AI RESOURCES

 

 

Terminology/Machine Learning and "AI" Definitions

What is AI?

AI Pedagogy Project, metaLAB (at) Harvard

 

Key Terms

AI Pedagogy Project, metaLAB (at) Harvard

 

What is Generative AI?

University of Arizona Libraries

 

Agentic AI vs. Generative AI

Teaganne Finn, Amanda Downie, IBM Think

 

AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI Explained (YouTube)

Jeff Crume, IBM Technology 

 

What Is Augmented Intelligence?

IEEE Digital Reality

 

 

Teaching and Utility

Ways to Build Critical Literacy in the Age of AI

Catherine Gibbons, Edutopia

 

Teaching the Environmental Impact of AI Through PBL

Jorge Valenzuela, Edutopia 

 

Understanding AI Bias

Common Sense Education

 

Why Learn About AI for Multimedia?

University of Arizona Libraries

 

 

Social/Historical/Environmental 

Calculating EmpiresA Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler (2023)

 

Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data and Planetary Resources

Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler (2018)

 

Kate Crawford on “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (YouTube)

Kate Crawford, Claudia Schmuckli, Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco

 

Kate Crawford - AI Articles 

katecrawford.net, Kate Crawford et al.

 

Lithium and the New Green Extractionism

Kim Stringfellow, mojaveproject.org

 

Libraries Lead Podcast: AI Watch (October 2025) 

Library Journal

 

Teaching the Environmental Impact of AI Through PBL

Jorge Valenzuela, Edutopia

 

What We Know About Energy Use at U.S. Data Centers Amid the AI Boom

Rebecca Leppert, Pew Research Center

 

Artificial Intelligence Technology Behind ChatGPT Was Built in Iowa--With a Lot of Water

Matt O'Brien, Hannah Fingerhut, AP News

 

We Did the Math on AI's Energy Footprint...

James O'Donnell, Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review

 

Ruha Benjamin and Kate Crawford on AI and the Future (YouTube)

Ruha Benjamin, Kate Crawford, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Pioneer Works

 

 

 

Personal Research & Copyright

The Three Cs of AI-Generated Content: Copyright, Citation, and Circumspection

Reed Hepler, Library 2.0

 

 

 

AI INFO HUBS:

AI Pedagogy Project (AI Pedagogy Project, metaLAB (at) Harvard)

AJL (Algorithmic Justice League)

DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute) 

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 

LIBRARY 2.0 

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

SLAAIT (State Libraries and AI Technologies Working Group)

 

 

 

BOOKS:

·       Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford (*Available in the library)

·       Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli (*Available in the library)

·       Empire of AI by Karen Hao (*Available in the library)

·       Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio

·       Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew

·       Artificial Unintelligence by Meredith Broussard

·       More Than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard

·       Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu (*Available in the library)

·       Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin

·       Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini

·       Hidden Systems by Dan Nott (*Available in the library)

·      The AI Con by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna (*Available in the library)