As we gear up for the Fall semester, the Library team is excited to connect with Mount Sinai educators at the July 24th AI in (Bio)Medical Education: Innovation in Teaching and Learning symposium. We look forward to learning new strategies for incorporating AI into the curriculum from our invited scholars and innovators:
Dr. Stephen Harmon, Associate Dean of Research at Georgia Tech Professional Education, and Dr. José Antonio Bowen, Principal and Lead Innovator at Bowen Innovation Group, LLC.

We invite you to read Dr. Bowen's e-book available through Levy Library: Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. A Mount Sinai email address and password are required to access this e-book.
After the symposium, we will update this post with any additional resources shared along with updates from the event co-sponsors:
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Peter and Leni May Department of Medical Education
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Scholarly and Research Technologies
Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for July 2025:
New Resource: American Association of University Professors report: Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions. Available at: https://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/aaup-policies-reports/topical-reports/artificial-intelligence-and-academic
Excerpt: "Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions—composed of higher education faculty members, staff, and scholars interested in technology and its impact on academic labor—was formed under the assumption that faculty members are best positioned to understand and improve teaching and learning conditions, including the development and implementation of institutional policies around educational technology.
To learn more about the experiences and priorities of AAUP members, the committee conducted a survey with a sample of five hundred members from nearly two hundred campuses across the country, collected during a two-week time period. Respondents emphasized the importance of improving education on AI, promoting shared governance through policies and oversight, and focusing on equity, transparency, and worker protections. Based on those responses, the committee identified the five key concerns listed below and described more fully in the findings section of this report."
Robison J. A multiday in-class essay for the ChatGPT era. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/07/01/multiday-class-essay-chatgpt-era-opinion
Excerpt: “It is a multiday in-class writing assignment, where students have access through Lockdown Browser to (and only to): PDFs of the readings, a personal quotation bank they previously uploaded, an outlining document and the essay instructions (which students were given at least a week before so they had time to begin thinking through their topic).”
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Jones N. AI ‘scientists’ joined these research teams: here’s what happened. Nature News [Internet]. 2025 Jul 2. Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02028-5
Excerpt: “Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Nature asked researchers to test them out.”
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Palmer K. AI brings pain and promise to new grad job market. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 7. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/07/07/ai-brings-pain-and-promise-new-grad-job
Excerpt: “Colleges are eyeing new tools to help alumni navigate a labor market saturated by AI-generated applications.”
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Kaube B & Smith S. Guest post: When the front door moves: How AI threatens scholarly communities and what publishers can do. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Jul 7. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/07/guest-post-when-the-front-door-moves-how-ai-threatens-scholarly-communities-and-what-publishers-can-do
Excerpt: “Imagine a researcher typing a complex scientific query into one of today’s AI-discovery and summarization tools. In seconds, they receive a concise, seemingly authoritative summary – no clicking through to journal websites, no navigating subscription paywalls, and no downloading branded PDFs. To the researcher, this feels like pure convenience, perhaps even magic, but for publishers, it looks like disintermediation.”
Bruff D. On the sensibility of cognitive outsourcing. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 7. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/07/07/sensibility-cognitive-outsourcing-opinion
Excerpt: “It’s entirely reasonable for me to offload a task I don’t care much about to the machines when the machines are right there waiting to do the work for me. That was my response to a new high-profile study from a MIT Media Lab team led by Nataliya Kosmyna.”
Riyeff J. AI, irreality and the liberal educational project. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 8. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/07/08/ai-irreality-and-liberal-educational-project-opinion
Excerpt: The author “asks how higher education can achieve its aim of scrutinizing reality when students don’t even seem to recognize the irreality of AI outputs.”
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Hernandez AE. AI and the future of higher education. Psychology Today [Internet]. 2025 Jul 8. Available from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-emergence-of-skill/202507/ai-and-the-future-of-higher-education
Excerpt: “Today, people have begun to ask themselves whether AI will replace higher education...And once again, I turn to the point that Jeff Morgan made more than 10 years ago. If higher education were just about learning on your own, then books would have done the job long ago.”
Legatt A. An AI ethics roadmap beyond academic integrity for higher education. Forbes [Internet]. 2025 Jul 8. Available from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivalegatt/2025/07/08/an-ai-ethics-roadmap-beyond-academic-integrity-for-higher-education
Excerpt: “...Institutions recognize integrity as a top concern, but students are racing ahead with AI and faculty lack commensurate fluency. As a result, AI ethics debates are unfolding in classrooms with underprepared educators.”
Schroeder R. Keep in mind that AI Is multimodal now. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 9. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/07/09/keep-mind-ai-multimodal-now
Excerpt: “In order to more fully utilize the remarkable range of capabilities of AI today, we need to become comfortable with the many input and output modes that are available. From audio, voice, image and stunning video to massive formally formatted documents, spreadsheets, computer code, databases and more, the potential to input and output material is beyond what most of us take for granted.”
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McMurtrie B. Teaching: assignments that mitigate AI abuse. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jul 10. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-07-10
Excerpt: “This week, I: Discuss teaching strategies readers submitted that help to diminish AI misuse; Share readers’ book recommendations.”
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Warner J. Are students making good choices on AI? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 11. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/07/11/avoiding-work-has-always-been-part-college-new
Excerpt: “AI has changed what it means when students dodge an assignment.”
