AI RESOURCES

 

 

Terminology/Meanings

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

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

 

What is AI?

AI Pedagogy Project, metaLAB (at) Harvard

 

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

IBM Technology, Jeff Crume

 

What Is Augmented Intelligence?

IEEE Digital Reality

 

 

Social/Historical/Environmental 

Calculating Empires: A 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)

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

 

Lithium and the New Green Extractionism

mojaveproject.org, Kim Stringfellow

 

Libraries Lead Podcast: AI Watch (October 2025) 

Library Journal

 

Teaching the Environmental Impact of AI Through PBL

Edutopia, Jorge Valenzuela

 

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

Pew Research Center, Rebecca Leppert

 

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

AP News, Matt O'Brien, Hannah Fingerhut

 

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

MIT, James O'Donnell, Casey Crownhart

 

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

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

 

ILA 2025: Tech, Media, Nature & AI (YouTube)

DCL, Tech Librarian Andrew Gehlsen

 

 

 

Personal Research & Copyright

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

Library 2.0, Reed Hepler

 

 

 

AI INFO HUBS:

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