AI in the Academic Setting

News articles are being generated on this topic nearly every day (list is by most recent first).  We will update frequently so please check back!

• What I learned serving on my university's AI committee
• Will the humanities survive AI? (The New Yorker subscription required)
• 2025 EDUCAUSE AI landscape study: Into the digital AI divide
• AI is getting more powerful but its hallucinations are getting worse
• This AI forecast predicts storms ahead
• Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition atrophied and unprepared
• Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
• OpenAI unveils AI agent that can use websites on its own
• Scholars are supposed to say when they use AI.  Do they?
• AI means the end of internet search as we've known it
• Evolution journal editors resign en masse
• AI outrage: Error-ridden Indigenous language guides do real harm, advocates say
• Harvard is releasing a massive free AI training dataset funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
• Stop using generative AI as a search engine
• AI's hunger for electric power is threatening US climate goals
• The death of search (The Atlantic subscription required; Free subscription via Oxy library!)
• Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff
• Biden adminstration outlines government guardrails for AI tools
• Wall Street Journal, New York Post sue Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity as AI battle rages
• OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157 billion
• Will AI be a bust? A Wall Street skeptic rings the alarm
• OpenAI unveils new ChatGPT that can reason through math and science
• Leading AI models struggle to identify genetic conditions from patient-written descriptions
• A California bill to regulate AI causes alarm in Silicon Valley
• AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists responde?
• AI models fed AI generated data quickly spew nonsense
• CCC Press Release on AI Re-Use Rights
• Will AI go the way of the Roomba?
• AI has become a technology of faith (use your free Oxy access to The Atlantic to read this!)
• The RIAA versus AI, explained
• What the arrival of AI phones and computers means for our data
• AI is getting better fast.  Can you tell what's real now? (NY Times quiz)
• How to fix AI's 'original sin'
• AI took their jobs.  Now they get paid to make it sound human
• Introducing Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models at the core of iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• AI and the death of student writing (from the Chronicle of Higher Education--you have free access to the Chronicle. Just register for a free account on their website using your Oxy email.  Once you do, then you'll be signed in and will see a message in the upper left of the page stating that access is provided by Oxy!)

• What's next for AI at DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence lab (60 Minutes piece)
• Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research
• No one is talking about AI's impact on reading
• Information Literacy and chatbots as search
• Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (videos and podcasts)
• AI is ruining the internet (YouTube video)
• The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI
• Beyond Discovery: AI and the future of the Web of Science
• A conversation with Dr. Safiya Noble: New challenges in DEI, technology, and libraries (webinar)
• The Batch (news/blogposts from DeepLearning.AI)
• How should I be using AI right now? (Ezra Klein (NY Times) podcast with Ethan Mollick)
• ChatGPT as a tool for library research
• How will AI affect the 2024 elections? (podcast from the Center for Humane Technology)
• Lorcan Dempsey's blog (Professor in the Information School at University of Washington)
• In Machines We Trust
• The fall of creativity: A librarian's role in the world of AI
• Suspicion, Cheating and Bans: A.I. hits America's schools (The Daily podcast from the New York Times)
• Rethinking Assessment for Generative AI: Orals and discussions (Leon Fruze blog)
• ChatGPT is not intelligent-Podcast with Emily Bender
• Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of content
• A Generative AI Primer (from Jisc)
• Eugene Volokh (UCLA Professor of Law): A Lawyer's Filing is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases
• Critical AI blog site
• Hidden Door: How Does ChatGPT really work?
• SAIL (Sensemaking, AI, and Learning) - AI and education blog
• Stanford Internet Observatory: Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns

In order to understand the origins and evolution of chatbot technology, it may be useful to review the following:

• A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines
• New ChatGPT version aiming at higher ed
• OpenAI says it has begun training a new flagship AI model
• OpenAI unveils new ChatGPT that listens, looks, and talks
• It's the end of the web as we know it
• Google books is indexing AI generated garbage
• OpenAI debuts voice cloning tool but deems it too risky for public release
• The UN approves its first resolution on artificial intelligence
• The Conversation: Articles on Generative AI
• OpenAI unveils Sora, an AI that instantly generates eye-popping videos
• OpenAI gives ChatGPT a better 'memory'
• Generative AI has a visual plagiarism problem
• All Science journals will now do an AI powered check for image fraud

• Microsoft announces AI key on Windows 11 PCs
• These scientists aren't using ChatGPT-here's why
• New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for 'billions'
• Cheating fears over chatbots were overblown, new research suggests (survey done with high school students)
• Apple is secretly spending big on a ChatGPT rival that will reinvent Siri and AppleCare
• Google launches Gemini, its most advanced AI model yet, as it races to compete with ChatGPT
• ChatGPT is one-year old. Here's how it changed the tech world.

• No, you're not that good at detecting fake videos..
• How antisemitic hate groups are using artificial intelligence in the wake of Hamas attacks
• This is how AI image generators see the world
• Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Fact Sheet: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
• Music lyrics lawsuit could set AI copyright precedent
• Researchers say guardrails built around AI systems are not so sturdy (NY Times subscription may be required)
• AI's Language Gap
• I asked Meta's AI chatbot what it thought of my books.  What I learned was unsettling.
• The Decoder (AI news site)
• ChatGPT can now access up to date information
• Copyright and Generative AI: Our vews today (opinion piece from Authors Alliance)

• AI is killing the grand bargain at the heart of the web
• AI is biased.  The White House is working with hackers to try to fix that
• Use of AI is Seeping Into Academic Journals-and It's Proving Difficult to Detect
• Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to 'ChatGPT-proof' assignments
• IBM researchers easily trick ChatGPT into hacking
• New AI systems collide with copyright law
• ChatGPT is this generation's Wikipedia. We have an opportunity to learn from the past (opinion piece)
• Plan for Senate regulation of AI
• How AI art killed an indie book cover contest
• ChatGPT? We need to talk about LLMs
• The AI Takeover of Google Search Starts Now
• Professors are grappling with an excruciating assignment
• ChatGPT is nothing like a human says linguist Emily Bender
• Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT (NY Times subscription may be required)

• ChatGPT: Artificial intelligence, chatbots, and a world of unknowns (60 Minutes episode via YouTube)
• Amazon is investing heavily in the technology behind chatgpt
• Microsoft Security Copilot
• Why are we letting the AI crisis just happen? (The Atlantic subscription may be required)

• What have humans just unleashed? (The Atlantic subscription may be required)
• Chatbots trigger next misinformation nightmare
• Mozilla launches "Responsible AI" challenge

• A Conversation with Bing's chatbot left me deeply unsettled (NY Times subscription may be required)
• Bing's Revenge and Google's A.I. Face-plant (NY Times podcast, 2/10/23)
• ChatGPT's edge: We want to believe
• I asked Microsoft's 'new Bing' to write me a cover letter for a job.  It refused, saying this would be 'unethical' and 'unfair to other applicants.'
• ChatGPT Explains Why AIs Like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated
• A.I. Bots Can't Report This Column.  But They Can Improve It. (NY Times subscription may be required)

• AI bot ChatGPT writes smart essays-should professors worry?
• What ChatGPT can't do
• What's next for ChatGPT?
• AI powered lawyer bot
• Real estate agents say they can't imagine working without chatGPT now
• Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach (NY Times subscription may be required)
• Google unveils its chatGPT rival

• How to Talk to ChatGPT, the Uncanny AI-fueled Chatbot That Makes a Lot of Stuff Up
• Why Everyone's Obsessed with ChatGPT, a Mind Blowing AI Chatbot
• How Large Large Language Models Will Transform Society, Science, and AI