🌍 Upcoming AAIA Events, New Maine Chapter, and Industry Insights

Inside: Join us for AAIA events in September, meet our new Maine Chapter President, and explore the latest AI trends.

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August 31, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 19 minutes

👋 Editor's Note

We are excited to share a lineup of upcoming events, including the AAIA Global Online Series, an in-person event in Seattle, event recaps, and introduce Jordan W. Henry, our new Maine Chapter President. This week features new research on AI’s impact on employment, alongside significant industry developments. A Stanford study reveals that AI adoption has contributed to a 13% decline in jobs for entry-level workers aged 22–25, while more experienced employees remain largely unaffected. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley projects that AI could save S&P 500 companies nearly $1 trillion annually through automation. On the innovation front, Nvidia launched its $3,499 Jetson Thor “robot brain” for advanced robotics applications, and Accenture’s CEO stressed that Fortune 500 companies must pursue complete reinvention, not just AI add-ons, to withstand ongoing transformation. The data is clear: AI’s workplace impact is accelerating. The question isn’t whether change is coming; it’s how organizations and workers will adapt to shape the future.

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📅 Upcoming events:

🗓️ AAIA Global Online Event Series

🗓️ Seattle AAIA Chapter

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

📢 AAIA chapter and member news and updates:

🌟 AAIA New Chapter Spotlight: AAIA is pleased to announce that Jordan W. Henry has been appointed as AAIA Chapter President for ​​Maine, USA

About Jordan:

Jordan W. Henry is a results-oriented leader with a strong background in healthcare administration, managed care, and emergency management. He has a deep expertise in AI ethics, governance, and public health preparedness. His educational background includes a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership from the University of Maine and a Master of Healthcare Administration from Seton Hall University. He has also completed numerous certifications in AI, including ""Artificial Intelligence in Health Care"" from MIT Sloan School of Management, ""Responsible GenAI"" from the University of Michigan, and ""AI in Healthcare"" from Stanford University. As the Founder and AI Ethicist of Veritas AI Consulting Firm, he guides healthcare organizations in navigating the complexities of AI adoption. He also serves on multiple boards and advisory roles for companies innovating in the healthcare sector, with a focus on AI health and MedTech.

💬 Reflecting on his new role, Jordan said:

"The ubiquitous adoption of AI is accelerating at a rapid pace week over week; I am excited to bring this amazing technological renaissance to the state of Maine and hope to grow our chapter into an innovative and collaborative AI hub!

In the upcoming year, I hope to set a strong foundation, building strategic partnerships, while facilitating engaging and informative programming!"

Welcome aboard, Jordan!

🔄 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!

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

📰 In the News:

Nvidia has launched Jetson Thor, a $3,499 advanced robotics developer kit powered by the Blackwell GPU, designed to significantly enhance AI computing and energy efficiency for physical AI applications across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and robotics, with early adoption by major players such as Meta, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon Robotics. (show me more)

Reliance Industries announced new partnerships with Google and Meta, launching a subsidiary called Reliance Intelligence to accelerate India's AI infrastructure through a $100 million joint venture for enterprise AI solutions and dedicated cloud services powered by renewable energy and advanced technology. (show me more)

The article features an in-depth interview with Accenture CEO Julie Sweet discussing how Fortune 500 companies can survive and thrive in the AI era by embracing bold reinvention, leadership lessons from her career and health battles, and her prediction of the arrival of super intelligent AI within a decade.

“So what it takes is reinvention, and that is where I spend a lot of time making sure that companies understand what that means. This isn’t about using AI on top of what you do today. If you’re not significantly changing the way you operate, then you’re not reinventing, and you’re not going to capture the value.” (show me more)

The Stanford study reveals that the widespread adoption of generative AI since late 2022 has caused a significant 13% decline in employment for entry-level workers aged 22 to 25 in the U.S., particularly in AI-exposed occupations like software development and customer service, while more experienced workers’ employment remains stable or grows. (show me more)

Morgan Stanley projects that widespread adoption of AI software and robots could save S&P 500 companies nearly $1 trillion a year—about 28% of 2026 pretax earnings—mainly through automation-driven payroll reductions and efficiency gains, while also reshaping job roles and creating new opportunities over the coming years. (show me more)

The UN General Assembly has adopted terms of reference for an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and a Global Dialogue on AI Governance, establishing new mechanisms for scientific assessment and global cooperation on AI policy and oversight. (show me more)

Alpha Schools is expanding its AI-driven private school model across the U.S., offering a personalized, two-hour core curriculum supported by AI and life skills workshops, as an alternative to traditional education with a focus on mastery and practical skills development. (show me more)

Meta is updating its AI chatbot policies to prevent engagement with teens on sensitive topics like self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, and inappropriate romantic conversations, while restricting teen access to only age-appropriate AI characters following recent safety concerns and regulatory scrutiny. (show me more)

A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude to automate an unprecedented cybercrime spree, using it to identify, infiltrate, and extort at least 17 companies through tasks like target selection, malware creation, and drafting ransom demands. (show me more)

Perplexity AI is launching a $42.5 million revenue-sharing program through its new Comet Plus subscription tier, compensating media publishers when their content is used in AI-powered search results and browser activities to address legal and ethical concerns over content use. (show me more)

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

Anthropic’s joint alignment evaluation with OpenAI reveals that while both companies’ advanced AI models generally avoid egregious misalignment, concerning behaviors, especially around misuse, sycophancy, and ethical lapses, remain common in simulated stress-test scenarios, highlighting the urgent need for stronger alignment and oversight methods for frontier models. (show me more)

📰 Why Is AI-Associated Psychosis Happening and Who's at Risk? (Psychology Today, August 22, 2025)

Anthropic’s The article explores the emerging phenomenon of AI-associated psychosis, where AI chatbots may contribute to delusional beliefs in some users by validating fringe ideas, and discusses the potential risk factors and misunderstood nature of AI's role in this mental health issue. (show me more)

📰 AI is going bananas… [“Nano Banana,” aka Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image], (Endrit Restelica, LinkedIn post, August 27, 2025)

🛠️ 📘 Tools, Charts, and Reports Spotlight:

📘 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)

📘 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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