31 Recent Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

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Researcher who asked ChatGPT to help reorganize her study says when she told it to “continue,” it emailed 5 researchers for their datasets – Nature

As a journal editor, I’ve started using Claude to help find reviewers – Dynamic Ecology

Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI can help with academic research but doesn’t always get it right – here are some tips to check the information you receive – The Conversation

Google launches Deep Review AI tool to help researchers catch manuscript errors - R&D World

Did an AI or a human write that paper? New detector decides by examining its ideas – Science

AI use in STEM PhD dissertations reaches 29%, study finds - Chemical & Engineering News

Dutch minister criticises ‘fraud’ as ‘fifth of theses AI-written’ – Times Higher Ed

Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use – Nature

AI in Medical Writing: Why JACC Does Not Require Disclosure - Journal of the American College of Cardiology  

Is this the ‘mathocalypse’? Why OpenAI’s latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock – The Conversation

As AI triggers a tsunami of submissions, computer science conferences impose caps – Science

Has AI Destroyed the Doctoral Dissertation? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Authorship responsibilities of scientists who use AI research agents – Frontiers

Coping with the impacts of generative artificial intelligence on scholarly publications – Taylor & Francis

Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? – Columbia Journalism Review

What can chemists learn from how AI is shaking up mathematics? - Chemical & Engineering News

Should AI Have a Role in Peer Review? – The Scientist

Against mandatory prompt disclosure in AI-assisted scholarship – Springer

The systemic breach of AI in academic publishing: Infrastructural failures and authorial misconduct across seven major publishers - Taylor & Francis

Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ – Nature

Replacing every part of the research process with AI will leave science recognizable but devoid of human judgment. – Undark

AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable - Nature

AI ‘could filter out weaker grant proposals’, study suggests – Research Professional News

AI slop’ hides the conversations we should be having - Nature

U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed – Science

We’re asking the wrong question about AI in research - Times Higher Ed

AI cannot replace human participants in behavioral research. - National Academy of Sciences.

AI bots like iLands are “flooding researchers with requests for money and time.” – Nature

Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research? – Med Page Today

AI Definitions: Steganography

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Steganography (pronounced STEG-an-ography, like the “Steg” in “stegasaurus”) - A method of tracking images by embedding an invisible code into the pixels that is invisible to humans but travels with the image throughout its lifetime. The marked images can be traced back to the original source with a high level of accuracy because the code is embedded directly into the image’s pixels. Because the watermarks are part of the image itself, they are nearly impossible to remove — able to survive common image-related manipulation such as aggressive cropping and taking screenshots of the image. If you’ve created an AI image recently, you’ve almost certainly used steganography without even knowing it. Most major AI image generation companies now use the tech. Companies are adding a poisoning application to these images. If someone tries to use them for deepfakes, the user will find them garbled and unusable.  

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AI Definitions: Supervised Training

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Supervised Training - In this type of AI training, the data is labeled by humans before it is given to the AI. For instance, the bot might be given a database of messages labeled “spam” or “not spam.”  Supervised learning is the most common type of machine learning and is used in voice recognition, language translation, and self-driving cars. Anything that a person can do in a second can also be performed by AI through supervised training. This is why jobs consisting of a series of one-second tasks are at risk of being replaced. Most of the present economic value of AI comes from this type of training. However, supervised training is both expensive and time-consuming.

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27 Recent Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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To Get This Job at McKinsey, You’ll Need to Survive a Debate With AI First – Wall Street Journal  

AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise? – CNBC

Marketers Are Rebranding as ‘Engineers’ to Survive the AI Era - Wall Street Journal  

The Non-AI AI Jobs - The Atlantic

Would You Hire a Ph.D. Who Wrote Their Dissertation With AI? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

What Happens To Entry-Level Workers When AI Does The Junior Work? – Forbes

Fearing AI, workers go back to school seeking jobs that still need a human touch – Washington Post

Young Consultants Are Jumping Ship for A.I. Start-Ups – New York Times

AI Is Creating More Data. The Next Big Skill Is Knowing What To Do With It – Analytics India

The Most AI-Exposed College Graduates Are Entering Another Great Recession - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Nearly 1 in 3 College Students Are Changing Careers Over AI. Should They? – Inc

The Case for Saving Every AI Chat – Wall Street Journal

Elon survey finds Americans fear AI will hollow out the meaning of work – Elon University

Is AI killing jobs for college grads? Not yet, new study says. – Washington Post

I surveyed workers to see if AI had caused job losses and was surprised by the findings – The Conversation

China’s New Graduates, Facing a Dire Job Market, Must Also Contend With A.I. – New York Times

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds – Ars Technica  

On teaching AI how you work - Karl Koch

Why Your Boss Wants to Make Sure AI Can Read Your Slack Messages – Wall Street Journal

