In an era where headlines about artificial intelligence swing between utopian promises and dystopian warnings, we're missing perhaps the most profound opportunity of all: using AI to help us become better humans. This isn't about outsourcing our humanity. It's about leveraging technology to amplify our uniquely human capacities for care, support, learning, engagement, and love. As AI systems grow more capable, our ability to be deeply, authentically human becomes not just valuable; it becomes imperative.
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
SUPERAGENCY: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future" - Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, Superagency
Superagency, by Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, presents an optimistic view of AI's future, focusing on its potential to amplify human capabilities and improve society. Rather than dwelling on dystopian scenarios, the book explores how AI can enhance individual agency, enabling people to achieve more in areas like education, healthcare, and problem-solving. It advocates for an inclusive and adaptive approach to AI, emphasizing its role as a tool for positive change and encouraging readers to actively participate in shaping a future where human ingenuity and AI work in synergy. (summary by Gemini 2.0 Flash)
The rise of the AI manager - Tigran Sloyan, Fast Company
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Innovation and Collaboration in Higher Education During Challenging Times - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
Anthropic just gave Claude a superpower: real-time web search. Here’s why it changes everything - Michael Nuñez, Venture Beat
Anthropic announced today that its AI assistant Claude can now search and process information from the internet in real-time, addressing one of users’ most requested features and closing a critical competitive gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new web search capability, available immediately for paid Claude users in the United States, transforms the AI assistant from a tool limited by its training data cutoff to one that can access and synthesize the latest information across the web. “With web search, Claude has access to the latest events and information, boosting its accuracy on tasks that benefit from the most recent data,” Anthropic said in its announcement. The company emphasized that Claude will provide direct citations to sources, allowing users to fact-check information— a direct response to growing concerns about AI hallucinations and misinformation.
New ways to collaborate and get creative with Gemini - the Keyword, Google
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Human Augmentation: The Core Promise of AI - Lee Ott,Tech Crunch
More than 7 in 10 College Students and Administrators Seek AI Agents to Close Support Gaps, Ease Burnout - Salesforce
Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks - Maxwell Zeff, Tech Crunch
Monday, March 31, 2025
AI's Moore's Law: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
Adobe previews AI generated PowerPoints from raw customer data with ‘Project Slide Wow’ - Carl Franzen, Venture Beat
For businesses that rely on data-driven decision-making, Project Slide Wow could be a major step forward in simplifying the process of building presentations. If the tool gains traction, it may soon be available as an official Adobe product—potentially transforming how companies use customer data to inform strategy. Until then, CTOs, CIOs, team leads, and analysts should stay tuned for Adobe’s Sneaks announcements to see whether Project Slide Wow makes the leap from experimental demo to real-world enterprise solution.