J. Linn, "What I Learned from Giving 71 Oral Exams in 12 Days," Faculty Focus. 20 April 2026 [Online]. Accessed 23 April 2026.
- Linn briefly describes his process and sentiments about switching from a traditional blue-book final exam to 20 minute oral exams at semester's end. Oral exams are one type of "secure assessment."
B. Pei, J. Lu, Z. Zhang, P. Tuffour, and S. Park, "Enhancing AI literacy for educators: Where to start and to what end?" Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10, p. 100550, Jun. 2026, doi: 10.1016/j.caeai.2026.100550. Accessed 10 April 2026.
- This literature review organizes a framework for building faculty AI literacy upon Bloom's taxonomy. It argues that the psychological work required to gain AI literacy demands collaborative, experiential training.
K. Roose and C Newton (Hosts), "Anthropic's Cybersecurity Shock Wave + Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Their Sam Altman Investigation + One Good Thing," Hard Fork (Podcast), New York Times. 10 April 2026 [Online]. Accessed: 10 April 2026.
- Hard Fork hosts discuss the potential impact of Anthropic's new tool, "Mythos," which that company believes is too dangerous to release to the public, as it can identify and exploit "bugs" in code better than humans can.
J. Kaleem, "A $17-million bet brought ChatGPT to CSU campuses. A year later, AI distrust leaves many divided," LA Times, 1 Apr. 2026. [Online]. Accessed: 14 April 2026.
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The CSU's contract with OpenAI for CSU-wide access to ChatGPT.EDU expires in July 2026. This article examines faculty and student sentiments toward and uses of the tool. A decision about contract renewal has not yet been made, according to Kaleem.
T. Inoue and S. Senk (Hosts), "The Opposite of AI Slop: AI, Journalism, and Government Transparency," My Robot Teacher (Podcast), CalLearningLab.org. 20 March 2026. [Online]. Accessed: 10 April 2026.
- Drs. Inoue and Senk (Cal Poly SLO) interview the creators of Digitaldemocracy.org, a public-interest AI tool that makes California governance transparent, facilitating better-informed voting.
S. Bond and G. Brumfiel, “President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems,” NPR, Feb. 27, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Of the top four "frontier" LLMs, only one insisted that its tools not be used by the government to surveil Americans or to develop autonomous (no human input) wartime weapons: Anthropic. The government is punishing it, and OpenAI is deciding maybe it should resist, too.
K. Roose and C Newton (Hosts), “Is AI eating the labor market? The latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School,” Hard Fork (Podcast), New York Times. Feb. 27, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/podcasts/is-ai-eating-the-labor-market-the-latest-on-the-pentagon-openclaw-and-alpha-school.html. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Hard Fork hosts interview an economist about possible future labor disruptions of unrestrained AI.
A. Z. Rozenshtein, K. Frazier, and A. Askell, “Scaling Laws: Claude’s Constitution, with Amanda Askell,” Lawfare: Scaling Laws
[Podcast]. Feb. 20, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--claude%27s-constitution--with-amanda-askell. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Scaling Law hosts interview Amanda Askell, author of the "Claude Constitution," which guides the LLM's "personality." Their questions are pertinent to law.
Gates Foundation, “Philanthropic Partnership Backs Country-Led Research to Guide the Use of AI in Health,” Gates Foundation (Press Release), Feb. 20, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2026/02/ai-impact-health. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- The Gates Foundation and other philanthropists are contributing $60 million to study the impact of AI on health in low- and medium-income countries as part of the Evidence for AI in Health (EVAH) initiative.
M. Shumer, “Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided,” Fortune, Feb. 11, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/something-big-is-happening-ai-february-2020-moment-matt-shumer/. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- This viral article written by a software developer extrapolates the job losses he sees in his field to all white collar work; he caused a drop in the stock market with his arguments.
L. Harrell, “How AI trained on birds is surfacing underwater mysteries,” Google Research Blog, Feb. 9, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://research.google/blog/how-ai-trained-on-birds-is-surfacing-underwater-mysteries/. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Scientists discovered that their AI tool, trained on birds, can help them classify whale songs, too.
