AI & Overreliance: Professor Peat’s Dilemma As students and educators increasingly rely on AI to complete intellectual work, they must confront an important question: when does a helpful tool begin replacing human thinking? View
AI Alignment: The Ultimate Peril? As AI systems become increasingly capable and autonomous, ensuring they pursue human goals rather than unintended objectives has become a major challenge in AI development. View
AI, Energy & the Environment: Data Centers Come to West Texas AI is driving demand for massive data centers, pushing communities to weigh the promise of economic growth against concerns over water use, electricity demand, and environmental impact. View
AI & Cyberwarfare: Anthropic vs. the DOD The Department of Defense sought to remove restrictions on AI for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, sparking a debate over where the ethical limits of AI warfare should be drawn. View
AI & Agency: Because You Liked… AI Recommender Systems are shaping our viewing habits by curating what we see, raising deep questions about autonomy, agency, and control. View
AI & Trust: Tay’s Trespasses Microsoft’s Tay, an AI chatbot intended as a friendly companion, was quickly manipulated into spewing offensive content by internet trolls—highlighting the need for trustworthy AI systems. View
AI & Transparency: An Epic Deception Epic’s widely used AI tool for sepsis detection promised accuracy, but the “black-box” nature of the algorithm made it difficult to quickly and effectively evaluate its effectiveness. View
AI & Fairness: Beyond Blind Spots? AI tools from companies like Amazon and Google were supposed to remove human bias from hiring, but instead ended up replicating and reinforcing the same discrimination they aimed to fix. View
AI & Accountability: Who’s at the Wheel? When a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in 2018, it brought forth the question many had been pondering for years: when AI systems make fatal mistakes, who is truly accountable? View
Cheating: UNC’s Academic Fraud UNC’s academic fraud scandal uncovered an 18-year scheme of unchecked coursework and fraudulent classes that enabled student-athletes to play sports. View