🌍 AAIA Events, Industry Shifts, and Chapter Highlights

Inside: Upcoming events in Memphis, Seattle, and AAIA’s Global Online Event Series, chapter recaps from India & Seattle, and enterprise AI reality check from an MIT study.

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Applied AI Association
August 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 19 minutes

👋 Editor's Note

This week’s newsletter brings together highlights from across the AAIA community and the broader AI landscape. We’ve included upcoming events you won’t want to miss, recent chapter recaps, and a roundup of the latest industry news—from MIT’s findings on generative AI pilots to Epic System’s new healthcare tools and Apple’s enterprise AI updates. You’ll also find thought leadership from our founder, insights into the evolving AI market, and resources to help you stay ahead in this fast-moving field.

Have something to share with the global AAIA community? Send your news, tools, or events to [email protected].

📅 Upcoming events:

🗓️ Memphis AAIA Chapter

🗓️ AAIA Global Online Event Series

🗓️ Seattle AAIA Chapter

📢 AAIA chapter and member news and updates:

🔄 Recap: India AAIA Chapter, Ethics & Responsibilities in the AI World, August 23, 2025, Masters’ Union Campus, DLF Cyberpark, Gurugram

From Gayathri Devi (GD) Jayan, AAIA India Chapter President:

The house started buzzing from 2 pm itself for an event that was to start at 4 pm!

The energy levels kept soaring. We started with hi tea that helped further to energize the crowd!

As we begun the discussion on “ Ethics and Responsibility in AI”, Shruti Nagpal brought the first and most important question about “What is bias?” And what is it to be fair? Her deep research on the subject of ethics in AI was so insightful and thought-provoking!

Followed by her was the next speaker, Kriti Trehan. She brought in the legal aspects of AI implementations. What’s privacy? What’s transparency? When do we realize we are breaching the lines of control? Do we need to be mindful of the lines at all?

Just when the audience were trying to wrap their heads around this, Alok Agrawal spoke about the well-crafted layers in AI technology stack. And how in each layer so much needs to be thought through to build a fair system so that we don’t fall off the guardrails!

Students would not stop questioning the panelists. We truly didn’t want to stop the curious minds and their intelligent & intense questions. It was heartening to see how our nation is in great & safe hands with these kind of students! Kudos to Masters' Union for breeding such high calibre!! Their student Riyansh was part of the panel as a GenZ representative!

Thanks for hosting us MU and making this event a grand success!

🔄 Recap: Seattle AAIA Chapter, AAIA Vibe Coding Happy Hour @ AI House, July 28, 2025

From Boaz Ashkenazy, AAIA Seattle Chapter President:

Fun start to #SeattleTechWeek2025! Put on a great Vibe-Coding happy hour at AI House with Adam Burgh.

Huge thanks to John T. Bender Jessie I. K&L Gates for being lead sponsor and Jeff S. TalentReach and Augmented AI Labs for supporting the Applied AI Association (AAIA) community. Means a lot that you all step up.

Closed down the night with old friends and new ones at the J.P. Morgan Madrona opening night at the Seattle Aquarium. Good to reconnect Andy Liu Shauna Swerland Kristen Hamilton Shannon Swift, SPHR (She, her) Subhadeep Chatterjee

✍️ AAAI Founder’s Corner:  Recent “Future Work Blueprint” posts from AAIA Founder and President Nathan Pettyjohn

📰 In the News:

The MIT report reveals that 95% of generative AI pilots in companies fail to accelerate revenue due to organizational learning gaps and poor integration, with successes mainly seen in startups and companies that partner smartly with specialized AI vendors rather than building in-house solutions. (show me more)

OpenAI will open its first India office in New Delhi this year as part of its commitment to expand AI access and local engagement in one of ChatGPT’s largest markets. (show me more)

General Motors is applying artificial intelligence pragmatically to enhance vehicle design, optimize manufacturing processes, improve factory safety and efficiency with AI-powered cobots and vision systems, and boost productivity and profits across its industrial operations, while cautiously exploring humanoid robotics' future potential. (show me more)

Apple is launching new AI configuration options for enterprises that enable IT administrators to control access to ChatGPT for Enterprise and other external AI providers, along with enhanced business device management and integration tools, with updates arriving in September. (show me more)

A Google Cloud study reveals that 87% of video game developers are using AI agents to automate repetitive tasks, reduce development costs, and enhance creativity amid industry layoffs and rising production challenges, with many seeing AI as transformative but also raising concerns about job impacts and data ownership. (show me more)

Epic Systems showcased approximately 200 new AI-powered features at their 2025 Users Group Meeting, including AI charting tools developed with Microsoft, AI assistants for administrative tasks, and the launch of Cosmos AI foundational models, all aimed at improving care delivery, patient engagement, and streamlining clinical workflows. (show me more)

📰 NHS to trial AI tool that speeds up hospital discharges (The Guardian, August 16, 2025)

The NHS is piloting an AI tool at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital to expedite hospital discharges by automating the drafting of discharge summaries from medical records, aiming to reduce paperwork delays, free up beds, and allow doctors more time for patient care as part of a broader digital transformation in healthcare. (show me more)

A free AI summer camp at Princeton University designed to close the growing AI education divide by providing low-income high school students hands-on experience with AI technology and its applications in solving real-world problems. (show me more)

A Brooklyn high school is using AI technology to enhance student writing by providing personalized feedback and improving learning strategies. (show me more)

📰 Questionable AI work habits rampant among US firms (ComputerWorld, August 15, 2025)

The article reports that questionable and risky AI work habits are widespread among U.S. companies, highlighting concerns over unregulated and potentially unsafe AI usage in the workplace. (show me more)

The article argues that to ensure humans maintain control over increasingly personalized AI systems, it is crucial to establish users' fundamental rights to control and transfer their personal AI data, promoting open, interoperable data portability tools and standards to prevent lock-in and allow choice among AI services. (show me more)

The FieldAI has raised $405 million to accelerate global deployment of its innovative "Field Foundation Models," which enable risk-aware, adaptable robotic intelligence across diverse real-world environments and industries. (show me more)

📰 This Week’s Slighty-off-topic Read:

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam created a social network populated entirely by AI bots and found that, despite trying various intervention strategies, platforms consistently devolved into toxic, polarized echo chambers, suggesting that such dynamics may be inevitable—even with advanced AI moderation. (show me more)

The article explains that both humans and artificial intelligence often make decisions using similar mental shortcuts and biases, leading to shared and sometimes flawed ways of thinking based on the data and patterns humans provide to AI systems. (show me more)

Hollywood’s landmark AI-powered adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" at Las Vegas’ Sphere features a fully immersive cinematic experience, using generative AI and advanced visual effects to transform the 1939 classic for audiences on a giant LED canvas with surround sensory technology. (show me more)

🛠️ 📘 Tools, Charts, and Reports Spotlight:

📘 Generative AI Tech Stack - layer by layer (Andreas Horn, LinkedIn, August 19, 2025)

AI agents are rapidly transforming the U.S. workplace, with new research from Stanford HAI and partners revealing that while workers welcome automation for some tasks, they strongly prefer collaboration and human agency, highlighting major mismatches between current AI investments and actual worker needs across 104 occupations. (show me more)

Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06576

📘 The State of AI 2025 (Bessemer Venture Partners, August 13, 2025)

Bessemer Venture Partners’ "State of AI 2025" distills the latest AI startup benchmarks, emerging investment strategies, and top predictions shaping the future of technology, offering essential insights for founders navigating the evolving AI landscape. (show me more)

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