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University launches new AI studio in Davis library – The Daily Tar Heel

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University launches new AI studio in Davis library

Photo by Cassidy Toy Reynolds / The Daily Tar Heel

By Mariah Temple, Published Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025

On Aug. 18, University Libraries launched its new Library AI Studio, where students can gather to learn about rapidly growing information technology and experiment with its tools. The physical space, located on the second floor of Davis Library, provides a hands-on experience with artificial intelligence.

María Estorino, vice provost of University Libraries and the University librarian, said that generative AI is just another aspect of what the library has always sought to provide for students — access to knowledge along with the tools used to create and generate it. 

Equipped with experts available from 12 to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, the studio is an information center designed for the community …

'Microsoft Word now autosaves to OneDrive. Is your data safe?' https://proton.me/blog/microsoft-word-autosave-onedrive-default

'What Microsoft doesn’t say in its announcement is just as important as what it does. Automatically saving your documents to OneDrive means your work documents, legal agreements, or other sensitive data are uploaded straight to Microsoft’s servers. When that happens, you lose control of how your data is stored, who has access, and whether it’s used for other purposes like targeted ads or AI training.

OneDrive encrypts your documents while they’re being transferred (in transit) and stored (at rest). But it doesn’t use end-to-end encryption, which means that Microsoft can read your data, analyze it, and share it with third parties, which is allowed under Microsoft’s privacy policy. Historically, when a company has this level of access, mistakes and account suspensions have occurred that can have real consequences.'

Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• Responses to CEO @coachtony on how can use to tell human stories

• Blind photographer Lawrence Lazare on challenges and workarounds

• VP @mmcwatters on and

• Ruchama on how her dad’s fabricated stories shaped her

• Pavel Samsonov on strategy for online

https://medium.com/blog/what-medium-writers-think-about-ai-tools-1d8cb03c21f6

Story by Lawrence Lazare titled “A Blind Photographer? Hmmm, How Does THAT Work?” and black and white self-portrait of the author in a mirror, standing behind a film camera on a tripod, clicking the shutter release
Story by Linda Caroll titled “A Letter To The CEO About AI” and illustration of a person standing in a desolate landscape, facing a giant, tilted, cracked bald head with glowing eyes and birds flying above
Story by Pavel Samsonov titled “Standing out through writing” and slightly altered screenshot from the movie "Zoolander", with the title character looking closely at a scale model of the “Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Post Good And Who Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too”
Story by Michael McWatters titled “Three hours of vibe design” and artistic illustration with stripes of bright colors on a dark background

Security by Design in der -: Wie kann man einen -Agent schon in der Entwicklungsphase - also "by design" - so härten, dass Manipulationen wie Prompt Injection nach Möglichkeit ausgeschlossen sind?

Ein vor Kurzem erschienenes Paper formuliert hierzu einige interessante Ansätze, indem Entwurfsmuster entwickelt werden, die schon strukturell einschränken, was ein Agent mit nicht vertrauenswürdigen Eingaben tun kann , z.B. durch :

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08837

“I Am An AI Hater”, by Anthony Moser:
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

> I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life. AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.