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Stephen Goforth
“What constitutes legitimate use of AI and what is out of bounds? Academic leaders don’t always agree whether hypothetical scenarios described appropriate uses of AI or not: For one example—in which a student used AI to generate a detailed outline for a paper and then used the outline to write the paper—the verdict (in a recent survey) was completely split.” -Inside Higher Ed
Can generative AI replace humans in qualitative research studies? - Techxplore
The recent reduction in spelling error rates in academic papers could be due to an increased use of LLMs – OSF Preprints
AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers - Nature
Flood of AI-assisted research ‘weakening quality of science'” – Times Higher Ed
Shoddy study designs and false findings using a large public health dataset portend future risk of exploitation by AI and paper mills – PLOS Biology
Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split - Nature
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper – Wall Street Journal
Meta releases new data set, AI model aimed at speeding up scientific research – Semafor
Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns – Retraction Watch
AI-Reddit study leader gets warning as ethics committee moves to ‘stricter review process’ – Retraction Watch
Why misuse of generative AI is worse than plagiarism – Springer
Science sleuths flag hundreds of papers that use AI without disclosing it - Nature
Google engineer withdraws preprint after getting called out for using AI – Retraction Watch
Scientific Data Fabrication and AI—Pandora’s Box – JAMA Network
AI summary ‘trashed author’s work’ and took weeks to be corrected – Times Higher Ed
AI language models increasingly shape economics research writing, study finds – Phys.org
Artificial intelligence in vaccine research and development: an umbrella review – Frontiers
When I was in college, I obsessed over getting straight A’s, said Adam Grant. Now that I’m a professor, “I watch in dismay” when I see students joining the same “cult of perfectionism.” They think straight A’s will provide entrée to elite graduate schools and prestigious careers. The evidence, however, says otherwise. Research across industries shows that while there’s a modest correlation between grades and job performance the first year out of college, after a few years, the difference is “trivial.” Why? “Getting straight A’s requires conformity. Having an influential career demands originality.” While straight-A students are locked in their dorm rooms or library pursuing “meaningless perfection,” their peers are developing skills that aren’t captured by grades: “creativity, leadership, and teamwork skills and social, emotional, and political intelligence.” Real career success doesn’t come from “finding the right solution to a problem—it’s more about finding the right problem to solve.” In high school Steve Jobs pulled a 2.65 GPA, J.K. Rowling had a C average at Exeter, and Martin Luther King Jr. managed only one A in four years at Morehouse College. This tells us that “underachieving in school can prepare you to overachieve in life.”
Adam Grant writing in The New York Times (as quoted in The Week Magazine)
Teachers Worry About Students Using A.I. But They Love It for Themselves. – New York Times
Gen Z Wary of AI Effects, Wants More Guidance From School, Work – Inside Higher Ed
Students Found Out AI Will Help Read Their Names at Commencement. Protest Ensued. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
China makes AI education mandatory in schools starting Sept 1, 2025 – Asaase Radio
Why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI – The Guardian
What Students Are Saying About A.I. and the Future of Work – New York Times
State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas" – Axios
ChatGPT for students: learners find creative new uses for chatbots – Nature
Assessing AI-Driven Approaches to Student Mental Health – Dartmouth
After offering AI detection, Turnitin offers new AI Product – Business Insider
How To Help College-Bound Students Build AI Literacy – Forbes
AI Anxiety Can writing at Harvard coexist with new technologies? – Harvard Magazine
Chegg bets big on the AI that nearly broke it – Semafor
Minnesota Grad Student Expelled for Allegedly Using AI Is Suing School - Gozmodo
Half of institution doesn’t grant students access to AI tools – Inside Higher Ed
Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking – Axios
Are Students Cheating When They Use A.I. for Their Schoolwork? – New York Times
AI bots are overwhelming some journals – C&EN
AI research summaries ‘exaggerate findings’, study warns – Times Higher Ed
A Scanning Error Created a Fake Science Term—Now AI Won’t Let It Die - Gizmodo
AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried – Nature
A Shortcut or a Level Up? Harvard Faculty Debate Generative AI in Academia – The Crimson
