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ChatGPT and Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence): Ethics & Concerns about AI
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Concerns about AI: Selected Resources
Myriad concerns about artificial intelligence abound. It's important to understand them in order to think critically about AI, education, and libraries.
This is selected list of resources reflects varied concerns about generative AI tools.
General Concerns
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born (The Verge)
AI Platforms like ChatGPT Are Easy to Use but Also Potentially Dangerous (Scientific American)
AI policies across the globe: Implications and recommendations for libraries (IFLA Journal)
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn (New York Times)
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (The White House)
DOD Announces Establishment of Generative AI Task Force
Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models (DeepMind)
Five Growing Concerns about Generative AI for Librarians and Information Professionals (Choice)
F.T.C. Opens Investigation Into ChatGPT Maker Over Technology’s Potential Harms (New York Times)
Iowa School District Bans Books by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood After AI Review for ‘Depictions of a Sex Act’ (Rolling Stone)
Library Freedom Project Webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Libraries
MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Statement on AI Risk (Center for AI Safety)
The U.S. Regulates Cars, Radio and TV. When Will It Regulate A.I.? (New York Times)
The uselessness of AI ethics (AI and Ethics article)
What Exactly Are the Dangers Posed by AI? (New York Times)
When AI Says No, Ask Grandma (Fordham News)
With Executive Order, White House Tries to Balance A.I.’s Potential and Peril (New York Times)
Copyright and Intellectual Property
AI companies would be required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill (The Verge)
Artificial intelligence and copyright (World Intellectual Property Organization magazine)
Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books (The Guardian)
Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies (New York Times)
The New York Times prohibits using its content to train AI models (The Verge)
Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet
Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI and Meta Over Copyright Infringement (New York Times)
Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission (NPR)
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (New York Times)
Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use (Nature)
Environmental Impacts
The Carbon Footprint of ChatGPT
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (Nature)
Risks and Benefits of Large Language Models for the Environment (Environmental Science & Technology)
Turns out there’s another problem with AI – its environmental toll (The Guardian)
Economic and Labor Impacts
Can OpenAI Be Taught to Catalog? (San Diego State University poster presentation)
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (OpenAI working paper)
How will Language Modelers like ChatGPT Affect Occupations and Industries? (SSRN)
IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do (Bloomberg)
In Reversal Because of A.I., Office Jobs Are Now More at Risk (New York Times)
Librarians Against the Machines: Is ChatGPT the Incarnation Of EMERAC? (Forbes)
OpenAI wants GPT-4 to solve the content moderation dilemma
The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth (Goldman Sachs Global Economics Analyst)
Report – Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination? (Center for Democracy & Technology)
Some companies are already replacing workers with ChatGPT (Fortune)
‘Training My Replacement’: Inside a Call Center Worker’s Battle With A.I. (New York Times)
Exploitation of Labor
ChatGPT Is Powered by These Contractors Making $15 an Hour (NBC News)
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (TIME)
Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies (Wired)
Responsible Sourcing of Data Enrichment Services (Partnership on AI)
We are all AI’s free data workers (MIT Technology Review)
Privacy
Center for AI and Digital Policy FTC Complaint
ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned (The Conversation)
ChatGPT is temporarily banned in Italy amid an investigation into data collection (NPR)
How to Delete Your Data from ChatGPT (Wired)
How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features (Zoom blog)
Is ChatGPT's use of people's data even legal? (Avast blog post)
Misinformation, Disinformation, and Bias
AI fakes raise election risks as lawmakers and tech companies scramble to catch up (NPR)
AI-generated disinformation poses threat of misleading voters in 2024 election (PBS)
AI Disinformation Drives Lawmaker Fears About 2024 ‘Wild West’ (Bloomberg Government)
AI Misinformation: How It Works and Ways to Spot It (CNET)
AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans (Science Advances)
AI that alters voice and imagery in political ads will require disclosure on Google and YouTube (AP News)
A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails (New York Times)
Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing (Cureus)
Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize (New York Times)
ChatGPT breaks its own rules on political messages (Washington Post)
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation (Business Insider)
Disinformation reimagined: how AI could erode democracy in the 2024 US elections (The Guardian)
Exclusive: GPT-4 readily spouts misinformation, study finds (Axios)
Explicit Deepfake Images of Taylor Swift Elude Safeguards and Swamp Social Media (New York Times)
The FCC says AI voices in robocalls are illegal
Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns and how to reduce risk (OpenAI)
Google: How we’re approaching the 2024 U.S. elections
How generative AI is boosting the spread of disinformation and propaganda (MIT Technology Review)
How OpenAI is approaching 2024 worldwide elections (OpenAI blog post)
Libraries Fight to Stop Election Disinformation Ahead of November (GovTech)
The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. (New York Times)
Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals (The Lancet Global Health)
Science & Tech Spotlight: Combating Deepfakes (U.S. Government Accountability Office)
Seeking Reliable Election Information? Don’t Trust AI (The AI Democracy Project Report)
The U.S. Isn’t Ready for the New Age of AI-Fueled Disinformation—But China Is (TIME)
VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already (TechCrunch)
Webinar: How to fact-check in the AI Age (News Literacy Project)
Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
AI bot ChatGPT writes smart essays — should professors worry? (Nature)
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (New York Times)
Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to ‘ChatGPT-proof’ assignments (AP News)
Scores of Stanford students used ChatGPT on final exams, survey suggests (The Stanford Daily)
Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting (Retraction Watch)
We Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went. (New York Times)
Acknowledgement
Original design and content of this guide used by permission of Jane D. Stimpson, MSIS, Consutant, Massachusetts Library System, Inc.
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