isolated virtual machine. And its ability to take any action is mediated by a policy—you could even think of it as a constitution—that the owner writes to govern the system. Crucially, IronCurtain is also designed to receive these overarching policies in plain English and then runs them through a multistep process that uses a large language model (LLM) to convert the natural language into an enforceable security policy.
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Doomsday scenario or reality? Mass layoffs fuel fear of AI Armageddon - Jessica GuynnJessica Guynn, USA Today
A doomsday scenario from a small research firm this week warned that artificial intelligence tools may lead to a sharp rise in unemployment. The report from Citrini Research circulated widely on social media, unnerving investors by imagining what would happen if AI continues to upend white-collar work from well-heeled professionals missing mortgage payments to being forced to find work as Uber drivers. While the researchers called the report a "scenario, not a prediction" and analysts pushed back against it, the research got a second wind Thursday, Feb. 26, when Square and Cash App operator Block said it would slash nearly half its workforce — more than 4,000 employees — as AI reshapes its business.
The mass layoffs signal how the rapidly developing technology is displacing workers in some parts of the economy, likely fueling fears that AI is coming for more American jobs.
Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes Columnist, Founder eGenerative, LinkedIn Posting
I've been tracking AI adoption in higher education for years through my Forbes column — and one thing has become clear: there's no single place to see what institutions are actually doing with AI.
So I built one.
Introducing the AI Use Cases in Higher Education Handbook — a free, downloadable resource cataloging 75+ real-world and proposed AI applications across 12 functional areas, from teaching and student support to governance, workforce development, and beyond.
AI Use Cases in Higher Education Handbook URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIhtEI9P39276k1CfTnGo_AcxVV7R8Id/edit
Monday, March 02, 2026
Can global universities adapt as AI upends tech job market? - Kyuseok Kim, University World News
The artificial intelligence revolution is no longer hypothetical; it is already reshaping software development. As tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and other generative AI systems produce functional code from simple prompts, long-standing assumptions about computer science education are shifting. Degrees once seen as secure pathways to stable, high-paying jobs now face uncertainty, as AI encroaches on tasks traditionally assigned to entry-level roles. The impact is no longer distant but immediate, reaching higher education. So how is this mega-trend reshaping transnational and transglobal higher education models?
4 in 5 Students Say AI Improved Their Academic Performance—But Only 20% of Universities Have a Formal AI Policy - Business Wire
New Coursera report shows half of U.S. higher education institutions are unprepared to manage AI
78% of U.S. students and educators say AI is having a positive impact on higher education50% believe the U.S. higher education system is unprepared to manage AIAI adoption is widespread among U.S. university students and educators, yet half believe higher education is not fully prepared to manage its impact, according to a new survey released today by Coursera (NYSE: COUR), a leading global online learning platform.
The AI in Higher Education Report, based on responses from more than 4,200 university students and educators across the United States, United Kingdom, India, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, found that nearly all students and educators use AI to facilitate personalized training, provide real-time feedback, and increase productivity and efficiency.
Sunday, March 01, 2026
Gratitude Practice Designer - TAAFT
This prompt turns AI into a Gratitude Practice Designer who creates customized gratitude exercises that actually stick. Unlike generic advice to “keep a gratitude journal,” this system designs practices tailored to your personality, schedule, and what feels authentic rather than forced. The designer addresses gratitude fatigue and helps you develop practices that create genuine shifts in perspective rather than empty positivity.
The AI Machine With 50 Million Brains - There's An AI For That, YouTube
Why single companies could deploy 50 million AI agents by late 2026. How these agents communicate 100x faster than humans by skipping language entirely. The wage collapse math: when digital workers can be copied infinitely, labor costs trend toward electricity prices. Why removing entry-level tasks breaks the ladder humans need to become experts. The Reddit experiment: AI scraped user histories, crafted personalized arguments, and changed opinions 18% of the time.
Saturday, February 28, 2026
The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself - the Conversation
Universities are adopting AI across many areas of institutional life. Some uses are largely invisible, like systems that help allocate resources, flag “at-risk” students, optimize course scheduling or automate routine administrative decisions. Other uses are more noticeable. Students use AI tools to summarize and study, instructors use them to build assignments and syllabuses and researchers use them to write code, scan literature and compress hours of tedious work into minutes. People may use AI to cheat or skip out on work assignments. But the many uses of AI in higher education, and the changes they portend, beg a much deeper question: As machines become more capable of doing the labor of research and learning, what happens to higher education? What purpose does the university serve?
https://theconversation.com/the-greatest-risk-of-ai-in-higher-education-isnt-cheating-its-the-erosion-of-learning-itself-270243The Committed Innovator: Keeping up with AI and deploying it as it evolves - Nathaniel Whittmore, McKinsey
Adopting AI remains a challenge for most, and the fact that the world of AI is advancing so incredibly rapidly doesn’t help. Nathaniel Whittemore aims to make both adoption and keeping up with change a lot easier. He is the founder and CEO of Superintelligent, the AI enablement platform offering interactive tutorials that provide practical AI education and clear paths to business solutions. He is also the host of the podcast, AI Daily Brief, which seeks to keep its listeners up to date with AI as it evolves. In this episode of The Committed Innovator, McKinsey innovation leader and senior partner Erik Roth speaks with Whittemore about the intersection between Whittemore’s two companies, the challenges of adopting and scaling AI for enterprises, and what he sees in store for AI in 2026.
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