For those of you perhaps reluctantly embracing GenAI in your classes this fall, I have put together an essay with some general principles and annotated resources on what makes for a responsible AI classroom. medium.com/@bruceclarkprof/f…

Ethan Mollick on the "bitter lesson" he has learned about agents. Thoughtful as always. One idea that particularly struck me is that a lot of management is designed to solve what is called the "principal-agent" problem. AI agents may upend or change that buff.ly/8C3yo4L

Committee status report:

How are you when it comes to accepting compliments? My relationship with compliments was ‘awkward’ for decades. But instead of continuing to respond to compliments with cheesy one-liners like “Oh you’re too kind,” I’ve gone through some work to actually listen to compliments, acknowledge them with gratitude, accept them, and internalize them so I continue to improve while staying humble. Here’s what I learned: • Listening to a compliment is an essential first step. People don’t dole out compliments willy nilly. If someone is going to speak into my life, I give them my full attention. Phones down, distractions put away. • Acknowledging a compliment is simple. If a compliment is received in person, make eye contact and say, “Thank you.” Often, I will also explain why I’m grateful for the compliment. For example, “Thank you for recognizing the hard work I’ve done. I often hope others see the value in what I do as you just did.” • Accepting a compliment is not a visible action. It's an intentional decision to remember the compliment, the complimenter, and the context in which I received it. • Internalizing a compliment is a process of integration. When I internalize a compliment, it becomes another piece of evidence I use to counter a negative internal thought or a negative comment. I hope this helps you, if you struggle to accept compliments.

"She was going to a frat house, she knew what she was going to get." Oh yeah? If that's what frat houses are for, close them all entirely, immediately.

News creators might want to pay attention to. It turns out Google can estimate how much a given site contributes to an AI overview and pay them theinformation.com/articles/…

Don’t Let AI Short-Circuit Students’ Curiosity. For those of you looking for thinking exercises in class that use AI, this is an interesting example buff.ly/LyFgITC

Come for the academic joke, stay for the hilarious thread of comments

I spoke with @alanblinder about why transparency and disclosure matter when faculty use AI with students. For me, it is about trust and creating a social contract for AI usage centered on voluntary transparency, not black box AI detection or gotcha moments.

Nobody comes off looking great in this article, but Open AI really looks bad theatlantic.com/technology/2…

First person to get 3 cones wins. A very tired mother invented this game! 😂😂

Generative AI can’t predict cultural changes because they’re archives. Marketers need to understand that.

It's not whether AI is good but whether AI is good for your work. Advice here on how to create a personal AI benchmark. TLDR: Start with the tasks AI got wrong. Turn taste into tests. Validate your benchmark. buff.ly/7XwVMhJ

News you may be able to use malwarebytes.com/blog/bugs/2… via @Malwarebytes

A snapshot of where we are with AI agents from a sensible boundary spanner between what tech promises and how humans actually live and behave. buff.ly/zwYT3Sn

To misquote James Carville: "It's the distribution, stupid." It's not that people are uncreative. It's that algorithmic distribution aggressively marginalizes the variant. buff.ly/SsxZvdp

This is your official end-of-the-month reminder to go cancel that random subscription you used exactly once. You're welcome.

It’s incredible that I never knew SPAM was an acronym. Damn.

Catcher in the Rye suggests the existence of Pitcher in the Rye, Shortstop in the Rye, First Baseman in the Rye, indeed a whole "In the Rye Literary Universe", as it were Salinger left us the breadcrumbs; the world only lacks men of will to follow them

The Chinese perspective on AI safety, this article argues, differs for both political and cultural reasons nytimes.com/2026/09/27/world…