Generative Artificial Intelligence

Using Generative AI Ethically

As Generative AI tools become integrated into our world more and more, using them ethically is crucial to ensure academic integrity and reliable and accurate outcomes. Whether you're using Generative AI for research, creative work, or problem-solving, it is important to understand how to evaluate its outputs and properly cite its use. Generative AI tools generate content based on large datasets and advanced algorithms, but they lack the human comprehension to assess the information being provided. Therefore, evaluating their quality and reliability, as well as appropriately citing their outputs, is vital.

Generative AI's Impact

AI won't kill us all — but that doesn't make it trustworthy. Instead of getting distracted by future existential risks, AI ethics researcher Sasha Luccioni thinks we need to focus on the technology's current negative impacts, like emitting carbon, infringing copyrights and spreading biased information.

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