AI Book review, or News and Research?

Book Club Podcast?
Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading:
Dan's reading:
• Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson (TED Talk)
• Why Data Science Projects Fail, by Douglas Gray and Evan Shellshear (An interview with Evan)
Ray's reading
• The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, by Kate Crawford (Wikipedia page)
News Links
Links to the reports and news we discuss in the episode:
OpenAI's new Education newsletter openaiforeducation.substack.com
Ethan Mollick's new "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" course on Coursera coursera.org/learn/wharton-ai-in-education-lev…
World Economic Forum "Future of Jobs report" weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-re…
Student expelled and deported because they were accused of using ChatGPT by their professor. So they're suing their professor fox9.com/video/1574324
Digital Education Council Global AI Faculty Survey 2025 digitaleducationcouncil.com/post/digital-educa… We'll discuss this report with one of the authors in next week's episode
UK government policy paper on "Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education" gov.uk/government/publications/generative-arti…
Year13 Case Study on AI use news.microsoft.com/en-au/2024/12/13/guiding-sc…
AI Use by industry employees - US, 2024 nber.org/papers/w32966
In the discussion of energy use by AI, Ray mentioned some stats from this research report: "The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans" arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.06219.pdf
Research Papers
And finally, links to the research papers we discussed this week
ChatGPT and Its Educational Impact: Insights from a Software Development Competition arxiv.org/abs/2409.03779
How to Align Large Language Models for Teaching English? Designing and Developing LLM based-Chatbot for Teaching English Conversation in EFL, Findings and Limitations arxiv.org/abs/2409.04987
AI Meets the Classroom: When Does ChatGPT Harm Learning? arxiv.org/abs/2409.09047
Are Large Language Models Good Essay Graders? arxiv.org/abs/2409.13120
An Education Researcher's Guide to ChatGPT osf.io/spbz3
A Step Towards Adaptive Online Learning: Exploring the Role of GPT as Virtual Teaching Assistants in Online Education osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/rw45b
The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in action: A pilot implementation of GenAI-supported assessment ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/9434