By Carrie Levinson, MSLIS
Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for May 2024:
Pfeiffer D. The World Economic Forum issues new report on AI in education: What impact will AI have on education? 2024 May 1. In: Choice. LibTech Insights [Internet]. Middletown, CT: Choice. Available from: https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/the-world-economic-forum-issues-new-report-on-ai-in-education
Excerpt: “This 28-page report on the role of AI in education has a speculative tone but will likely shape international and national conversations and policymaking. Its overall message is that AI can have a powerful and positive impact on students and teachers.”
Coffey L. Yale freshman creates AI chatbot with answers on AI ethics. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 2. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/05/02/yale-freshman-creates-ai-chatbot-answers-ai
Excerpt: “Amid intellectual property and ethics concerns about AI large language models, a student created one based on his professor’s ethics work.”
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Bowen JA & Watson CE. AI detection is a business. But should it be faculty business? The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 May 2. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/ai-detection-is-a-business-but-should-it-be-faculty-business
Excerpt: “As easy as it is for students to cheat with AI, it’s just as easy for faculty members to build a case with AI accusing a student of cheating. Understanding how students cheat with these new tools and how AI detectors work is now essential for professors, students, and institutions.”
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Cunningham A & Nishimura J. Using AI to help students teach in order to learn. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 3. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2024/05/03/teaching-ai-how-learn-students-learn-more-themselves
Excerpt: “The vast potential of generative AI (artificial intelligence), and particularly ChatGPT, has simultaneously inspired and alarmed us and many of our colleagues. ChatGPT is so eager to offer answers, it is easy to imagine it as an effective tutor or, terrifyingly, as a replacement teacher—albeit one prone to hallucinations. But we hold another, converse, view: we think one of the most effective ways to utilize ChatGPT in the near future isn’t to teach students, but to instead let students teach it.”
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Coffey L. Researchers investigating generative AI and scholarly publishing. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/digital-publishing/2024/05/06/researchers-investigating-generative-ai-and
Excerpt: “The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has confronted the scholarly publishing world with the potential risks and benefits of using the new technology in the production of academic research and writing.”
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Coffey L. College-bound students concerned about AI skills. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/05/06/college-bound-students-concerned-about-ai-skills
Excerpt: “More than half of the students surveyed worried about AI’s impact on them achieving their college and career goals and many had competitive concerns about how other students were using AI...”
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West S. AI should be used in class, not feared. That’s the message of these Seattle area teachers. KUOW [Internet]. 2024 May 6. Available from: https://www.kuow.org/stories/ai-should-be-used-in-class-not-feared-that-s-the-message-of-these-seattle-area-teachers
Excerpt: “Ahead of the talks, students asked AI questions like, 'What did the Soviet Union want out of this conflict?' And that helped them brainstorm historically accurate talking points for the class discussion...This is one small example of how teachers across Washington are starting to incorporate AI in the classroom and in their work, now that top education officials are pushing schools to embrace this new, ever-evolving technology.”
Schroeder R. The AI-augmented professor of 2024. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 8. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/05/08/ai-augmented-professor-2024
Excerpt: “It is early August 2024. I am about to begin the fall term of teaching, research, administrative tasks and advising with the help of generative artificial intelligence tools and assistants.”
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Warner J. Re: GenAI, Do not listen to nonexperts in education. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 9. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/05/09/sam-altman-dont-know-school
Excerpt: “It is truly bizarre how institutions that are absolutely loaded with subject matter experts would instead turn to a college dropout tech CEO with a messianic vision for his company’s product for advice.”
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Hosseini M, Resnik DB. Guidance needed for using artificial intelligence to screen journal submissions for misconduct. Research Ethics. 2024 May 11:17470161241254052. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241254052
Excerpt: “Journals and publishers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen submissions for potential misconduct, including plagiarism and data or image manipulation. While using AI can enhance the integrity of published manuscripts, it can also increase the risk of false/unsubstantiated allegations. Ambiguities related to journals’ and publishers’ responsibilities concerning fairness and transparency also raise ethical concerns.”
Kannan P. How much research is being written by large language models? Stanford News [Internet]. 2024 May 13. Available from: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-much-research-being-written-large-language-models
Excerpt: "In March of this year, a tweet about an academic paper went viral for all the wrong reasons."
Coffey L. Experts predict major AI impacts in new report. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 13. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/05/13/report-experts-predict-major-ai-impact-education
Excerpt: “Artificial intelligence (AI) will reshape student experiences, pedagogy and how people communicate, according to dozens of higher ed and technology experts, sharing opinions in a report released Monday.”
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Kaufman R. The interplay between copyright licensing and exclusive rights; AI edition. 2024 May 14. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/05/14/the-interplay-between-copyright-licensing-and-exclusive-rights-ai-edition
Excerpt: “Collective copyright licensing is nearly as old, generally viewed as dating from 1777. While there are many models of collective licensing, they all serve the same purpose: namely to reduce market inefficiencies where users require a large number of licenses from multiple rightsholders but where the non-standardized terms of use, individual transaction costs, and resources needed make direct licensing challenging.”
