GenAI Recommended Resources

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Ethics, readings, help, and tools for AI in an academic and research setting. Includes a comparative table (AI matrix) of various AI tools/platforms.
Direct navigation to the Word document and their various costs, purpose, and risks to consider for academic writing and research. Matrix will be updated before each semester, or more. Information from the AI Matrix Table is available below. Last updated on May 24, 2024.

If educators steer the integration of AI with intention and purpose, it can reach its potential as an immense and versatile student success tool," writes faculty member Ripsimé K. Bledsoe. She offers six areas on which to focus efforts.
: Faculty seem to "agree that administrators need to provide more and better support for faculty members, who remain largely on their own as they try to adapt to this rapidly changing landscape."
: Jose Bowen, one of the authors of the book of the same name, is interviewed on the Future Trends Forum.
This from the Chronicle highlights a range of approaches faculty are taking to GenAI. There are some good ideas and valuable links.
More links and excitement about GenAI not ignoring higher education, in at Inside Higher Ed.

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. As you read, consider the following questions:
- Which (if any) of the ethical issues regarding GenAI that are mentioned in the article do you find particularly important and/or vexing? Why?
- This article discusses the challenges and debates surrounding the integration of large language models (LLMs) in education. It emphasizes the need for a responsible AI education framework, addressing risks such as AI-generated errors, biases, privacy concerns, and academic dishonesty. The proposed framework focuses on social justice, inquiry-based learning, reflection, and contextualizing AI in real-world issues, aiming to prepare students for an AI-dominated future.
- This article explores the challenges surrounding the integration of large language models (LLMs) in scholarly work. It critically examines existing policies, such as Nature’s prohibition on acknowledging AI writers as authors, and proposes two fundamental considerations: continuity (the extent to which AI contributions persist in the final product) and creditworthiness (whether AI-generated content typically receives academic or professional credit). The report aims to guide academics in determining when and how to credit AI writers’ contributions.
The New York Times' Ethicist weighs in:

GenAI in the news. Curated and updated regulary.

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An oldie, but a goodie... Faculty fellow Paul Shovlin recommends
Apple unveiled "" to the public on June 10. It is also powered in large part by GPT4. Until now most people having been seeking out GenAI, but when it comes preloaded on your phone ....

Some books on GenAI and related topics. These are available in OU Libraries.

Bowen, Jose Antonio and C. Edward Watson. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. John's Hopkins, UP, 2024.
Dickinson, Lynn M. How to Use ChatGPT (and other LLMs) as a Teaching Assistant: A Guidebook for Higher Education Faculty. 2023.
Mollick, Ethan. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. Penguin, 2024.

Some of the most interesting debates on generative AI occur in our favorite podcasts -- tangentially related to teaching and learning.

"This week, we host a cultural exchange. Kevin and Casey show off their Canadian paraphernalia to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and he shows off what he’s doing to position Canada as a leader in A.I. Then, the OpenAI whistle-blower Daniel Kokotajlo speaks in one of his first public interviews about why he risked almost $2 million in equity to warn of what he calls the reckless culture inside that company."
: "If there’s one AI company that’s made a splash in mainstream vernacular, it’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Former board member and AI policy expert Helen Toner joins Bilawal to discuss the existing knowledge gaps and conflicting interests between those who are in charge of making the latest technology – and those who create our policies at the government level."
: "Trevor puts on a suit (no, he’s not returning to The Daily Show) and heads to Microsoft. This week Brad Smith, Vice Chairman and President of Microsoft talks AI, explains why he doesn’t believe it will be the end of humankind, and what we all have to do to keep it that way."