Plese check here for new and notable reports and articles rom the last several months that we have found useful or thought-provoking about AI and LLMs in higher eduction and academic libraries!
IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations), May 25
Artificial Power, AI Now's 2025 Landscape Report, puts forward an actionable strategy for the public to reclaim agency over the future of AI. In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” the report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies – and the tech oligarchs that run them – power that goes far beyond their deep pockets. We need to reckon with the ways in which today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. The report moves from diagnosis to action: offering concrete strategies for community organizers, policymakers, and the public to change this trajectory.
The focus of this installment is on the copyright implications of generative AI training data. There’s a great technical review at the forefront of the report with how training data is incorporated into large AI models, how it is translated into tokens, etc. The second part is dedicated to issues of fair use, licensing, etc. related to the use of copyrighted work in training data (including a discussion of the four factors). Extremely well-researched with around 500 footnotes!
May 2025, US Copyright Office.
May 2025, Ithaka S+R
April 2025, Roy Kaufman, Scholarly Kitchen
March 2025, Jairo Buitrago-Ciro et al., IFLA Journal
October 2024,Hayong Lon, Journal of Web Librarianship
October 2024, Educause
Clarivate: Pulse of the Library--Generative AI (Data underlying report is freely available here)
September 2024, Clarivate
July 2024, US Copyright Office, Register of Copyrights
June 2004, Against the Grain, Special Issue (Vessela Ensberg and Pete Brantley, co-editors)
May 17, 2024, UK Government, Department of Science, Innovation and Technology
May 2024, US Senate, The Bipartisan US. Senate AI Working Group
May 2024, National Academies Press
May 3, 2024, Association of Research Libraries
May 3, 2024 Harvard Business Review Twelve persistent risks of AI that are driving skepticism.
April 12, 2024 Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Center
March 25, 2024 International Consortium of Library Consortia
January 10, 2024, Authors Alliance
December 18, 2023, OpenAI
December 7, 2023, Claire Baytas, Ithaka S+R.
September 1, 2023, Excerpt from Kees Van Deemter and Ehud Reiter's chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Lying.
November 7, 2023, Lorcan Dempsey.net
December 5, 2023, STM Association
Coding Inequity: Assessing GPT-4’s Potential for Perpetuating Racial and Gender Biases in Healthcare
July 17, 2023, preprint (i.e., not peer reviewed) by Travis Zack, Eric Lehman, Mirac Suzgun, Jorge A. Rodriguez, Leo Anthony Celi, Judy Gichoya, Dan Jurafsky, Peter Szolovits, David W. Bates, Raja-Elie E. Abdulnour, Atul J. Butte, Emily Alsentzer.
July 31, 2023, The Chronicle of Higher Education advice post by Kevin Gannon.
August 8, 2023, London School of Economics and Political Science blog post by Leonard Bauersfeld, Angel Romero, Manasi Muglikar, and Davide Scaramuzza.
July 10, 2023, principles from the Library Copyright Alliance, American Library Association (ALA), and Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
June 13, 2023, NPR Network: KUOW.org news story by Bill Radke.
May 11, 2023, Public Knowledge blog post by Nicholas Garcia.
May 2, 2023, webinar recording of Dr. Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Lilach Mollick, Director of Pedagogy, Wharton Interactive, hosted by Harvard Business Publishing. Learn more about the webinar's speakers and content.