Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: For Faculty

There is an increasing number of articles and commentaries addressing the impact of artificial intelligence on education, business, arts, and most aspects of day-to-day life. We will continue to add select articles to this page but recommend the below resources and tools to help you stay current on research and articles in this area.

We suggest creating a search alert in one or more databases. Search alerts save research time, and can be set up to provide e-mail notifications whenever new search results become available within that database.

Ebsco databases - Instructions for creating a search alert  

Proquest databases. - Instructions for creating a search alert

Gale databases - Instructions for creating a search alert 

U.S. Major Dailies from Gale provide full-text access to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, The Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune

Pubmed from the NIH - Instructions for creating a search alert

More resources:

Visit the NYT Special section on AI (NYT Digital account required)

https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/artificial-intelligence

Visit the MIT Technology Review section on AI

Subscribe to a newsletter on AI, such as Ethan Mollick's Substack One Useful Thing or Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's AI Snake Oil

Hirabayashi, S., Jain, R., Jurković, N. & Wu, G. (Accessed 2024, August 22). Harvard Undergraduate Survey on Generative AI. Arvix. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.00833 

Lee, B.C., Chung, J.(2024, August 12). An empirical investigation of the impact of ChatGPT on creativity. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01953-1  

Banks, D., Bosone, C., Carpenter, B., Shah, T., & Shi, C. (2024). Large Language Models: Trust and Regulation  . Harvard Data Science Review, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.1be2ab6e 

Kwon, D. (2024, July 30). AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02371-z 

Weinberger, D. & Zanini, M. (2024, July 29). AI Has a Revolutionary Ability to Parse Details. What Does That Mean for Business? Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2024/07/ai-has-a-revolutionary-ability-to-parse-details-what-does-that-mean-for-business 

Vaira, L.A., Lechien, J.R., Abbate, V. et al. Validation of the Quality Analysis of Medical Artificial Intelligence (QAMAI) tool: a new tool to assess the quality of health information provided by AI platforms. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-024-08710-0 

Care, M. Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI is disrupting the local news industry: Will it unlock growth or be an existential threat? Local New Initiative, Northwestern University.  https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/05/08/ai-local-news-report/index.html 

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Research team develops AI to perform chemical synthesis. Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-team-ai-chemical-synthesis.html 

"How AI Will Shape Society Over The Next 20 Years". Youtube, uploaded by Forbes, (8 May 2024). https://youtu.be/USIe5o3V3_s?si=DqDgX7CMkVCLC1Jm 

Allyn, B. (2024, April 30). Eight newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/30/1248141220/lawsuit-openai-microsoft-copyright-infringement-newspaper-tribune-post 

Callaway, E. ‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools: Some of the AI-designed gene editors could be more versatile than those found in nature. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01243-w 

Chason, R. With French under fire, Mali uses AI to bring local language to students. The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/13/mali-books-artificial-intelligence-ai/ 

Issaiy, M., Ghanaati, H., Kolahi, S. et al. Methodological insights into ChatGPT’s screening performance in systematic reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol 24, 78 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02203-8 

El Khoury, G. Assessing Arabic Proverb Translation Accuracy: A Comparative Study of ChatGPT and Google Translate with Pedagogical Applications. The FLTMAG. https://fltmag.com/ai-translation-accuracy/  

Milmo, D.  ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai 

Buszka, S., Cortez J., Meltzer I. Student Perspectives on Using AI. EDUCAUSE Exchange Podcast. https://er.educause.edu/podcasts/educause-exchange/student-perspectives-on-using-ai 

 

Saeidnia, H.R., Kozak, M., Lund, B.D. et al. Evaluation of ChatGPT’s responses to information needs and information seeking of dementia patients. Sci Rep 14, 10273 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61068-5  

Nicholas, G. (2024, August 13). Grounding AI Policy: Towards Researcher Access to AI Usage Data. The Center for Democracy & Technology. https://cdt.org/insights/grounding-ai-policy-towards-researcher-access-to-ai-usage-data/  

Beaty, A.  How AI helped scientists find an alphabet in sperm whale sounds. ZDNet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-ai-helped-scientists-find-an-alphabet-in-sperm-whale-sounds/ 

