February 9, 2023

By now you’ve probably heard about chatbots and other AI-enhanced tools. While these programs have been around for a while, they have been making headlines ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT, its new chatbot, in November. This new chatbot has been heralded by some as the best piece of AI software ever made because of its ability to do everything from creating software to writing papers.

Educators in particular are concerned about the implications of an advanced tool like ChatGPT, with some secondary schools blocking access to the site and researchers and institutions of higher education wondering what tools like this will mean for teaching and research—and if there’s an opportunity for good.   

There is a lot of information and opinions out there about chatbots and ChatGPT specifically. That’s why Drexel librarians compiled a list of resources organized by broad, interconnecting subject areas, which they have personally found to be interesting, educational, and thought-provoking.

We hope this list of books, journal articles, blog posts, videos, and social media content—which is certainly not comprehensive—will serve as a starting point to raise your awareness and foster further exploration and discussion about the use of chatbots and AI in education and our everyday lives.

This is a rapidly developing area of technology. Libraries staff will maintain a running list of relevant resources via Zotero, a reference management tool. Please contact us at library@drexel.edu to recommend resources for inclusion on this list.  

ChatGPT in Teaching & Learning

• AI Homework [Stratechery]
• AI Writing Detection: A Losing Battle Worth Fighting [Inside Higher Ed]
• A Conversation on Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, and Plagiarism in Higher Education [Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering]
• ChatGPT Advice Academics Can Use Now [Inside Higher Ed]
• ChatGPT Both Is and Is Not Like a Calculator [Inside Higher Ed]
• ChatGPT: Threat or Menace? [Inside Higher Ed]
• Chatting about ChatGPT: How May AI and GPT Impact Academia and Libraries? [SSRN preprint repository]
• Cheating on Your College Essay with ChatGPT Won’t Get You Good Grades, Say Professors—But AI Could Make Education Fairer [Insider]
• Cheating With CheatGPT: Can OpenAI’s Chatbot Pass AP Lit? [YouTube]
• Collaborating with ChatGPT: Considering the Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Journalism and Media Education [Journalism & Mass Communication Educator]
• Coping with ChatGPT [Inside Higher Ed]
• Deconstructing ChatGPT on the Future of Continuing Education [Inside Higher Ed]
• Designing Assignments in the ChatGPT Era [Inside Higher Ed]
• Ethical College Admissions: ‘I Am Not a Robot’ [Inside Higher Ed]
• Freaking Out About ChatGPT – Part 1 [Inside Higher Ed]
• How About We Put Learning at the Center? [Inside Higher Ed]
• Information Literacy, Data Literacy, Privacy Literacy, and ChatGPT: Technology Literacies Align with Perspectives on Emerging Technology Adoption within Communities [SSRN preprint repository]
• My First Chat With the Bot [Inside Higher Ed]
• Promises and Pitfalls of ChatGPT [Inside Higher Ed]
• Psychology of Creativity and Innovation in Engineering and Business Curriculum [Multidisciplinary Aspects of Production Engineering]
• Seeing Past the Dazzle of ChatGPT [Inside Higher Ed]
• Teachers v ChatGPT: Schools Face New Challenge in Fight Against Plagiarism [The Straits Times]
• Teaching Experts Are Worried about ChatGPT, but Not for the Reasons You Think [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• Teaching: Rethinking Research Papers, and Other Responses to ChatGPT [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• The College Essay is Dead [The Atlantic]
• The End of High-School English [The Atlantic]
• Update Your Course Syllabus for ChatGPT [Medium]
• Using GPT-3 to Search for Scientific “References” [Eiko Fried]
• When AI is Writing, Who is the Author? [Inside Higher Ed]
• Why I’m Not Scared of ChatGPT [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• Will ChatGPT Change the Way You Teach? [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• With ChatGPT, We’re All Editors Now [Inside Higher Ed]
• Worried About ChatGPT? Don’t Be.  [Inside Higher Ed]

ChatGPT in Research & Publishing

• ChatGPT at Universities – The Least of Our Concerns [SSRN preprint repository]
• ChatGPT Listed as Author on Research Papers: Many Scientists Disapprove [Nature]
• ChatGPT: Our Study Shows AI Can Produce Academic Papers Good Enough for Journals—Just as Some Ban it [The Conversation]
• Don’t Write Like a Robot [Chronicle of Higher Education] 
• Tools such as ChatGPT Threaten Transparent Science; Here are our Ground Rules for Their Use [Nature]

ChatGPT in the Broader Context of Artificial Intelligence

• AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent [Vice]
• ChatGPT is Not All You Need. A State of the Art Review of Large Generative AI Models [Machine Learning]
• Engineering Innovation: From Idea to Market Through Concepts and Case Studies [ebook]
• Introducing ChatGPT! [Medium]
• Issue 93: Chat-bots Powered by Artificial Intelligence [Disruptive Library Technology Jester]
• I spent New Years building GPTZero—An App that can Quickly and Efficiently Detect Whether an Essay is ChatGPT or Human Written [series of tweets via Thread Reader]
• Meta Trained on AI on 48M Science Papers. It Was Shut Down After 2 Days [CNET]
• Microsoft Hopes OpenAI’s Chatbot Will Make Bing Smarter [Bloomberg]
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? [Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency]
• Will 2023 Be The Year That OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaks Free [Forbes]
• Yes, ChatGPT is Amazing and Impressive. No, OpenAI Has Not Come Close to Addressing the Problem of Bias. [Twitter]

ChatGPT in Medicine, Technology & Business

• A State-of-the-Art Survey of Digital Twin: Techniques, Engineering Product Lifecycle Management, and Business Innovation Perspectives [Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing]
• ChatGPT: Evolution or Revolution? [Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy]
• The Future of AI in Medicine: A Perspective from a Chatbot [Annals of Biomedical Engineering]
• Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education Using Large Language Models [MedRxiv preprint server]

Social Impact of ChatGPT

• Chatbots Could One Day Replace Search Engines. Here’s Why That’s a Terrible Idea. [MIT Technology Review]
• ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think [The Atlantic]
• Don’t Fall for the AI Hype w/ Timnit Gebru—Tech Won’t Save Us [Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast]
• Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic [Time]
• Talking to AI Might Be the Most Important Skill of this Century [The Atlantic]
• The Moral Authority of ChatGPT [Computers and Society]