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digitaleconomy.stanford.edu
Free
Report
Hiring Trends & Job Market Data
Context

No Widespread Displacement, but the AI Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%

Published
2026-08-12

Stanford's August 2026 Canaries update describes an employment shortfall among young workers in highly AI-exposed occupations, primarily through reduced hiring. The authors stress these are descriptive patterns, not proof that AI caused the gap.

#ai-jobs#early-career#labor-market
digitaleconomy.stanford.eduAdded Nov 7, 20260 opens
gking.harvard.edu
Free
Research Paper
Technology & Ethics

AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices

Authors
Gary King, Steven Worthington
Venue
Working paper, Harvard University
Published
2026-10-22

Shows that AI-generated article reviews scored better, by every measure the authors constructed, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts judged to be of unusually high quality, and discusses implications for journal policy. Working paper.

#peer-review#publishing#research
gking.harvard.eduAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens
cs.cmu.edu
Free
Research Paper
Research & Papers

Reflections on Trusting Trust

Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award lecture, which shows how a compiler can be altered to insert a hidden backdoor that survives even when the source code looks clean, and asks how far any program can be trusted.

#computer security#compilers#Trojan horse
cs.cmu.eduAdded Oct 22, 20260 opens
wgu.edu
Free
Report
Technology & Ethics

WGU Workforce Decoded 2026: AI Skills and the Future of Hiring

Western Governors University's second annual Workforce Decoded survey of more than 3,100 U.S. hiring professionals, examining how AI is changing the skills employers need and how they verify that candidates actually have them.

#ai-skills#hiring#employers
wgu.eduAdded Oct 21, 20260 opens
jackson.yale.edu
Free
Training Program
Training, Internships & Programs

Yale World Fellows

Yale Jackson School's four-month, full-time residential fellowship for mid-career leaders from around the world.

#fellowship#leadership
jackson.yale.eduAdded Oct 21, 20261 opens
democracypolicylab.berkeley.edu
Free
Report
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Markets Do Not Punish Firms for Maintaining DEI

Working paper from the Berkeley Democracy Policy Lab (Hanna Folsz and Jacob M. Grumbach, September 2026). Finds that S&P 500 firms that kept their DEI programs after the January 2025 executive order performed just as well as firms that complied, in both stock returns and revenue.

democracypolicylab.berkeley.eduAdded Oct 16, 20260 opens
media.mit.edu
Free
Research Paper
Research & Papers

AI-Induced False Memories (MIT Media Lab)

MIT Media Lab project on AI and false memories.

In plain terms: An MIT Media Lab research project studying how conversations with AI chatbots can create false memories in people.

media.mit.eduAdded Oct 16, 20260 opens
brookings.edu
Free
Article
Career & Professional Optimization

Workforce Policy for the Age of AI (Brookings)

Brookings on workforce policy and AI.

In plain terms: Brookings sets out workforce policy options for helping workers adjust to AI.

#role-change
brookings.eduAdded Oct 16, 20260 opens
hai.stanford.edu
Free
Article
AI & Future of Work

Want Employees to Embrace AI? Stop Selling It as a Productivity Tool

Stanford HAI article arguing that framing AI adoption around productivity gains alone undermines employee buy-in, and outlining alternative approaches to workplace AI rollout.

#AI adoption#workplace AI#Stanford HAI
hai.stanford.eduAdded Oct 13, 20260 opens
digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu
Free
Report
AI Policy & Ethics

An AI Policy Isn't a Playbook

A report from the Center for Digital Thriving distinguishing between written AI policies and the practical playbooks organizations and schools need to put those policies into everyday practice, with guidance on closing that gap.

#ai-policy#education#guidance
digitalthriving.gse.harvard.eduAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens
digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu
Free
Research Hub
Research & Papers

Center for Digital Thriving

A research and innovation center based at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, producing research-based resources on how young people and families can thrive in a technology-filled world.

#digital-wellbeing#youth#research
digitalthriving.gse.harvard.eduAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens
news.berkeley.edu
Free
Article
AI & Tech News

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (Berkeley News)

A UC Berkeley news report on a peer-reviewed study, co-authored by Brian Christian and presented at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling, finding that just 10 minutes of relying on an AI tool significantly impaired participants' ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks after the tool was removed.

