Tech-Neill-ogy #97 - 22 June 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
June 23, 2025

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #97!

I hope you all are heading into your summer break if not already into it. I saw readership plummet significantly last week, so I hope that means you’re on holiday! I’m here in New York for the next week for the College Board Summer Institute for International Counselors, for which I serve as a faculty member. So a little work this week before a couple more weeks off.

For this week’s newsletter, if you’re going to look at just one thing, look at the Final Exam section as I share a new-to-me feature in ChatGPT that has tremendous potential… which I cannot quite yet even get my mind around! Take a look…

For now, though, enjoy the newsletter!

How not to lose your job to AI

Around half of people are worried they'll lose their job to AI. And they're right to be concerned: AI can now complete real-world coding tasks on GitHub, generate photorealistic video, drive a taxi more safely than humans, and do accurate medical diagnosis. And it's set to continue to improve rapidly. But what's less appreciated is that, while AI drives down the value of skills it can do, it drives up the value of skills it can't— because they become the bottlenecks to further automation (for a while at least).

80000hours.org/agi/guide/skills-ai-makes-valuable

You sound like ChatGPT

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage

AI agents win over professionals - but only to do their grunt work, Stanford study finds

The research shines new light on the future of human-AI collaboration in the workplace.

www.zdnet.com/article/ai-agents-win-over-professionals-but-only-to-do-their-grunt-work-stanford-study-finds

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says people are underestimating AI's impact on jobs, but it won't be a 'bloodbath'

Reid Hoffman said that AI will transform not eliminate jobs, countering predictions by Anthropic's CEO that white-collar jobs will soon vanish.

www.businessinsider.com/reid-hoffman-linkedin-ai-transform-job-market-not-bloodbath-anthropic-2025-6

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Here’s another “game-changer” that I’m only beginning to grasp. This is a pretty simple example of how you can ask ChatGPT to repeat a task for you! Take a look: 

I need you to set up a weekly task. Every Monday at 8am Brazil time, you will use your web search feature to find the most interesting news stories in the field of high school college counseling and university admissions since the last task run was performed. 

Here's what you'll do with the results: 

Provide me with a 100 word summary of the top three news articles that I can copy and paste into a newsletter for my subscribers. Each summary should have a source link to the original article and focus on the relevance to a high school college counselor.

I have the ChatGPT app downloaded on my Mac, so when this task is completed, I get a notification on my screen, and the output is found within the thread of the original prompt above.

Of course, I pay for the Pro version of ChatGPT (the US$20 per month one), and so I’m not 100% sure if this feature is only for pay users, but imagine the ways in which this functionality could be used in other ways. I need to do some more thinking about this, but if you have any ideas, please let me know!

Also, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

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That’s it for this week, but before I go, here’s a non-tech article I found to be interesting:

Why High School Counselors Hold the Keys to College Access

High school counselors are critical guides to college for first-gen, rural, and underserved students. Learn why supporting counselors is key to improving college access and enrollment.

www.ruffalonl.com/blog/enrollment/why-high-school-counselors-hold-the-keys-to-college-access-and-how-colleges-can-reach-them

This piece, in particular, stood out: “By grade, even 9th graders tune in early: 82% use counselor advice, and 88% find it helpful.” I hope others see this as a call to advocate for additional contact time with younger students!

Enjoy your week! Happy counseling!

Jeff