Generative AI and the Humanities

“Again Theory: A Forum on Language, Meaning, and Intent in the Time of Stochastic Parrots.” Critical Inquiry: In the Moment Blog, 27 June 2023, https://critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/again-theory-a-forum-on-language-meaning-and-intent-in-the-time-of-stochastic-parrots-2/.

AI Now Institute and NYU Center for Disability Studies. Disability, Bias, and AI. https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/disability-bias-and-ai-report/.

Bender, Emily M., et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜.” Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, 2021, pp. 610–23, https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.

Bibauw, Serge, et al. “Dialogue Systems for Language Learning: Chatbots and Beyond.” The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Technology, Routledge, 2022, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351117586/routledge-handbook-second-language-acquisition-technology-nicole-ziegler-marta-gonz%C3%A1lez-lloret.

Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press, 2021.

D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren Klein. Data Feminism. MIT Press, https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/.

Dzieza, Josh. “Inside the AI Factory.” The Verge, 20 June 2023, https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots.

Goodlad, Lauren. “Editor’s Introduction: Humanities in the Loop.” Critical AI, vol. 1, no. 1–2, Oct. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-10734016.

Mitchell, Melanie. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI. MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper 1: Overview of the Issues, Statement of Principles, and Recommendations. https://aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-paper-1/.

Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press, 2018.

Raley, Rita, and Jennifer Rhee. “Critical AI: A Field in Formation.” American Literature, vol. 95, no. 2, June 2023, pp. 185–204, https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575021.

Steyerl, Hito. “Mean Images.” New Left Review, no. 140/141, Apr. 2023, pp. 82–97, https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images. 

Stiennon, Nisan, et al. “Learning to Summarize with Human Feedback.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 33, Curran Associates, Inc., 2020, pp. 3008–21, https://proceedings.neurips.cc//paper_files/paper/2020/hash/1f89885d556929e98d3ef9b86448f951-Abstract.html.

• "How Large Language Models Work," Data Science at Microsoft, Medium

• Toner, Helen. "What Are Generative AI, Large Language Models, and Foundation Models?" CSET Georgetown.

• Schaul, Kevin, et al. “AI Can Now Create Images Out of Thin Air. See How It Works.” Washington Post.

• Ithaka S+R Generative AI Product Tracker

• MLA-CCCC, Exploring AI Pedagogy

• metaLAB at Harvard, AI Pedagogy Project

• Vee, Annette et al. TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, WAC Colorado State

• Google's Teachable Machine

• Baker, Dylan. "Datasets Have Worldviews" (Pair Explorables)

• UCI Pens and Pixels Conference resources on generative AI for second language learning

• Watkins, Ryan. "Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT," Medium, Dec. 2022.

• "The Five Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence" poster for K-12 (multiple languages)

• "The Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom" school mini-lesson, Facing History and Ourselves

• "AI Literacy" for schools, Expressive Machinery Lab at Georgia Tech

• Association of College and Research Libraries. "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." American Library Association, 2016.

• Distributed AI Research Institute

• Urban, April. "Digital Humanities Resource Guide," UCI Libraries.

• Free and/or open resources for play and experimentation: Hugging Face (for example, "Fine-tune a pretrained model" tutorial), GPT4All, Ollama, Chatbot Arena [no privacy]

• UC Legal Statement on Awareness of AI

• UCOP Electronic Accessibility/IT Accessibility