LibGuides: G9 Revolutions &amp; Movements: The AI Revolution

What is AI? -- Implications -- Discussion -- A Game

“Artificial intelligence and generative AI may be the most important technology of any lifetime.” - Marc Benioff

Generative AI: What you need to know
A list of vocabulary you need to know to talk about AI, and some real truths of the pros and cons of Generative AI

Credo Source This link opens in a new window
Good for background research
Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Online Encyclopedia

This fictional book describes how an intelligent computer can be so ruthless to achieve its goal of financial profit, that it may mean the end of humanity.... Is it reality now? ** Available at BHA Library soon **

The environmental impact of AI
The carbon footprint of AI training models is enormous. This needs to be addressed urgently.
Put the brakes on!
Technology leaders urging the world to stop developing AI, and start thinking about the implications before moving on.

Issues and Controversies This link opens in a new window
features timely, in-depth articles covering complex, hot-button issues in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Designed to inspire thought-provoking debates, each article presents both sides of an issue clearly and without bias.
Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Examines topical issues from around the globe through different viewpoints. Content from around the world.

Generative AI: What you need to know
Learn about AI, and then develop the skill to see what is great, and good and maybe not so good or even evil about AI and the way it's used.

Universal Paper Clip Game
Let AI create the optimal production of paperclips and win the game! Or destroy the world......
Universal Paperclips is a game created by Frank Lantz of New York University. The user plays the role of an AI programmed to produce paperclips. Initially the user clicks on a button to create a single paperclip at a time; as other options quickly open up, the user can sell paperclips to create money to finance machines that build paperclips automatically. At various levels the exponential growth plateaus, requiring the user to invest resources such as money, raw materials, or computer cycles into inventing another breakthrough to move to the next phase of growth. The game ends if the AI succeeds in converting all the matter in the universe into paperclips.

Misinformation & Bias

"The precision of AI predictions and analyses can be seductive, leading many to conflate high accuracy with truth." - United Nations University

23 Incredible Benefits of AI
Article lists many advantages of AI.
United Nations Global AI Governance
Video explains the UN initiative to create global governance of the use of AI, to use its benefits and to meet its challenges.
CBS News: Bias in Chatbots
A chatbot told a 29-year old man to die, after he had asked questions about caring for aging adults.

Environmental Impact of AI

"Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone." - MIT Technology Review

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The environmental impact of AI
The carbon footprint of AI training models is enormous. This needs to be addressed urgently.
One AI image equals charging a full smartphone
Calculations of the energy necessary for the creation of one AI generated image.
Yale Environment 360: Energy use of A.I.
Argues that the pressure on the use of energy by AI is going to (or already is) growing at an alarming rate.
Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment?
Paper discusses and offers evidence of the huge impact on our energy resources that the use of AI tools has.

Human intelligence vs AI

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” - Joanna Maciejewska

5 Reasons For and 5 Reasons Against AI
Why AI must be stopped now!
Argues that the dangers of AI are so big, that it could mean the end of humanity as we know it.

G9 Revolutions & Movements: The AI Revolution

What is AI? -- Implications -- Discussion -- A Game

Misinformation & Bias

Environmental Impact of AI

Human intelligence vs AI

Library Books about AI