AI Literacy: Ethics and Impact

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• Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Federal Register

• Generative AI could leave users holding the bag for copyright violations

• Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law

• Hollywood Writers Reached an AI Deal That Will Rewrite History

• Inside the Race to Protect Artists from Artificial Intelligence

• New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems

• The New York Times forbids using its content to train AI models

• Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet

• Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

• Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use

• Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books. Could they win?

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• 'Thirsty' AI: Training ChatGPT required enough water to fill a nuclear reactor's cooling tower

• AI's Climate Impact Goes beyond Its Emissions

• AI and environmental challenges

• AI Environmental Equity: “It’s not easy being green”

• Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water

• Building a Greener Future: The Importance of Sustainable AI

• The generative AI race has a dirty secret

• Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

• The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence

• Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models

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• AI-created election disinformation is deceiving the world

• AI and the spread of fake news sites: Experts explain how to counteract them

• AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans

• AI that alters voice and imagery in political ads will require disclosure on Google and YouTube

• Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this?

• Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing

• Artificial Intelligence, deepfakes, and Disinformation: A primer

• Artificial intelligence and increasing misinformation

• A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation

  Thompson, P. (2023, September 3). A developer built a “propaganda machine” using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/developer-creates-ai-disinformation-system-using-openai-2023-9

• Exclusive: GPT-4 readily spouts misinformation, study finds

• Fact-Checkers are scrambling to fight disinformation with AI

• How generative AI is boosting the spread of disinformation and propaganda

• Looking ahead: Generative AI - Countering Disinformation Effectively

• The Next Great Misinformation Superspreader: How ChatGPT Could Spread Toxic Misinformation At Unprecedented Scale

• VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already

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• AI boom is dream and nightmare for workers in developing countries

• The exploited labor behind artificial intelligence

• Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human

• Long hours and low wages: the human labour powering AI’s development

• OpenAI used Kenyan workers on less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic

• We are all AI’s free data workers

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• ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Data Privacy: A Primer

• How to delete your data from ChatGPT

• How to use generative AI tools while still protecting your privacy

• Privacy in an AI era: How do we protect our personal information?

• The privacy paradox with AI

• Snap’s AI chatbot draws scrutiny in UK over kids’ privacy concerns

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• ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned

• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Data Privacy: A Primer

• How to delete your data from ChatGPT

• How to use generative AI tools while still protecting your privacy

• Privacy in an AI era: How do we protect our personal information?

• The privacy paradox with AI

• Snap’s AI chatbot draws scrutiny in UK over kids’ privacy concerns

Understand and evaluate the use of generative AI tools. For both students and instructors, thoughtful use can enhance teaching and learning experiences. Before adding Generative AI (GenAI) assignments into a class, make sure you understand the ethical considerations, and incorporate these into discussions with your students. Instructors should provide students with a solid understanding of AI concepts. This could involve explaining how AI algorithms work, their limitations, and their impact on society.  By demystifying AI and discussing its underlying principles, students can make informed decisions about its use.

Students may have valid ethical and privacy concerns about the use of AI and should be allowed to opt-out. If a student is reticent about using AI in class, make sure you develop an alternative assignment for those instances. 

Example Assignments

• Assign students to an AI app and having them create a document that analyzes the company that created it, the LLM it uses, terms of service, privacy implications, and potential biases. 
• As there are no federal or Georgia laws that govern the use of AI or data privacy, or defines their illegal use, a potential assignment could be to have your students draft sample legislation to mitigate an ethical issue. For example, deep fakes are being used to generate fake pornography of minors.  Should laws be passed to prevent this from happening?  What would a law like that look like?  How would it be implemented?  They could take a look at the White House's Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights as an example government document.
•  For more assignment ideas, explore the AI Pedagogy Project and 101 Creative Ideas to use in AI Education, including #4 "AI ethics: Fostering digital literacies" 

Further Reading: Some Ethical Considerations for Teaching and Generative AI in Higher Education