McKay, J.  How ChatGPT Could Help First Responders During a Disaster. Government Technology. https://www.govtech.com/em/how-chatgpt-could-help-first-responders-during-a-disaster 

Roth, E. and Kennemer, Q. (2024, March 23). Financial Times tests an AI chatbot trained on decades of its own articles. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/23/24106296/ask-ft-generative-ai-chatbot-answers-tool 

U.S. Census Bureau. (2024, March 28). Census Bureau Releases Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data With Artificial Intelligence Supplement.  Press Release Number CB24-TPS.31. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/business-trends-outlook-survey-artificial-intelligence-supplement.html 

Bassi, M.  Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius’ Eruption. The trio used artificial intelligence to decode sections of the text. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-students-decipher-first-passages-2000-year-old-scroll-burned-vesuvius-eruption-180983738/ 

Knibbs, K. How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up-a-little-on-ai/ 

Zhu, L., Mou, W., Lai, Y. et al. Language and cultural bias in AI: comparing the performance of large language models developed in different countries on Traditional Chinese Medicine highlights the need for localized models. J Transl Med 22, 319 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-024-05128-4 

Redman, T.C. and Hoerl, R.W.  AI and Statistics: Perfect Together. MITSloan Management Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/ai-and-statistics-perfect-together/ 

Burtch, G., Lee, D. & Chen, Z. The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities. Sci Rep 14, 10413 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61221-0 

Cai, S.  Circles of intelligence: How AI is redefining human creativity. Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/91107418/circles-of-intelligence-how-ai-is-redefining-human-creativity 

Fleming, D. Researchers use environmental justice questions to reveal geographic biases in ChatGPT. Virginia Tech News. https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/12/cnre-geographic-biases-ai.html 

Fang, X., Che, S., Mao, M. et al.  Bias of AI-generated content: an examination of news produced by large language models. Sci Rep 14, 5224 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55686-2 

Belfiore, M. 5 global problems AI could help solve. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/ad/23870335/global-problems-ai-could-help-solve 

Diakopoulos, N. & Cools, H. & Li, C. & Helberger, N. & Kung, E. & Rinehart, A. & Gibbs, L. Generative AI in Journalism: The Evolution of Newswork and Ethics in a Generative Information Ecosystem. 10.13140/RG.2.2.31540.05765 

Kim, J., Kim, J. H., Kim, C., & Park, J. (Accessed 2023, September 29). Decisions with ChatGPT: Reexamining choice overload in ChatGPT recommendations. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 75, 103494. https://10.1016/j.jretconser.2023.103494

Moser, E. (2023, September 28). Can ChatGPT help us form personal narratives?  Penn Today. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/positive-psychology-can-chatgpt-help-us-form-personal-narratives

Schrader, A. (2023, September 26). Another A.I.-Generated Artwork Was Denied Copyright Protection, Adding a New Knot to the Complexities of Creative Ownership. Artnet News. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-art-copyright-2367590

Pazzanese, C. (2023, September 21). Is ChatGPT more foul than fair? Scholar explains key issues in writers’ case against OpenAI. Harvard Gazette. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/key-issues-in-writers-case-against-openai-explained/

Lomas, N. (2023, September 21). Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT following GDPR complaint. Techcrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/poland-chatgpt-gdpr-complaint-probe/

Hashahar, A. (2023, Septemer 21). 5 Mistakes I Learned to Avoid When Working With ChatGPT: What I learned from using ChatGPT for business purposes day-to-day across my content websites. Entrepreneur. https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/5-mistakes-to-avoid-when-working-with-chatgpt/459158

Turner, V.S. (2023, September 20). Four Amazing Impacts of This A.I.-Powered Bird Migration Tracker: A reimagined tool called BirdCast is helping birders, scientists and even farmers. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/four-amazing-impacts-of-this-ai-powered-bird-migration-tracker-180982932/

Choi, C. (2023, September 19). ChatGPT May Be A Better Improviser Than You: Chatbots come up with more creative uses for common items than the average person but lag behind the best humans. IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-better-improvisor-than-most#toggle-gdpr

