AI and Research

Opportunities

• Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria
• AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine

Regulations

• Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
• National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Page

Privacy and Copyright Concerns

• Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
• ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare, and we ought to be concerned
• Research finds ChatGPT & Bard headed for 'Model Collapse'
• We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.

Environmental

• Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
• Considering the Environmental Impacts of Generative AI to Spark Responsible Development

Information Literacy

• Building an AI Literacy Framework: Perspectives from Instruction Librarians and Current Information Literacy Tools
• Producing more but understanding less: The risks of AI for scientific research
• Annette Vee on AI Critical Literacy – Approach that helps you sort through appropriate uses, what they mean for society, and take nuanced perspectives of using technology

Critical AI perspectives from faculty involved with AAC&U's institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum

• Data & Society – A non-profit research organization focused on the social implications of data, automation, and AIto ground informed public debate about emerging technology.
• AI Weirdness blog & book,You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
• Brene Brown talks with Futurist Amy Webb on What's Coming (and What's Here)on Unlocking Us podcast
• Joy Buolamwini, on the ways that AI image recognition is biased, in “AI, Ain't I a Woman?” (2.5 min video) and book, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines
• “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru et al, FAccT ‘21 (early academic article outlining some of the risks of LLMs)
• The New Yorker Radio Hour, “Should we, and can we, put the brakes on artificial intelligence?” (and ongoing reporting on AI)