#ai#education#persistence
news.berkeley.eduAdded Oct 10, 20260 opens
edoras.sdsu.edu
Free
Essay
AI Safety & Ethics

The Coming Technological Singularity (Vernor Vinge)

Vernor Vinge's 1993 essay arguing that the creation of superhuman intelligence would mark a point beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue — the text that popularized the term "technological singularity."

#singularity#vernor-vinge#superintelligence
edoras.sdsu.eduAdded Oct 10, 20260 opens
library.hbs.edu
Free
Article
Workplace & Leadership

Cheating at Work Isn't Just About Character—It's About Conditions (HBS Working Knowledge)

A Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article by Avery Forman (June 8, 2026) on research by Livia Alfonsi. A study of about 5,500 people in Kenya before and during the COVID-19 pandemic found that financial stress made most participants more willing to cheat; the article covers steps companies can take to deter cheating and support employees. Free to read.

#workplace#ethics#research
library.hbs.eduAdded Oct 9, 20260 opens
socialmediahub.mit.edu
Free
Website
Community & Government Resources

MIT Social Media Hub

Directory of 400+ social media accounts run by MIT schools, departments, labs, centers and programs.

#directory
socialmediahub.mit.eduAdded Oct 9, 20260 opens
application.sans.edu
Free
Training
Training

SANS Technology Institute Application Portal

The online application portal for SANS Technology Institute cybersecurity programs: undergraduate and graduate degrees, certificates and single courses. Applying requires a SANS.org account; program questions go to info@sans.edu. The programs themselves charge tuition — see the SANS.edu admissions pages for details.

#cybersecurity#training#education
application.sans.eduAdded Oct 8, 20260 opens
mitsloan.mit.edu
Free
Article
AI & Future of Work

A Framework for Determining When AI Can Make Decisions

Authors
Ina M. Sebastian, Peter Weill, Thomas Haskamp, Jan vom Brocke
Published
2026-09-22

MIT Sloan summary of the AI Decision Matrix from MIT CISR researchers, based on interviews with 30 executives. It sorts decisions by ambiguity and risk: routine, low-risk decisions are candidates for automation, while ambiguous, high-stakes ones need a strong human lead.

#ai#decision-making#management
mitsloan.mit.eduAdded Oct 8, 20260 opens
shapingwork.mit.edu
Free
Research Paper
Research & Papers

Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting

Authors
David Autor, Tanya Rodchenko, Josh Martin, Zanna Iscenko, Scott Strand, David Pearl, Melissa Ferere
Venue
MIT Shaping the Future of Work working paper (not peer-reviewed)
Published
2026-09-01

Working paper (September 2026) from the MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. In a pre-registered randomized trial with 133 practicing patent lawyers at 11 U.S. law firms, AI drafting help raised work quality, with larger gains for junior lawyers; on a later task done without AI, the advantage appeared only among senior lawyers. Not peer-reviewed.

#ai-and-jobs#expertise#field-experiment
shapingwork.mit.eduAdded Oct 7, 20260 opens
poll.qu.edu
Free
Report
Technology & Ethics

Quinnipiac University Poll: The Age of Artificial Intelligence

National Quinnipiac University poll on AI. 73% of respondents said they are concerned about AI as a potential threat to human survival, and 86% support requiring AI companies to meet independent safety standards even if it slows development. Also asks about excitement, day-to-day harm vs. good, local AI data centers and trust in AI company leaders.

#ai-public-opinion#polling#ai-safety
poll.qu.eduAdded Oct 5, 20260 opens
ctsbdc.uconn.edu
Free
Competition
Live Events & Competitions

AI Pitch Competition (Connecticut SBDC)

Nov 12, 2026Connecticut Small Business Development CenterRegister by Oct 16, 2026

Pitch competition for established Connecticut businesses with a practical way to use AI, data or analytics to solve a current business challenge. Competition November 12, 2026, 6-8pm at SCSU School of Business, New Haven, CT. Applications close October 16, 2026.

#pitch-competition#ai#small-business
ctsbdc.uconn.eduAdded Oct 5, 20260 opens
aei.culverhouse.ua.edu
Free
Competition
Live Events & Competitions

River Pitch Competition

Nov 17, 2026Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute

Pitch competition from the Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute at the University of Alabama for innovators and early-stage businesses. Ten $1,000 prizes. November 17, 2026; registration portal is open.

#pitch-competition#entrepreneurship#alabama
aei.culverhouse.ua.eduAdded Oct 5, 20260 opens