Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education

This portion of the LibGuide will be updated frequently with recent news and developments related to AI. While the majority of added items will relate to higher education, general noteworthy news items may also be added from time to time. Newest items will be located at the top of the list. You are encouraged to send recent news items to Ashley Tschakert Foertmeyer. 

• Emerging Technology Observatory AI Governance and Regulatory Archive (updated regularly)

• Generative AI Product Tracker (updated regularly)

• Generative AI Resources (updated regularly)

• The AI Risk Repository (updated regularly)

• US Copyright Office Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (last updated January 29, 2025)

• Leading Through Disruption (January 2025)

• OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search Features to All Users (December 16, 2024)

• 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to (December 9, 2024)

• Avoiding Discriminatory Use of AI (November 2024)

• AI will add to the e-waste problem (October 28, 2024)

• Is It AI? Peer Reviewers Struggle to Distinguish LLMs from Human Writing (October 24, 2024)

• AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating - With Big Consequences (October 18, 2024)

• Penguin Random House books now explicitly say "no" to AI training (October 18, 2024) 

• Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts (October 17, 2024)

• AI, cloud funding in US, Europe, and Israel to hit $79 billion in 2024 (October 16, 2024)

• Google to power AI with ‘golf ball’ nuclear reactors in world first (October 15, 2024)

• The Problem with "Perfect" Answers (October 15, 2024)

• With AI warning, Nobel winner joins ranks of laureates who’ve cautioned about the risks of their own work (October 15, 2024)

• A Flood of AI Slop (October 11, 2024)

• The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes (October 9, 2024)

• Can a Start-Up Help Authors Get Paid by AI Companies (October 9, 2024)

• Adobe Innovates to Address AI Content Attribution Concerns (October 9, 2024)

• The Race to Block OpenAI's Scraping Bots is Slowing Down (October 7, 2024)

• Who Owns AI's Output? (October 4, 2024)

• A Post-AI Learning Taxonomy (October 3, 2024)

• LinkedIn is Training AI on You (September 23, 2024)

• The United Nations Wants to Treat AI with the Same Urgency as Climate Change (September 19, 2024)

• ChatGPT Seems Too Good to Be True (September 12, 2024)

• Wake Up, Academia: The AI Revolution Waits for No One (September 6, 2024)

• AI and the Case for Project -Based Teaching (August 27, 2024)

• The AI Hiring Spree (August 26, 2024)

• Peer Review Process and AI Usage (August 21, 2024)

• Author Rights in the Age of Generative AI (August 20, 2024)

• ChatGPT as Research Scientist (August 20, 2024)

• Has your paper been used to train an AI model? (August 14, 2024)

• Is AI Overrated? (August 6, 2024)
• Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI? (August 1, 2024)

• How Higher Ed Can Adapt to the Challenges of AI (July 1, 2024)

• Digital Divide: Student AI Usage Surges, Leaving Faculty Behind (June 25, 2024)

• The Fumes of AI (April 1, 2024)