Publishers Embrace AI as Research Integrity Tool – Inside Higher Ed
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement – Nature
AI search summaries cannibalise academic publishers’ web traffic – Times Higher Ed
An academic paper written by AI passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that – Tech Crunch
Trying to Write an Academic Paper with LLM Assistance – Scholarly Kitchen
Academic publishers warn against AI copyright plans - Research Professional News – Research Professional News
AI detectors are poor western blot classifiers: a study of accuracy and predictive values – PeerJ
Will AI jeopardize science photography? – Nature
Can AI Solve the Peer Review Crisis? - IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Publishers need to provide guidelines on use of AI in research, says Wiley – Chemistry World
ChatGPT to help peer review scientific studies in UK Government trial – Telegraph
Generative artificial intelligence usage guidelines for scholarly publishing: a cross-sectional study of medical journals – BMC Medicine
Retractions Increase 10-Fold in 20 Years - and Now AI is Involved – AAPS News
A viral video reveals how an AI-generated mistake led to nearly two dozen flawed research papers – Economic Times
Is AI the new research scientist? Not so, according to a human-led study. – University of Florida
The Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academic Writing and Publishing Papers – Research Gate
College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them - EdSurge
Publication Ethics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence – Journal of Korean Medical Science
The AI Hiring Spree Colleges face stiff competition as they race to build faculties with expertise. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Los Angeles Unified launches Ed, the nation’s first AI ‘personal assistant’ for students – Ed Source
Why We Should Normalize Open Disclosure of AI Use - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Abstracts Written by Medical Researchers vs Generated by Large Language Models – JAMA Network
AI Will Shake Up Higher Ed. Are Colleges Ready? - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Mary Meeker wants AI and higher education to be partners – Axios
MIT Guide to Responsible use of AI in Higher Education – MIT Sloan Management Review
This University Had an AI Robot as Commencement Speaker. Yes, It Was Weird. - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language. – The Atlantic
OpenAI announces first partnership with a university – CNBC
How AI Has Begun Changing University Roles, Responsibilities – Inside Higher Ed
Drexel University AI policies – Drexel
A.I. Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students – New York Times
How Higher Ed Can Adapt to the Challenges of AI - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Survey: How Are Profs, Staff Using AI? – Inside Higher Ed
What teachers call AI cheating, leaders in the workforce might call progress – Hechinger Report
Teachers Use AI to Grade Student Work. It’s Harsher Than They Are. Teachers Use AI to Grade Student Work. It’s Harsher Than They Are. – Wall Street Journal
AI can't replace teaching but it can make it better – Wired
AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught – IEEE
What's next with AI in higher education? – Phys.org
Morehouse College is Using AI assistants – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Can I Use A.I. to Grade My Students’ Papers? – New York Times
Academic Success Tip: Infusing AI into Curricular Offerings – Inside Higher Ed
Google and MIT launch a free generative AI course for teachers – Zdnet
This AI Tool Cut One Teacher's Grading Time in Half. How It Works – Ed Week
California teachers are using AI to grade papers. Who’s grading the AI? – Cal Matters
Making Progress Against ChatGPT - Inside Higher Ed
A quarter of U.S. teachers say AI tools do more harm than good in K-12 education – Pew Research
How two professors harnessed generative AI to teach students to be better writers – Fast Company
AI, online courses divide students, faculty, administrators – Inside Higher Ed
Professors Ask: Are We Just Grading Robots? Some are riding the AI wave. Others feel like they’re drowning. –Chronicle of Higher Ed
How AI Is Changing The Teaching Profession Forever – Forbes
How a computer science professor is using AI in her classroom – UAB
Are You Ready To Use AI In Your Teaching? – Forbes
Survey: How Are Profs, Staff Using AI? – Inside Higher Ed
How two professors harnessed generative AI to teach students to be better writers – Fast Company
AI isn't a daily habit yet for teens, young adults - Axios
University Suspends Students for AI Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make – 404 Media
College-bound students concerned about AI skills – Inside Higher Ed
