- Definitions
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Types/classifications
- AI Atlas (CNET, n.d.)
- AI vs. machine learning (IBM, 04/10/2023)
- Book: “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” (Kate Crawford, published 04/06/2021)
- Explained: Generative AI (MIT News, 11/09/2023)
- Generative AI product tracker (Ithaka S+R, 03/07/2024)
- Kate Crawford on “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 05/05/2021)
- Machine learning vs. deep learning (IBM, 03/31/2022)
- The 7 types of AI – and why we talk (mostly) about 3 of them (IBM, 11/10/2023)
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K-12
- Review of guidance from seven states on AI in education (Digital Promise, 02/26/2024)
- Literacy in the time of artificial intelligence (OSF preprints, 04/04/2024)
- How the BookmarkED/OnShelf app, created to help schools ban books, fuels them (BookRiot, 03/25/2024)
- Sample guidance on staff use of generative AI for [Michigan] K-12 school districts (Michigan Virtual, 03/29/2024)
- Your students are already using AI you’ve never heard of (Substack, 02/23/2024)
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Higher education
- Evaluating AI literacy in academic libraries: A survey study with a focus on U.S. employees (UNM digital repository, 01/01/2024)
- Flashing the hazard lights: Interrogating discourses of disruptive algorithmic technologies in LIS education (ALISE conference proceedings, 09/29/2023)
- Universities build their own ChatGPT-like tools (Inside Higher Ed, 03/21/2024)
- General public information
- Optimistic/potential predictions of use
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Actual positive usage
- A museum is using AI to let visitors chat with World War II survivors (The Washington Post, 04/01/2024)
- How a chatbot boosted graduation rates at Georgia State (Axios, 09/21/2019)
- How AI and other technologies are making the world more accessible to the blind (WAMU/NPR, 01/02/2024)
- Meet Virtual Virtual Dave (not a typo) (David Lankes, 12/05/2023)
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Predicted adverse usage
- 2023-2024 Workshop series on AI and climate change (Penn Program on Regulation, 09/21/2023)
- AI will increase the number and impact of cyberattacks, intel officers say (Ars Technica, 01/25/2024)
- Events that never happened could influence the 2024 presidential election – a cybersecurity researcher explains situation deepfakes (The Conversation, 07/17/2023)
- How AI is quietly changing everyday life (Politico, 02/04/2024)
- Misinformation reloaded? Fears about the impact of generative AI on misinformation are overblown (Harvard Misinformation Review, 10/18/2023)
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Actual adverse usage
- AI frenzy complicates efforts to keep power-hungry data sites green (The New York Times, 02/29/2024)
- Corrosive AI: How the misuse of generative AI can rapidly damage the trust we place in our political leaders and institutions (Riley Lankes, 08/17/2023)
- Do deepfake videos undermine our epistemic trust? A thematic analysis of tweets that discuss deepfakes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine (PLOS One, 10/25/2023)
- Fake and explicit images of Taylor Swift started on 4chan, study says (The New York Times, 02/05/2024)
- Generative AI: UNESCO study reveals alarming evidence of regressive gender stereotypes (UNESCO press release, 03/07/2024)
- How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda? (PNAS Nexus, 02/24/2024)
- How strangers got my email address from ChatGPT’s model (The New York Times, 12/22/2023)
- Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (Ars Technica, 04/19/2024)
- One tech tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images (AP News, 03/21/2024)
- Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (Ars Technica, 04/17/2024)
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Resources for teaching public librarians
- Ontario Council of University Libraries machine learning/AI report and strategy (OCUL-TFMLAI interim report, 03/2024)
- AI and machine learning (American Libraries, 03/01/2019)
- Artificial intelligence blog series: Metadata generation for digital content (Library Technology Guides press release, 03/26/2024)
- Beyond the hype cycle: Experiments with ChatGPT’s advanced data analysis at the Palo Alto City Library
- Developing a library strategic response to artificial intelligence (IFLA working document, 11/20/2023)
- Evolving AI strategies in libraries: Insight from two polls of ARL member representatives over nine months (Association of Research Libraries, 03/2024)
- Inspiring Joy in the Library Ecosystem (David Lankes, 12/04/2023)
- Looking towards a brighter future (University of Leeds Library News, 09/19/2023)
- Practical applications of AI in libraries (Wyoming State Library, 02/09/2024)
- The World of AI (American Libraries, 03/01/2024)
- Resources for public librarians to teach the public
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Expert commentary, analysis
- AI and the corrosive effect of careless definition (Stanford Law School blog, 11/05/2021)
- Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (MIT Technology Review, 03/13/2024)
- The work of creation in the age of AI (Andrew Perfors, 02/14/2024)
- This is why ‘polycrisis’ is a useful way of looking at the world right now (World Economic Forum, 03/07/2023)
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Predictions
- Will AI replace programmers? The big question answered (LinkedIn blog, 02/07/2024)
- AI is going to cause the next digital divide (Government Technology, 02/16/2024)
- How AI will impact the next generation workforce (Forbes, 05/31/2023)
- What to expect in AI in 2024 (Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 12/08/2023)
- What’s new in AI from the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle (Gartner, Inc. blog, 08/17/2023)
- Coverage of practical applications
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Expert commentary, analysis specific to ethics
- AI can make art that feels human. Whose fault is that? (The New York Times, 12/28/2023)
- How not to be stupid about AI, with Yann LeCun (Wired, 12/22/2023)
- There’s more to AI bias than biased data, NIST report highlights (NIST, 03/16/2022)
- University librarians see urgent need for AI ethics (Inside HigherEd, 01/17/2024)
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Advances categorized by date
- LLMs have revolutionized AI. Do we still need knowledge models and taxonomies, and why? (LinkedIn blog, 02/13/2024)
- AI isn’t your boss. It isn’t a worker. It’s a tool. (Mashable, 02/28/2024)
- AI year in review (Future Tools blog, 12/2023)
- How some North Texas startups are embracing the surge in AI technology (Denton Record-Chronicle, 07/03/2023)
- OLMo: Accelerating the science of language models (OLMo release, 02/28/2024)
- Why this school district used AI to help determine which books to ban (Smithsonian Magazine, 08/21/2023)