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O’Connell D. How are students really using AI? Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jul 14. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/how-are-students-really-using-ai
Excerpt: “There are seemingly endless conversations about artificial intelligence’s impact on college students...For all the discussion, however, it is hard to find much data: plenty of anecdotes but little systematic discussion of what we know.”
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Pahwa N. They have their doubts. Slate [Internet]. 2025 Jul 15. Available from: https://slate.com/life/2025/07/ai-college-cheating-gemini-chatgpt-students-policy.html
Excerpt: “What it’s like to be in school, trying not to use A.I.”
Ghildiyal A. Guest post: Gatekeepers of meaning — peer review, AI, and the fight for human attention. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Jul 17. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/17/guest-post-gatekeepers-of-meaning-peer-review-ai-and-the-fight-for-human-attention
Excerpt: “Let me begin with a rant. Why is so much of the marketing around AI tools focused on making human beings obsolete? Why are new advances so often compared to what a human expert can do — as if the sole purpose of AI is to replace us? Is AI for us, or are we for AI?”
McMurtrie B. Teaching: more tips for preventing AI misuse in the classroom. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jul 17. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-07-17
Excerpt: “This week, I: Share more reader examples of mitigating AI abuse; point you to essays and a podcast on teaching that you may have missed.”
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Alonso J. Michigan Law adds AI essay prompt. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 18. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/graduate/2025/07/18/new-michigan-law-essay-prompt-asks-applicants-use-ai
Excerpt: “For those applying this fall, the law school added a supplemental essay prompt that asks students about their AI usage and how they see that changing in law school—and requires them to use AI to develop their response. (Applicants may write up to two supplemental essays, selected from 10 prompt options in total.)”
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Palmer K. AI-enabled cheating points to ‘untenable’ peer review system. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 21. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/07/21/ai-enabled-cheating-points-untenable-peer
Excerpt: “It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.”
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Thakur H. Guest post — The accessibility illusion: when AI simplification fails the users with cognitive disabilities. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Jul 22. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/22/guest-post-the-accessibility-illusion-when-ai-simplification-fails-the-users-with-cognitive-disabilities
Excerpt: “Simplifying language for people with cognitive disabilities isn’t just a stylistic or compliance exercise; it’s a design decision with ethical and cognitive implications. This is especially true when using generative AI to adapt complex material for users. In particular, it can be challenging to process and interpret peer reviewer feedback without support, given its dense, technical, and context-specific nature.”
Palmer K. Report: Faculty often missing from university decisions on AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2025/07/22/faculty-often-missing-university-decisions-ai
Excerpt: “A new survey from the AAUP shows that a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security.”
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Quinn R. NIH to limit AI use, cap P.I. grant applications at 6 per year. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/07/22/nih-limit-ai-use-cap-grant-applications-6-year
Excerpt: “The National Institutes of Health is telling researchers to limit the number of applications they submit and restrict how much they use artificial intelligence in writing their proposals.”
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Watkins M. How to grapple with the AI already on your campus. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jul 23. Available from: https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-grapple-with-the-ai-already-on-your-campus
Excerpt: “Three steps any faculty member can take to understand which AI features are now embedded in applications you use every day.”
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Huddleston S. Instructors will now see AI throughout a widely used course software. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jul 23. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/instructors-will-now-see-ai-throughout-a-widely-used-course-software
Excerpt: “Artificial-intelligence tools — including generative AI — will now be integrated into Canvas, a learning-management platform used by a large share of the nation’s colleges, its parent company announced on Wednesday.”
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Niebuhr R. AI and higher ed: an impending collapse. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 24. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/07/24/ai-and-higher-ed-impending-collapse-opinion
Excerpt: “The most severe issue that threatens to upend the system is not the challenge of detecting AI in students’ work, but the fact that universities are now encouraging a wholesale embrace of AI.”
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Kaurov A & Oreskes N. AI will soon be able to audit all published research – what will that mean for public trust in science? The Conversation [Internet]. 2025 Jul 24. Available from: https://theconversation.com/ai-will-soon-be-able-to-audit-all-published-research-what-will-that-mean-for-public-trust-in-science-261363
Excerpt: “Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinise research before it is published…Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) will be able to supercharge these efforts.”
McMurtrie B. Teaching: why students are using AI. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jul 24. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-07-24
Excerpt: “This week, I: Describe reporting I did on student AI use and ask how AI is changing classroom dynamics; point you to stories and opinion pieces on teaching you may have missed.”
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Palmer K. Johns Hopkins Press plans to license books to train AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 24. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/books-publishing/2025/07/25/johns-hopkins-press-plans-license-books-train-ai
Excerpt: “The publisher did not disclose which AI company or companies it’s partnering with, but expects any resulting revenue to be ‘meaningful’ in advancing its mission.”
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Warner J. Is AI an academic freedom issue? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 25. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/07/25/faculty-better-get-active-ai-and-academic-freedom
Excerpt: “Education technology as a whole is an academic freedom issue, unfortunately, the encroachment of technological systems which shape (and in some cases even determine) pedagogy, research and governance have been left in the hands of others, with faculty required to capitulate to a system designed and controlled by others.”
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Gunaratne D. Why grad students can't afford to ignore AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jul 28. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/07/28/why-grad-students-cant-afford-ignore-ai-opinion
Excerpt: “As graduate students, you’re training to become the critical thinkers, researchers and leaders our world desperately needs. If you step back from advances in AI, you’re not just missing professional opportunities; you’re abdicating your responsibility to help shape how these powerful tools impact society.”
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