New report shows widespread usage of AI by high school seniors – The National Desk
AI Detection Is a Business. But Should It Be Faculty Business? – Chronicle of Higher Ed
New Data Reveal How Many Students Are Using AI to Cheat – Ed Week
The Risky Words That Might Make School Admissions Suspect AI Wrote Your Essay – Slash Gear
College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’ – New York Post
Facial Recognition Heads to Class. Will Students Benefit? - Inside Higher Ed
66% of leaders wouldn't hire someone without AI skills, report finds – ZDnet
Humans plus AI detectors can catch AI-generated academic writing – University World News
Teen and Young Adult Perspectives on Generative AI: Patterns of Use, Excitements, and Concerns – Common Sense Media
AI and the Death of Student Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed
How two professors harnessed generative AI to teach students to be better writers – Fast Company
A.I. Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students – New York Times
AI is getting very popular among students and teachers, very quickly – CNBC
Six New LinkedIn Features College Students should care about - Her Campus
AI chatbots have thoroughly infiltrated scientific publishing. One percent of scientific articles published in 2023 showed signs of generative AI’s potential involvement, according to a recent analysis - Scientific American
The journey from research data generation to manuscript publication presents many opportunities where AI could, hypothetically, be used – for better or for worse. - Technology Network
Is ChatGPT corrupting peer review? There are telltale words that hint at AI use. A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots. - Nature
Should researchers use AI to write papers? This group aims to release a set of guidelines by August, which will be updated every year - Science.org
Generative AI firms should stop ripping off publishers and instead work with them to enrich scholarship, says Oxford University Press’ David Clark. - Times Higher Ed
Here are three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing. Generative AI can be a valuable aid in writing, editing and peer review – if you use it responsibly - Nature
New detection tools powered by AI have lifted the lid on what some are calling an epidemic of fraud in medical research and publishing. Last year, the number of papers retracted by research journals topped 10,000 for the first time. - DW News (video)
Estimating the prevalence of ChatGPT "contamination” in the scholarly literature: It is estimated that at least 60,000 papers (slightly over 1% of all articles) were LLM-assisted - ArXiiv
AI-Generated Texts from LLM has infiltrated the realm of scientific writing? We confirmed and quantified the widespread influence of AI-generated texts in scientific publications across many scientific domains - BioRxiv
Georgetown found that American scholarly institutions and companies are the biggest contributors to AI safety research, but it pales in comparison to the amount of overall studies into AI, raising questions about public and private sector priorities. - Semafor
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history. - 404Media
The Association of Research Libraries announced a set of seven guiding principles for university librarians to follow in light of rising generative AI use. - Inside Higher Ed
Is AI ready to mass-produce lay summaries of research articles? – Nature
The Latest “Crisis” — Is the Research Literature Overrun with ChatGPT- and LLM-generated Articles? – Scholarly Kitchen
Peer Review and Scientific Publishing Are Faltering – Medscape
Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research - The Washington Post
Generative artificial intelligence and scientific publishing: urgent questions, difficult answers – The Lancet
Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI – Nature
Authorship and ChatGPT: a Conservative View – Springer
AI-generated images and video are here: how could they shape research? – Nature
Fake academic papers are on the rise: why they’re a danger and how to stop them – The Conversation
Paul M. Sutter Thinks We’re Doing Science (and Journalism) Wrong – Undark
More published research should be debunked and retracted, watchdogs say – Wisconsin Public Radio
How Science Sleuths Track Down Bad Research – Wall Street Journal
Could AI Disrupt Peer Review? Publishers’ policies lag technological advances - Spectrum
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific Review Articles - Springer
‘Obviously ChatGPT’ — how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud - Nature
AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress - Economist
Researchers plan to release guidelines for the use of AI in publishing - Chemical & Engineering News
ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken - Nature
Detecting fraud in scientific publications: the perils and promise of AI - Science Pod