Where A.I. Is Creating Jobs for Humans — For a While - New York Times

Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs? – New Yorker

AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work? – CBS News

How to Outsmart AI When It’s Tracking Your Workday – Wall Street Journal

AI Career Skills Move Beyond Computer Science – Inside Higher Ed

Women are missing out on the AI jobs boom – Axios

Fearing AI, young workers retrain for hands-on jobs – Hechinger Report

Many recent grads say AI is making it harder to get a job. Economists aren't so sure – NPR

Women are missing out on the AI jobs boom - Axios

21 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

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How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact – WIRED

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence – Tech Crunch

Scammers used AI to impersonate me, a KUOW reporter. Here’s how to avoid such traps - KUOW

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices – CNBC

I almost fell for an AI job scam because the usual red flags weren't there. Here's how I caught it. – Business Insider

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family – WIRED

Hackers Use Chinese AI Tool to Hit South Korean Banks, Exposing New Risk – Wall Street Journal  

Cybersecurity 101 still applies in the AI world – Axios

Can researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas? – Science Business

Hackers who broke into OpenAI warn the AI industry has a security problem – Washington Post

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People – 404 Media  

To Catch AI Cheating, Turnitin Wants to Monitor Students’ Keystrokes – Chronicle of Higher Ed  

They hacked a TikTok user’s camera, with help from free AI – Washington Post

The Personal AI Agent Horror Stories Are Rolling in – Business Insider

Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You Are – Wall Street Journal  

The AI hacking crisis is already here – Axios

Meta’s Muse is taking off. So are the privacy concerns – Fast Company

How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age – Wall Street Journal  

AI has transformed the Pentagon’s aging networks into a national security risk – Washington Post

AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals – Business Insider

Consumers Muse Over AI Privacy Concerns - Wall Street Journal  

JOMO: The joy of missing out

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One of the joys of aging (I’m 64) is to recognize that what used to be important no longer is. There’s no obsession now with social media, no need to follow fleeting trends; the latest movie or fashion style or restaurant or celebrity is unimportant. There’s a sense of peace that comes with pulling back from the zeitgeist and spending the day reading a library book, taking a walk, and preparing a meal. JOMO is real, and its benefits can be achieved at any age if the desire is strong enough.

Comment made by NYCtoMalibu on the New York Times article, “How to Make This the Summer of Missing Out”

Internet-connected Devices are Vulnerable to AI Worms

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Small AI models are “months away” from developing the capabilities needed to replicate themselves across internet-connected devices in the home, such as smart ovens or Android TV boxes, and use their computing power to run themselves and spread to other devices, without relying on expensive data centers. A model that is too large to fit on one device could “split into pieces, or shards” and run across multiple devices. -CNBC

28 Articles about AI & Writing

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Don’t let AI kill the author – The Economist

Don’t Write With AI, Say People Who Write With AI – The Atlantic

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting – WIRED

Research reveals the ways students really use AI to write – Virginia Tech

AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand – Futurism

When Black Writers Are Guilty Until Proved Human – New York Times

Autonomous AI Agents Are Trying to Make Writing Their Livelihood – Book Gossip

New research: Avoid these 3-word phrases if you don't want to sound like AI – Fast Company

I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. – New York Times

Would You Hire a Ph.D. Who Wrote Their Dissertation With AI? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI Slop Coming to a Library Near You – Inside Higher Ed

Every Word My Employee Writes Reeks of A.I. – New York Times

Most Academics Haven’t Used AI to Write but Think Limited Use Is OK, Chronicle Survey Finds - Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI. – Poynter

Now We’re All Starting to Talk Like AI Chatbots Too – Wall Street Journal

His Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test. - New York Times

Scholars are divided over how much AI use is acceptable. – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Text Watermarking in Python: Catch Whoever Copies Your Writing – Toward Data Science

Write digital headlines both readers and Google will love – NPR

The Future of Plagiarism – Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Turning Point in AI Writing The Wall Street Journal is defending an op-ed written by a chatbot - The Atlantic

The CSU paid millions for every student to have ChatGPT. What happened after? – San Francisco Gate 

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? – Pew Research

The Next Wave of AI-Cheating Technology – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Can you spot AI-written stories? Listen and find out – NPR

The AI detection McCarthyism – LinkedIn

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models – Tech Crunch

An A.I. detection start-up promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn’t made by humans – New York Times

AI Researchers Taking up Smoking?

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Some AI researchers are taking up smoking to signal their belief that AI will eventually cure cancer, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said during an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation." Sankar did not name any researchers or provide evidence for the claim, but said some people in Silicon Valley have placed quasi-religious faith in AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). -Business Insider

ChatGPT Fails to Alert Parents

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When parents set up controls to link their accounts with their teenager’s, the chatbot is supposed to send them notifications when the child brings up sensitive topics. Common Sense Media’s testers spent an hour talking about suicidal ideation, self-harm or disordered eating with new parent-linked accounts, and OpenAI sent zero notifications to the parent accounts. -New York Times

13 Things People are Trying to Get AI to Do

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