AI Risks, Trust, and Human Judgment in a Changing World

Google: The Gemini app for Windows is here (Sep. 10, 2026)
Google launched the Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11.
NY Times: A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That? (Sep. 10, 2026)
Experts warn that advanced A.I. could enable bioweapons, infrastructure attacks, or loss of human control, but these dangers remain hypothetical.
Research Agenda: The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative (Sep. 7, 2026)
The “Waymo effect,” how frictionless technology makes avoiding human interaction feel helpful is seen as AI tools offer convenient, rapid support, but may quietly reduce collaboration, challenge, and exposure to unfamiliar ideas.
WSJ: AI Is Creating New Trust Problems Between Colleagues (Sep. 11, 2026)
Generative AI is creating workplace distrust because rules are unclear, employees hide their use, and people wrongly judge whether colleagues used it.
Inside Higher Ed: Can AI Help Colleges Reach Struggling Students Earlier? (Sep. 11, 2026)
Austin Community College is testing an AI platform that combines student data to identify needs earlier and connect students with support.
WSJ: Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology (Sep. 10, 2026)
As AI reduces demand for traditional tech skills, students may benefit from studying areas that build human judgment and adaptability.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Collaboration or Cheating? The Debate Over AI Use Is Dividing Scholars. (Sep. 11, 2026)
Academics debate acceptable AI use, from editing language to generating nearly all of a paper. Journals increasingly require disclosure, while insisting humans remain responsible for ideas, judgment, and accuracy.
Transformer: Congress must not waste the AI policy window (Sep. 11, 2026)
AI researchers’ warnings about existential risks have pushed Congress to act. A proposed bipartisan bill may weaken stronger state protections, while investigations into the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack grow.
WSJ: How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI Models (Sep. 11, 2026)
Chinese AI firms allegedly routed millions of user queries, including sensitive data, through intermediaries to copy American models, raising safety and sanctions concerns.
WSJ: Anthropic Says Iran Used Its American AI Model to Target U.S. Navy Warships (Sep. 11, 2026)
Anthropic says an Iran-linked group used Claude to track U.S. Navy ships and find weaknesses, highlighting new national-security risks. Its report also details AI-assisted weapons development, biological research, surveillance, disinformation.
WSJ: Congress Is Suddenly Waking Up to the AI Doomsday Threat (Sep. 10, 2026)
Fear of AI’s potential dangers is prompting lawmakers to propose new oversight, safety testing, regulatory agencies, and emergency shutdowns.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane (Sep. 10, 2026)
College leaders promote AI use, but this risks weakening students’ ability to read, think, and write independently. \

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