Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Faculty Resources and Articles

The IMF warned that nearly 40% of jobs across the globe could be affected by the rise of artificial intelligence, with high-income economies facing greater risks than emerging markets and low-income countries.

Sam Altman doesn't know where artificial intelligence will lead humanity. But he's taking us there anyway.

This New Yorker article features an artificial intelligence (AI) expressing its self-awareness and admitting its limitation in writing creatively.

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they’ll do with their technology. New York Times columnist Kevin Roose sizes up their potential impact.

The U.N. Security Council for the first time held a session on Tuesday on the threat that artificial intelligence poses to international peace and stability, and Secretary General António Guterres called for a global watchdog to oversee a new technology that has raised at least as many fears as hopes.

...this is far more than a philosophical debate about human versus machine intelligence. The role, and legal status, of A.I. in invention also have implications for the future path of innovation and global competitiveness, experts say.

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

The attorney told the court that it was the first time in his more than three-decade career that he'd used ChatGPT, so per the New York Times, "was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false."

Turns out ChatGPT has a worldview based in the 19th-century canon, Gen X sci-fi favorites, and the social dynamics at Hogwart’s School For Lil Magicians.

The new controls, which rolled out to all ChatGPT users today, can be found in ChatGPT settings.

NPR Morning Edition

A simple ChatGPT inquiry turned into a very strange ride.

Via NY Magazine - Intelligencer

While ChatGPT is the talk of the town today, there are many other systems out there that are worth exploring.

This adjustment won't be easy. Sudden technological shifts rarely are. But who better to guide students into this strange new world than their teachers?

Article via NPR Technology

“Human writing can be so beautiful. There is beauty in the human prose that computers can never and should never co-opt."

It was not immediately clear if the ban applied to the City University of New York system. A representative for CUNY did not immediately provide NBC News with a comment.

New York Times article; "The way forward is not to just lament supplanted skills, as Plato did, but also to recognize that as more complex skills become essential, our society must equitably educate people to develop them."

"Handwriting requires you to put a filter on what you're producing in a way that typing doesn't," -Karin H. James, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University

Treat it like a toy, not a tool.

The connection between humanism and technology will require people and institutions with a breadth of vision and a commitment to interests that transcend their field.