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
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.
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.
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.
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
Stanford HAI article arguing that framing AI adoption around productivity gains alone undermines employee buy-in, and outlining alternative approaches to workplace AI rollout.
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
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
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.
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."
A Harvard SEAS graduate course on modern AI systems, covering agents and system optimizations. Course materials are publicly available on the course site.
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.
Harvard Kennedy School interview with faculty member and computer scientist Stephen Casper on why AI safety reaches beyond a technical problem and how anyone can get informed about AI governance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.