Cutler S. This university had an AI robot as commencement speaker. Yes, it was weird. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 May 14. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/this-university-had-an-ai-robot-as-commencement-speaker-yes-it-was-weird
Excerpt: “D’Youville University graduates and their families had mixed reviews of this year’s commencement speaker.”
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Coffey L. Students pitted against ChatGPT to improve writing. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 15. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching-learning/2024/05/15/college-students-pitted-against-chatgpt-boost
Excerpt: “Students in two courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, are going head-to-head with ChatGPT by answering the same prompts as the AI and aiming to get a higher grade.”
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Hosseini M & Holmes K. GPTs for scholars: Enablers of shoddy research? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 16. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/05/16/scholar-specific-gpts-may-enable-shoddy-research-opinion
Excerpt: “The relatively high percentage of researchers using chatbots for finding and summarizing the literature is both surprising and concerning, given that hallucinated/fake citations generated by ChatGPT made many headlines and have been discussed extensively in public media and the academic literature.”
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Coffey L. AI’s new conversation skills eyed for education. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 17. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/05/17/new-chatgpt-eyed-better-learning
Excerpt: “The latest ChatGPT’s more human-like verbal communication has professors pondering personalized learning, on-demand tutoring and more classroom applications.”
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Blau W, Cerf VG, Enriquez J, Francisco JS, Gasser U, Gray ML, Greaves M, Grosz BJ, Jamieson KH, Haug GH, Hennessy JL. Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024 May 21;121(22):e2407886121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407886121
Excerpt: "Generative AI’s power to interact with scientists in a natural manner, to perform unprecedented types of problem-solving, and to generate novel ideas and content poses challenges to the long-held values and integrity of scientific endeavors. These challenges make it more difficult for scientists, the larger research community, and the public to 1) understand and confirm the veracity of generated content, reviews, and analyses; 2) maintain accurate attribution of machine- versus human-authored analyses and information; 3) ensure transparency and disclosure of uses of AI in producing research results or textual analyses; 4) enable the replication of studies and analyses; and 5) identify and mitigate biases and inequities introduced by AI algorithms and training data."
Koebler J. University suspends students for AI tool it gave them $10,000 prize to make. 404 Media [Internet]. 2024 May 21. Available from: https://www.404media.co/email/51fe14c1-e6ef-4e7f-91f7-210e8ad68750
Excerpt: "The student cofounders of an AI studying tool won a $10,000 entrepreneurship prize from Emory University for their idea, were championed publicly and repeatedly by the university’s business school for creating the software, and then were promptly suspended by the school for a semester for building exactly what the school had just given them money to build."
Blumenstyk G. The Edge: Colleges bootstrap their way to AI literacy. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 May 22. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/the-edge/2024-05-22
Excerpt: "It doesn’t take a big budget or a deep bench of computer-science researchers for organizations to begin equipping themselves to understand the potential impact of powerful new artificial-intelligence tools. That was the clearest takeaway — and in many ways, the most comforting one — from the many responses to my question last month on how organizations are preparing for an AI-powered future. I appreciate the detailed responses so many of you sent my way."
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Schroeder R. The AI-augmented nonteaching academic in higher ed. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/05/22/ai-augmented-nonteaching-academic-higher-ed
Excerpt: "Generative AI will bring innovations, efficiencies, creativity and effectiveness to most who work at our colleges and universities in the coming year."
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Coffey L. Most researchers use AI-powered tools despite distrust. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 24. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/05/24/report-most-researchers-use-ai-tools-despite-distrusting-it
Excerpt: "More than three-quarters of researchers use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in their research, despite having concerns about data security, intellectual property rights and AI’s effectiveness, a new report finds."
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Leitch S. Guest post: Jagged edges of conversational interfaces over scholarly and professional content. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/05/30/guest-post-jagged-edges-of-conversational-interfaces-over-scholarly-and-professional-content
Excerpt: "While LLMs (large language models) and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) are promising, they fall short of human expert intelligence in many activities, and that gap varies widely depending on the task. These technologies have proven genuinely useful and are widely being incorporated into consumer and enterprise software, despite reliability issues. The sheer utility of these technologies will drive their widescale adoption by scholarly users well before all reliability or quality issues are brought down to negligible levels. The gaps in capability of LLMs and RAG in particular will narrow (and even invert) over time, but publishers and end users need education on those gaps to make investment decisions or to confidently utilize Generative AI (GenAI) tools effectively."
Coffey L. New ChatGPT version aiming at higher ed. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 May 31. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/05/31/new-chatgpt-zeroes-higher-ed
Excerpt: "ChatGPT Edu, emerging after initial partnerships with several universities, is prompting both cautious optimism and worries."
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