The Science family of journals is adopting the use of Proofig, an artificial intelligence (AI)–powered image-analysis tool- Science Magazine
Can ChatGPT and Other AI Bots Serve as Peer Reviewers? - ACS Publishing
AI Use in Manuscript Preparation for Academic Journals - Cornell University
As scientists face a flood of papers, AI developers aim to help New tools show promise, but technical and legal barriers may hinder widespread use - Science Magazine
Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science? – Nature
Affiliation Bias in Peer Review of Abstracts by a Large Language Mode - JAMA
AI copilots and robo-labs turbocharge research - Axios
Editing companies are stealing unpublished research to train their AI - Times Higher Ed
How journals are fighting back against a wave of questionable images - Nature
Can ChatGPT evaluate research quality? - Cornell University
The JSTOR Daily Sleuth - Jstor
Generation GPT: What Gen Z really thinks about ‘world-changing’ AI – Washington Post
9 AI Tools For College Students That’ll Make Your Life So Much Easier – Her Campus
My 5 favorite AI tools for school: Class is in session, and generative AI can help – ZDnet
Nearly half of college students are using AI tools this fall, but fewer than a quarter of faculty members use them – Inside Higher Ed
Artificial Intelligence: A Graduate-Student User’s Guide – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Applying to College? Here’s How A.I. Tools Might Hurt, or Help. – New York Times
Turns out that students, not teachers, are the bigger skeptics when it comes to using ChatGPT - Ed Week
Students can quote ChatGPT in essays as long as they do not pass the work off as their own, international qualification body says – Business Insider
AI bots can seem sentient. Students need guardrails - Inside Higher Ed
Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests - New York Times
Can ChatGPT get into Harvard? We tested its admissions essay - Washington Post
Your classmate could be an AI student at this Michigan university – Futurism
Surprise! AI chatbots don't increase student cheating afterall, new research finds - ZDnet
Survey: College students' thoughts on AI and careers – Inside Higher Ed
What Students Are Saying About Learning to Write in the Age of A.I. - New York Times
There are countless credible accusations of (academic) misconduct that go uncorrected; I myself have published articles challenging the integrity of hundreds of papers. The majority of them have not been retracted, corrected or even remarked upon. I would wager that most reasonably large universities (my own included) have faculty members who are known to have plagiarized, fabricated, falsified, claimed undue credit, hidden financial conflicts of interest or misbehaved in numerous other ways and who have seemingly gone unpunished."
New York University professor Charles Seife writing in the New York Times
Generative AI – the latest scapegoat for research assessment – London School of Economics
How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing – Nature
Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal – Wiley Online
Scientists prefer feedback from ChatGPT to judgement by peers – New Scientist
Will ChatGPT Transform Research? It Already Has, Say Nobelists – Inside Higher Ed
‘We’re All Using It’: Publishing Decisions Are Increasingly Aided by AI. That’s Not Always Obvious. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
A machine-learning tool can easily spot when chemistry papers are written using the chatbot ChatGPT – Nature
Who Published It? – Asian Scientist
Transparency in research: An analysis of ChatGPT usage acknowledgment by authors across disciplines and geographies - Taylor & Francis Online
Science journals overturn ban on ChatGPT-authored papers – Times Higher Ed
The Trouble With AI Writing Detection – Inside Higher Ed
College application season is here. So is the struggle to find out if AI wrote students’ essays – Cal Matters
If using ChatGPT to write essays becomes widespread, those students who elect not to use it, who prefer to do the work themselves, may suffer a penalty for doing so. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Results of a new survey flip the early narrative on ChatGPT—that students would rush to use it to cheat on assignments and that teachers would scramble to keep up—on its head. Half of students, ages 12-18, said they have never used ChatGPT. – Ed Week
OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector – Tech Crunch
Universities Rethink Using AI Writing Detectors to Vet Students’ Work – Bloomberg
Identifying AI’s flaws motivates students and helps them build confidence, which can discourage cheating. Pointing out where it still really messes up is very powerful for empowering students to see their own strengths as human thinkers. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
