2024 UNC CAUSE

The use of LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot have made a splash in the last two years, & the ripples have affected many areas, with higher education feeling the waves on multiple fronts. The possibilities of AI have presented opportunities and issues for students, faculty, and staff at our institutions. This session seeks to explore the Good, productivity tools and research assistance; the Bad, intellectual property issues and plagiarism; and the Ugly, bias and discrimination; of AI and how these issues impact academia.
AI models can serve as powerful productivity tools, assisting educators and students with prompt generation, project outlines, analyzing papers, and more. This Good can be used for teaching & helping students and faculty to improve their research if taught and used correctly. We will provide an overview of apps that can help streamline these options, as well as how we have started to implement them with our users. We will also discuss working with faculty/staff to tackle AI. The University Libraries held an AI Symposium in Spring 2024 which explored the Ugly via algorithmic bias, the Good and Bad of incorporating AI into research, and other lesser known issues that are actively impacting our students and faculty. We will discuss what we are doing to address these concerns on our campus.
In summary, this session will show attendees some of the Good, Bad & the Ugly of AI, how it impacts our work, and what we can do to use AI effectively going forward.