Goldman, S. (2023, September 18). Today’s AI is ‘alchemy,’ not science — what that means and why that matters. VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/business/todays-ai-is-not-science-its-alchemy-what-that-means-and-why-that-matters-the-ai-beat/

Gorichanaz, T. (Accessed 2023, September 14) Accused: How students respond to allegations of using ChatGPT on assessments, Learning: Research and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/23735082.2023.2254787

Strayer, P. (2023, September 13). ChatGPT Sparks Growing Interest in A.I. - Can It Help the Wine Industry? Wine Business. https://www.winebusiness.com/news/article/276332

Ellis, C. (2023, September 12). Transforming the public sector and harnessing the power of ChatGPT. Open Access Government. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/transforming-public-sector-harnessing-the-power-of-chatgpt/166161/

Pugh, J. (2023, September 9). The 'perfect' teaching assistant? Universities find new uses for AI. CBC News. 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-chatgpt-openai-universities-1.6958321https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-chatgpt-openai-universities-1.6958321

Conroy, G. (2023, September 8). Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02477-w

Woollacott, E. (2023, September 1). OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Training Data. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/09/01/openai-hit-with-new-lawsuit-over-chatgpt-training-data/?sh=2535e06f6d84

Jones, R. (2023, August 31). 10 million enslaved Americans' names are missing from history. AI is helping identify them. National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/10-million-names-project-enslaved-people-georgetown-university-ai

Rao A, Pang M, Kim J, Kamineni M, Lie W, Prasad A, Landman A, Dreyer K, Succi M (Accessed 2023, August 31). Assessing the Utility of ChatGPT Throughout the Entire Clinical Workflow: Development and Usability Study. J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e48659 https://www.jmir.org/2023/1/e48659

Wen, L. (2023, Augsut 29). AI could impact health on a ‘planetary scale.’ Here’s how. The Washington Post. http://rocky.iona.edu:2048/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/washingtonpost/blogs-podcasts-websites/ai-could-impact-health-on-planetary-scale-here-s/docview/2858508534/sem-2?accountid=35757

Tan, R. & Cabato, R. (2023, August 28). Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’. The Washington Post. http://rocky.iona.edu:2048/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/washingtonpost/blogs-podcasts-websites/behind-ai-boom-army-overseas-workers-digital/docview/2858098471/sem-2?accountid=35757

Motoki, F., Neto, V.P. & Rodrigues, V. (Accessed 2023, August 27). More human than human: measuring ChatGPT political bias. Public Choice (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-023-01097-2

Evans, N., Jirout, J., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2023, August 22). What ChatGPT can’t do: Educating for curiosity and creativity. Brookings Institute. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-chatgpt-cant-do-educating-for-curiosity-and-creativity/

Yong Cao, Li Zhou, Seolhwa Lee, Laura Cabello, Min Chen, and Daniel Hershcovich. (Accessed 2023, August 2). Assessing Cross-Cultural Alignment between ChatGPT and Human Societies: An Empirical Study. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP), pages 53–67, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2023.c3nlp-1.7

Bearne, S. (2023, August 1). New AI systems collide with copyright law. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66231268

Manovich, L. (2023, July 21). The AI Brain in the Cultural Archive: What new artifacts emerge when we look at the next revolution in media? MOMA Magazine. https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/927?

(2023, July 20). ChatGPT, AI in health care and the future of medicine with AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH
AMA Update. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/chatgpt-ai-health-care-and-future-medicine-ama-president-jesse

Davis, W. (2023, July 9). Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

Ronen, R. (2023, July 8). How generative AI tools like ChatGPT can revolutionize web accessibility. Venture Beat. https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-generative-ai-tools-like-chatgpt-can-revolutionize-web-accessibility/

Hu, A. (2023, July 6). The overlooked climate consequences of AI. Grist. https://grist.org/technology/the-overlooked-climate-consequences-of-ai/

Small, Z. (2023, July 5). Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/arts/design/black-artists-bias-ai.html

