Research Guides: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Higher Education: Resources to Share with Students

Teaching Activities

Helping students understand the biases in generative AI
University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence - Includes excellent suggestions for class activities to explore bias in GenAI
AI Pedagogy Project from meta(LAB) at Harvard
Evolving collection of curated assignments that integrate AI tools, from educators around the world.

Generative AI Explained by UniSA Online (05:38)

This excellent, 5-minute video from the University of South Australia clearly and concisely explains how generative AI works, how it can help us, what its limitations are, and how we can use it responsibly.

Link to video on YouTube

Readings & Checklists

The Ethical Learner: GenAI Checklist
Free "printable" from Course Hero; requires email to download
Ethical AI Teaching and Learning
Ethics and equity questions to help students work through when discussing AI
Generative AI has an Intellectual Property Problem
by Gil Appel, Juliana Neelbauer, and David A. Schweidel, Harvard Business Review, April 07, 2023
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence
By Adrienne Williams, Milagros Miceli and Timnit Gebru, Noema Magazine, October 13, 2022

Bias in AI is a Problem (01:12)

This video from Dr. Raj Ramesh explains how biases in training data can perpetuate bias in AI-assisted decision-making, using employee hiring as an example.

Link to video on YouTube

Safe to Use Generative AI?

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Safe to Use Generative AI figure by University of South Florida Libraries. CC-BY.

Text version of flowchart above:

Does it matter if the output is true?
- No -> Safe to use Generative AI
- Yes -> Do you have the expertise to verify that the output is accurate?
  - No -> Unsafe to use Generative AI
  - Yes -> Are you willing to take full responsibility for inaccuracies?
    - No -> Unsafe to use Generative AI
    - Yes -> Possible to use Generative AI

How AI Can Help and Hurt the Environment (06:07)

This video from the Wall Street Journal shares clear examples of how some industries are already using AI to decrease their environmental impact, while also explaining the enormous carbon footprint and water use created by AI as an environmental risk.

How AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse (08:10)

This video from The London Interdisciplinary School explains perpetuation of bias in visual content generated by GenAI.

GenAI and the Future of Art

Use of AI Generates Questions about the Future of Art (Newshour, 07:15)

Podcast: AI for the Rest of Us

This 11-episode podcast from the University of Texas "helps explain artificial intelligence—what it means, who it affects and what you need to know right now." Most episodes run at about 25 minutes or less.