Artificial Intelligence

AI Ethics addresses the ethical issues of AI including what moral norms should be encoded into AI to try to make it safe (alignment), what constitutes morally good and morally bad uses of AI at the societal (governance, policy, law) level and the individual level, and the ethical consequences and harm of AI either by its design or how it is used. Association of College and Research Libraries 18 Nov 2025.

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too. Aeon, 13 Oct 2025.

A first of its kind study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows some concerning findings on how AI affects brain activity as all Ohio State University students, starting with this fall’s freshman class, will be trained to use AI in their majors.WOSU Public Media, 29 July 2025

A pioneering bill would give citizens the right to demand that social media platforms remove digital forgeries of themselves.New York Times, 10 July 2025.

In a recent CNN interview, MIT's Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna shared findings from a new study showing that relying solely on AI for tasks like writing can reduce brain activity and memory. The research highlights how overusing AI tools like ChatGPT may impact how we think—and why human effort still matters. CNN, 20 June 2025.

An article discussing College & Research Libraries' policy on generative AI. College & Research Libraries, May 2025.

This essay provides a guide to AI literacy that addresses technical, ethical, critical, and societal dimensions of AI, preparing learners to thrive in an AI-embedded world. College & Research Libraries News, March 2025.

California governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models. PBS News, 30 Sep 2024.

AI image generator tools have a tendency to reproduce stereotypes in their images; recent attempts to mitigate these embedded biases have backfired, either failing to generate images with diverse subjects or including diversity where it would be inappropriate. Brookings Institution, 17 Apr 2024.

In concert with advancements in artificial intelligence technology, the U.S. federal government’s investments in AI have rapidly accelerated in recent years. The authors analyze hundreds of federal contracts related to AI, and find a tremendous growth in contracts in the last year especially. Notably, 2022-2023 saw massive new investment from the Department of Defense (DoD) in AI-related contracts. Brookings Institution, 26 Mar 2024.

Can journalism survive artificial intelligence (AI)? The answer will depend on whether journalism can adapt its business models to the AI era. If policymakers intervene to correct market imbalances, they must enforce intellectual property rights and ensure that journalism has a fighting chance in the era of generative AI. Brookings Institution, 25 Mar 2024.

Testimony was given before the House Committee on Oversight & Accountability for the White House Overreach on AI hearing on March 21, 2024.

Google is restricting its Gemini AI chatbot from answering election-related questions in countries where voting is taking place this year, limiting users from receiving information about candidates, political parties and other elements of politics. The Guardian, 12 Mar 2024.

This article discusses AI detectors for use in identifying plagiarism in student work. Missouri Online, 23 Jan 2024.

To address concerns about the use of AI and language models in the writing of manuscripts, JAMA and the JAMA Network journals have updated relevant policies in the journals’ Instructions for Authors. Journal of the American Medical Association, 31 Jan 2023.

The Brookings Institution's repository of articles and commentary discussing artificial intelligence.

The Guardian newspaper's repository of articles and editorials discussing artificial intelligence.