A. Myers, "AI Coding Agents Fail at Teamwork," Stanford HAI, 1 June 2026. [Online]. Available: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-coding-agents-fail-at-teamwork. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- This short review of a linked preprint should dampen excitement to team AI agents for automated work, as doing so actually increases error rates. Gives hope for keeping humans in the loop — and employed.
S. Johnson, "Cognitive Uploading," Adjacent Possible (Substack), 2 June 2026. [Online]. Available: https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/cognitive-uploading. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- In this opinion piece analyzing UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy, Johnson wonders — and then models — what "cognitive uploading" (his term) might look like. Johnson, co-creator of Google's NotebookLM, is surely biased, but his demonstration of using AI to learn more is illustrative.
K. Matussek and L. Avetisyan, "AI Shakes Up Big Law, Threatening the Billable Hour," Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-06-01/ai-shakes-up-big-law-threatening-billable-hour. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Tech-savvy and well-resourced law firms are building AI platforms to reduce "drudge work," imperiling entry-level jobs and the billable hour. Human judgment "remains crucial."
B. Pittser, "The Latest Findings in AI and Learning — June 2026," Filament Games Blog, 3 June 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.filamentgames.com/blog/the-latest-findings-in-ai-and-learning-june-2026/. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: A UC Berkeley study of over half a million enrollments found a 30 percent spike in "A" grades since chatbots entered the market, concentrated in unsupervised take-home work. The piece rounds up six recent research findings on AI and learning outcomes.
T. Lyttelton, M. Massenkoff, and N. Wilmers, "Coding Agents in the Social Sciences," Anthropic, 27 May 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.anthropic.com/research/coding-agents-social-sciences. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- A survey of 1,260 social scientists reveals gender and Carnegie classification differences in coding-agent adoption, as well as a difference in the number of papers posted by those using coding agents versus those not using them.
"How AI Is Transforming Scientific Discovery While Keeping Humans at the Center," Stanford HAI, 27 May 2026. [Online]. Available: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-ai-is-transforming-scientific-discovery-while-keeping-humans-at-the-center. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: Researchers at Stanford HAI's "AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery" conference compared AI's potential impact on science to that of the telescope and microscope. Unlike those tools, they noted, AI doesn't just let scientists see things — it helps them find patterns in datasets too large for the human mind.
K. Frazier, A. Khan, and R. Trattner (Hosts), "HAGS (with AI): How AI Tools Are Shaping Education with Adeel Khan and Ryan Trattner," Scaling Laws (Podcast), Lawfare. 26 May 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--hags-(with-ai)--how-ai-tools-are-shaping-education-with-adeel-khan-and-ryan-trattner. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: The founders of MagicSchool AI and StudyFetch join Lawfare's AI Innovation and Law Fellow to discuss AI's rapid integration into education — from automating lesson planning to personalized tutoring — and the regulatory and data-protection challenges that come with it.
R. Winthrop, "Is It Time to Measure Cognitive Stunting?" Brookings Institution, 22 May 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.brookings.edu. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: Winthrop asks whether AI overuse is quietly degrading students' cognitive development, and whether we yet have tools to measure the damage. A useful companion to the UC Berkeley grade-inflation study above.
K. Roose and C. Newton (Hosts), "AI Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express," Hard Fork (Podcast), New York Times. 15 May 2026. [Online]. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Roose and Newton discuss the U.S. Administration's sudden interest in regulating AI development and interview a cybersecurity expert regarding the potential dangers of tools like Anthropic's Mythos.
A. Diaz, "SAG-AFTRA's AI Deal Shows That Hollywood Still Values Human Actors," IndieWire, ~14 May 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/sag-aftra-ai-deal-2026-human-actors-analysis-1235194299/. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: A thoughtful analysis of what the new contract does — and doesn't — deliver for working actors, given that an outright ban on synthetic performers was not achieved.
"AI Academic Integrity: Challenges, Risks, and Ethical AI Use in Education," The Education Magazine, May 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.theeducationmagazine.com/ai-academic-integrity/. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's Summary: AI-related misconduct now accounts for 60–64 percent of all cheating cases in higher education globally, a nearly 400 percent increase in three years. Detection tools remain unreliable, and students are increasingly evading them by mixing AI and human writing.
K. Frazier and G. McCormick (Hosts), "Facts & Myths About AI's Energy Usage with Gavin McCormick," Scaling Laws (Podcast), Lawfare. 24 Apr. 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--facts---myths-about-ai's-energy-usage-with-gavin-mccormick. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Does AI use a lot of energy? Yes. Is all that energy use equal? No. McCormick, founder of ClimateTrace, explains how renewable energy use and market-driven strategies can and have driven down — or even neutralized — AI's environmental footprint.
"AI in Litigation Series: An Update on AI Copyright Cases in 2026," Norton Rose Fulbright, updated June 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/ce8eaa5f/ai-in-litigation-series-an-update-on-ai-copyright-cases-in-2026. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: In March 2026, the Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that copyright requires human authorship. This article surveys six consequential AI copyright cases, including the Anthropic training-data suit, which was resolved after the company acquired the disputed books legally.
OECD, Digital Education Outlook 2026, OECD Publishing, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-digital-education-outlook-2026_062a7394-en.html. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's summary: The OECD's major 2026 report finds that GenAI boosts task performance but does not necessarily produce learning gains when used without clear pedagogical guidance. A majority of lower-secondary teachers surveyed believe AI enables students to pass off machine-generated work as their own.
"AI and Innovation with Intention," AALL Spectrum (American Association of Law Libraries), May/June 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.aallnet.org/spectrum_issue/may-june-2026/. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
Claude's summary: This issue focuses on how law librarians are navigating AI adoption through human-centered, ethically grounded frameworks. One of several professional communities now actively codifying what responsible AI use looks like in practice.
T. Inoue and S. Senk (Hosts), "How to Talk About AI in Higher Education: April Lawson on Insight Debate & Dialogue," My Robot Teacher (Podcast), ep. 13, CalLearningLab.org. [Online]. Available: https://calearninglab.org/myrobotteacher/mrt13/. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- The emergence of generative AI is dividing faculty on campuses nationwide. April Lawson teaches faculty how to talk about it in ways that promote growth rather than division.
Anthropic, "Claude's Constitution," Anthropic. [Online]. Available: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution. Accessed: June 5, 2026.
- Claude's "Constitution," written primarily by a philosopher, directs this chatbot's behavior. This page offers a summary and blog post about the Constitution, as well as a link to the full document.