Students cheat out of desperation so one professor will give multi-level assignments that force students to submit papers at various stages to keep track of their progress. – Yahoo News
The AI Detection Arms Race Is On And college students are developing the weapons, quickly building tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection. – Wired
Simply leaving it up to students to decide whether they’re going to do the work, without further comment or intervention or negative sanction from me, is a failure of pedagogy. – Chronicle of Higher Ed
AI detectors have low efficiency, and simple modifications can allow even the most robust detectors to be easily bypassed. – Science Direct
Suspicion, Cheating & Bans: AN Hits America's Schools (podcast) – New York Times
AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers – Nature
Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting - Retraction Watch
Spitting out the AI Gobbledegook sandwich: a suggestion for publishers - Dorothy V. M. Bishop blog
AI destroys principles of authorship. A scary case from educational technology publishing. - Marco Kalz blog
Artificial Intelligence–Generated Research in the Literature: Is It Real or Is It Fraud? - Mary Ann Liebert Publishers
ChatGPT used in peer reviews of Australian Research Council grant applications – itnews
As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies – Science.org
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect – Wired
Draft law in China sets out penalties for AI-aided academic writing – University World News
Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers – Nature
AI poses risks to research integrity, universities say – Research Professional News
No, ChatGPT Can’t Be Your New Research Assistant – London School of Economics
Useful applications of AI in higher education – for which no specialist tech knowledge is needed – Times of Higher Ed
Guidance for Authors, Peer Reviewers, and Editors on Use of AI, Language Models, and Chatbots – JAMA Network
How A.I. systems can accelerate scientific research – New York Times
Publishers seek protection from AI mining of academic research – Times Higher Ed
Artificial-intelligence search engines wrangle academic literature – Nature
AI can crack double blind peer review – should we still use it? – London School of Economics
Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT – Nature
Pushing students from science into the humanities tended to decrease their later-life wages — that’s finding is not surprising. But the converse also appeared to be true: Pushing students from the humanities into science also tended to, if anything, decrease their wages. While there are certain very high-paying majors (like engineering, economics, and computer science) that increase students’ earning potential even if they would prefer to study something else, helping students to study their most-preferred major generally seems to provide long-run financial benefits even in the humanities.
Students should know that when it comes to choosing a college degree, small differences in average-wage-by-major statistics shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Especially when the average wage differences between majors are not very big, students should put their own strengths first and not let the statistics cloud their understanding of their own interests.
Zachary Bleemer writing in the The Chronicle of Higher Ed
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Scientific authorship in the time of ChatGPT - Chemistry
AI could rescue scientific papers from the curse of jargon – Free Think
Science journals ban listing of ChatGPT as co-author on papers – The Guardian
ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove – Nature (subscription req)
Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists – Nature (subscription req)
The World Association of Medical Editors has created guidelines for the use of ChatGPT and other chatbots - Medscape (sub req)
ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals – just as some ban it – The Conversation
It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed
As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies – Science
AI writing tools could hand scientists the ‘gift of time’ – Nature
ChatGPT Is Everywhere Love it or hate it, academics can’t ignore the already pervasive technology– Chronicle of Higher Ed
Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT – Scholarly Kitchen
AI Is Impacting Education, but the Best Is Yet to Come – Inside Higher Ed
AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot – The Guardian
How to Cite ChatGPT – APA Style
Researchers claim to have developed tool capable of detecting scientific text generated by ChatGPT with 99% accuracy – University of Kansas
ChatGPT: five priorities for research – The Journal Nature
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