Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - UNESCO
AI & LLMs General
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
Those old enough to remember short, choppy and grainy video clips before streaming Netflix in 4k have a better sense of the growth arc of technology. Having a chat with these voice AI bots in 2025 makes it easy to believe that these serve as people's friends someday.
AI as Normal Technology | Knight First Amendment Institute
This sophisticated paper places AI as a "normal technology", setting aside both utopian and dystopian predictions. Given its alignment with development and changes of previous technologies, many of its views are worth considering
UN AI for Good – Law Track Conference: AI Safety and Risk Mitigation
This is the inaugural Law Track Conference of the UN AI for Good global platform. In recognition of the transformative potential of AI in law and justice, this track brings together world-leading companies, academia, policy voices, and legal thinkers to harness the power of AI to promote sustainable, ethical, and responsible law and legal systems.
This seminal event, in collaboration with Stanford Law School, will convene AI thought leaders from industry and academia to explore a range of topics intended to drive understanding of the social good of AI, with particular focus on its applications in the area of law.
Guardrails AI
It's important for educators to be aware of what the business world is doing with regard to the reliability and safety of AI. A brief look at the services this firm offers its client speaks volumes about the valid, real-time concerns regarding the use of AI
How we learned to stop worrying and love ChatGPT: 1,800 researchers on AI tools for science - Paperpile
Opinion | For One Hilarious, Terrifying Day, Elon Musk’s Chatbot Lost Its Mind - The New York Times
Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference A Large Language Model Perspective
This report focus on the intersection of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference and Large Language Models. The aim is to give a non-technicalcomprehensive understanding of how weaknesses in the language models can be used for creating malicious content to be used in FIMI.
Revolutionizing Healthcare - Core Concepts: AI Education for Clinicians
Listen to Curtis Langlotz of Stanford talk for a few minutes about the application of AI to clinical trials. The concerns he raises about the transparency of AI tools is just as valuable for educators, historians and social studies teachers.
The Dirty Energy Powering AI | Council on Foreign Relations
Global electricity use is surging with unprecedented demand coming from data centers and AI. Although the transcript of this conversation says more about energy use, geopolitics, and climate change, it places AI in that context
Scotlands artificial intelligence strategy trustworthy ethical inclusive
This March 2021 publication is not as useful for education as it is for seeing the way one country approaches AI. Look at the chart on page 8
Prosak - Get ready for linguistic anarchy
Essay about the dehumanizing and homogenizing effect of AI which when applied to education - maybe this means we need more assignments that tap into what is "human"
Joanne Freeman: "College professor peeps: A question. How do you determine when an undergraduate essay has been written by ChatGPT?" — Bluesky
Sit in on a conversation with college professors and high school teachers discussing AI and you'll be better served than attending that district-sponsored AI session - BlueSky account needed
Does it rhyme? AI, Poetry, Scholarship and Schools
Harvard Law School Professors and Program Alumni practicing in the field discuss AI in the LAW - LL.M. Centennial | Plenary 4: The Future
Listening to Harvard Law School faculty talk with prominent attorneys about AI's use in their field is worth much more in evaluating its use in the "real world" than anything you can year at an educational PD session (about 35 minutes mark)
Rebind - AI-assisted digital publisher sells books with accompanying AI Bot that provides an interactive, personal guidance and expert commentary on the book
In this application of AI, a recognized expert is interviewed for for 30+ hours and that dialog informs the AI tool sold along with a book. LLM generated text trained on the text and the expert's input serves as the chat for the read. Read the article and then look at Rebind to learn more about it
How large language models work, a visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning
30 minute video giving graphic explanation of how large language models work. Teachers should spend 5 or 10 minutes of their time, or as much as they can stand, clicking through this video to get a sense of what is being done "under the hood" in an AI tool that allows it to work
Artificial Intelligence, Dreams and Fears of A Blue Dot
Although some of the articles appear dated (2020), the issues raised at this site are useful for exploring the horizon of AI implications
See how the future of jobs is changing in the age of AI | World Economic Forum
It is helpful to see how the "real world" is adapting to AI even if education isn't chiefly utilitarian. Comparing the level of discourse in business and education is interesting
Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property - YouTube
This hour long video has lawyers and practitioners discussing legal implications of AI in areas such a patent law.
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
Currently, society is ill-prepared to manage the risks from AI. CAIS exists to equip policymakers, business leaders, and the broader world with the understanding and tools necessary to manage AI risk.
Plato's Argument Against Writing
Plato's argument against writing is a perfect fit for contemplation of AI - words do not make understanding in an of themselves. The fact that Generative text can erupt a volcano of text at the click of a mouse doesn't make it intelligent - but it makes it sound intelligent
WHAT DANGERS DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSE TO THE WRITING/TELLING OF HISTORY?
As if you couldn't figure this out for yourself, it might be faster to get their list
The shape of the shadow of The Thing - by Ethan Mollick
What's been pinging my AI scanner - by Bryan Alexander
December 2023 seems to mark the time when specific generative tools are targeting specific tasks using specific data sets.