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The Spacebar – “Ever since ChatGPT’s release in 2022, the tech industry has been in a frenzy to push generative AI anywhere and everywhere. It’s now in every corner of our lives, even outside of direct interactions with technology… but frequently in a negative context. Tech companies wanted “AI” to be the brand for innovation …
The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey. Article Online August 20, 2025. Open access. iScience. Reading has a wide range of benefits for literacy, employment, and health as well as promoting cultural understanding. However, previous monitoring of reading in the US has been inconsistent, with some studies demonstrating …
“What Do Librarians Look Like? Stereotyping of a Profession by Generative AI” SAGE Publications. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. ISSN0961-0006. eISSN1741-6477. Online August 16, 2025. eLocator09610006251357286 “This study aims to investigate the presence of bias in the visual representation of librarians generated by ChatGPT across three different library settings: school, public, and academic. It …
Indicator: “Hilke Schellmann, an assistant professor of journalism at New York University, tested AI tools for summarization and research. Four LLMs were tasked with summarizing local government meetings. They performed well when asked to generate short summaries but were “surprisingly poor” at longer overviews. Schellmann also tested four summarization tools by asking them to generate …
Using an AI model, an engineering team from Texas A&M has mapped the most vulnerable areas of the US power grid. Power outage hot spots are more severe than previously known, according to researchers at Texas A&M who used AI to build a map of at-risk areas around the U.S. The hot spots, including some …
Wired – no paywall – “For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad? Parents, educators, and fellow penmanship advocates have been lamenting the end of handwriting for years. Email began edging out cards and letters decades ago. Then smartphones hit the market, and our reliance on paper …
Open Culture: “You could say that we live in the age of artificial intelligence, although it feels truer about no aspect of our lives than it does of advertising. “If you want to sell something to people today, you call it AI,” says Yuval Noah Harari in the new Big Think video, even if the …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Creators of travel technology powered by artificial intelligence say their tools can make your life easier by doing everything from planning your dream trip to maximizing your loyalty points to telling you about a cool building down the street. But can they really? The answer, after putting some …
Quartz – Poll respondents said they were concerned that “too many people will lose their jobs” because of artificial intelligence. “In fact, 71% are afraid that artificial intelligence will cause permanent job loss, according to a new poll by Reuters and Ipsos. The poll surveyed 4,446 U.S. adults nationwide between August 13 and 18. Respondents …
Fortune: “Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – “Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work. But nobody thought it would happen this quickly. Three years later, the AI transformation is just about complete. By the spring of 2024, almost …
AI In Finance and Banking, August 16, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to …