Terech, K. (2023, July 2). I asked ChatGPT the same question in Russian and Ukrainian – and the results worried me. techradar. 
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-asked-chatgpt-the-same-question-in-russian-and-ukrainian-and-the-results-worried-me

Asare, J. (2023, June 30). 3 Ways ChatGPT Can Be Used To Advance Workplace DEI. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2023/06/30/3-ways-chatgpt-can-be-used-to-advance-workplace-dei

Jingnan, H. (2023, June 29). AI-generated text is hard to spot. It could play a big role in the 2024 campaign. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1183684732/ai-generated-text-is-hard-to-spot-it-could-play-a-big-role-in-the-2024-campaign

Hoover, S. & Spengler, S. (2023, May 30). For Some Autistic People, ChatGPT Is a Lifeline
The chatbot can help rehearse communication skills and for some provides a resource to turn to when life is tough. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/for-some-autistic-people-chatgpt-is-a-lifeline/

Stadler, C. & Reeves, M. (2023, May 30). Three Lessons From Chatting About Strategy With ChatGPT
When generative AI’s capacity for strategy creation is put to the test, it reveals where its strengths lie — and where humans still have the edge. MIT Sloan Management Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/three-lessons-from-chatting-about-strategy-with-chatgpt/

Gregersen, H. & Bianzino, N.M. (2023, May 26.). AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2023/05/ai-can-help-you-ask-better-questions-and-solve-bigger-problems

Steve Inskeep, S. & Shanker, T. (2023, May 17). 'Age of Danger' explores potential risks because AI doesn't understand rules of war. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176600753/age-of-danger-explores-potential-risks-because-ai-doesnt-understand-rules-of-war

Hill, S. (2023, May 7). Using AI to Build Personalized Assistive Hearing Devices. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/cochlear-and-google-hearing-technology-coalition/

Ingram, D. (2023, May 6). ChatGPT is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/openai-chatgpt-ai-jobs-contractors-talk-shadow-workforce-powers-rcna81892

Margaret Osborne, M. (2023, May 4). Researchers Use A.I. to Decode Words From Brain Scans. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-use-ai-to-decode-words-from-brain-scans-180982097/

Gao, C.A., Howard, F.M., Markov, N.S. et al. (Accessed 2023, May 2).Comparing scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT to real abstracts with detectors and blinded human reviewers. npj Digit. Med. 6, 75 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00819-6

Kopp, W. & Thomsen, B. (2023, May 1). How AI can accelerate students’ holistic development and make teaching more fulfilling.  World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/05/ai-accelerate-students-holistic-development-teaching-fulfilling/

Perrifogo, B. (2023, May 1). 150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting. Time.https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

(2023, April 26). ChatGPT raises questions about how humans acquire language. The Economist. https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/04/26/chatgpt-raises-questions-about-how-humans-acquire-language

Ashby, M. (2023, April 25).The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI. Wired. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/andy-warhol-fair-use-prince-generative-ai

Zakrzewski, C. (2023, April 25).  "Federal Regulators Call AI Discrimination a ‘new Civil Rights Frontier’." The Washington Post.  http://rocky.iona.edu:2048/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/blogs-podcasts-websites/federal-regulators-call-ai-discrimination-new/docview/2805750543/se-2

Deck, A. (2023, April 19). AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims: Cost-cutting translations are introducing errors and putting refugees at risk. Rest of World. https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-translation-errors-afghan-refugees-asylum/

Ohlheiser, A. (2023, April 16). How AI tools like ChatGPT can combat ADHD paralysis. Mashable. https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-ai-and-adhd

Donovan, M. (2023, April 11). How AI is helping historians better understand our past. MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/11/1071104/ai-helping-historians-analyze-past/

Rovella D. (Accessed 2023, March 29). How AI and Robots Are Accelerating Inclusion for Disabled People. Bloomberg.com. https://search-ebscohost-com.rocky.iona.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bsh&AN=162638500&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Copyright Registration Guidance for Works Containing AI-Generated Material, 88 Fed. Reg. 16,190 (Mar. 16, 2023). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-03-16/pdf/2023-05321.pdf