🌍 Upcoming AAIA events, a new AI stethoscope, and OpenAI's expansion into India

Inside: Register for global and chapter AI events, watch recent event recordings, and explore key AI news and research updates.

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Applied AI Association
September 08, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 17 minutes

👋 Editor's Note

This week’s newsletter highlights exciting upcoming events, including the AAIA Global Online Series on AI marketing trends, chapters events in Seattle and India, and free courses like Google's 5-day AI Agents Intensive Course. Recent event recordings from AAIA Memphis, India, and Toronto chapters are available for viewing. Industry news includes Workday’s AI-driven growth strategy, rapid AI advances in healthcare diagnostics, AI’s integration into education, regulatory updates from China, and OpenAI’s expanding footprint in India. In addition, you’ll find curated AI news spanning enterprise growth, healthcare innovation, education adoption, global regulation, and robotics, as well as recommended reports and resources on AI rights, misuse detection, and the future of work.

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

📅 Upcoming events:

🗓️ AAIA Global Online Event Series

🗓️ Seattle AAIA Chapter

🗓️ India AAIA Chapter

🗓️ Microsoft AI Tour: Meet the minds shaping the future of AI in business (free)

  • 🗓️ November 10 - 14, 2025

  • Google is offering a free, five-day online AI Agents Intensive course from November 10–14, 2025, which includes daily assignments, live seminars, and a capstone project to help participants build and deploy AI agents. (show me more)

  • 🔗 Learn more and register

📢 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!

📰 In the News:

OpenAI is rapidly expanding in India with plans for major infrastructure investments, new hiring, and local partnerships after CEO Sam Altman's recent visit, positioning the country as the company's second-largest market for ChatGPT usage. (show me more)

Workday's CEO Carl Eschenbach highlights AI as a key driver of growth and transformation by promoting secure, ethical, and responsible AI use, focusing on autonomous AI agents that enhance productivity while ensuring strong governance and employee education in AI ethics. (show me more)

Doctors in London are trialing an AI-powered stethoscope that can rapidly detect heart failure, valve disease, and abnormal heart rhythms in seconds—potentially doubling early diagnosis rates and speeding up life-saving treatment for patients. (show me more)

Maine schools are rapidly integrating generative AI into classrooms—leveraging platforms like MagicSchool to create tailored lesson plans, writing tools, and accessibility features—while state and local districts scramble to establish ethical guidelines, privacy safeguards, and professional development to ensure responsible, transparent use. (show me more)

China’s social media platforms are urgently updating their practices to comply with a new law requiring clear labelling of AI-generated content, reflecting heightened government scrutiny over misinformation and digital safety concerns. (show me more)

OpenAI is rolling out new safety features for ChatGPT to better protect teens and people in emotional crisis, including improved crisis intervention, parental controls, and expert oversight, following recent high-profile incidents and lawsuits involving the AI’s handling of mental health emergencies. (show me more)

Klarna’s push to automate customer support with AI backfired, forcing its engineers and staff to handle service calls directly as the company reversed course on full automation after mounting customer frustrations and poor financial results. (show me more)

Artificial intelligence is now designing unconventional but successful physics experiments, revealing novel insights and enhancing experiment sensitivity in ways human researchers had not previously imagined. (show me more)

OpenAI is developing an AI-powered jobs platform, launching in 2026, to help match candidates and companies with advanced skill assessments and integrated AI certifications—directly challenging Microsoft’s LinkedIn in the employment market. (show me more)

Gen Z workers are experiencing significant anxiety about artificial intelligence in the workplace due to a lack of proper training and support, leading many to hide their AI usage and fear judgment, while organizations are urged to foster better education and collaborative environments to transform AI from a source of stress into an opportunity for growth. (show me more)

📰 Why humanoid robots aren’t advancing as fast as AI chatbots (The Robot Report, September 3, 2025)

Humanoid robots are not advancing as fast as AI chatbots due to a massive "100,000-year data gap" in physical, real-world training data needed for robotic dexterity, with experts emphasizing that traditional engineering combined with data collection from practical deployments is essential, and that current claims of near-term humanoid robot capabilities are overhyped. (show me more)

📰 This Week’s Slighty-off-topic Reads:

Robots are being tested to help herd cattle with advanced sensors and autonomy, but Wyoming ranchers and experts say technology can supplement—but not replace—the unique skills and relationships of real cowboys in challenging environments. (show me more)

Humans are increasingly being hired to fix and improve AI-generated content—including images, writing, and software code—that is often sloppy, incorrect, or insecure, highlighting the continuing need for human expertise despite AI automation efforts. (show me more)

Business Insider removed 40 personal essays amid concerns over fake bylines and possible AI-generated content, after discovering a network of deceptive authors submitting unverifiable stories. (show me more)

🛠️ 📘 Tools, Charts, and Reports Spotlight:

📘 "AI and Fundamental Rights” e-book (Luiza Jarovsky, PhD, LinkedIn post, September 1, 2025)
📘 Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025 (Anthropic, August 27, 2025)

Anthropic’s August 2025 Threat Intelligence Report details recent real-world cases of AI misuse and describes new safety measures to detect and prevent cybercrime, fraud, and malware enabled by advanced models like Claude. (show me more)

Read the report: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/b2a76c6f6992465c09a6f2fce282f6c0cea8c200.pdf

📘 Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence (Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, August, 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)

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