Exploring Reporting on AI:
Students choose one or more AI stories from the table below or find their own on a topic of choice, to explore individually or with fellow students as part of a small group.
Agriculture
How AI is cropping up in agriculture
Children and Youth
Safety vs. Surveillance in Dearborn Public Schools *Content note: This story discusses school shootings.
An Algorithm That Screens for Child Neglect Raises Concerns
Our children are growing up with AI; what you need to know
Children and AI: the risks and opportunities
Criminal Justice
How AI-Powered Tech Landed Man in Jail with Scant Evidence
South Florida Police Widely Use Facial Recognition, yet Resist Policies to Curb Abuse. That’s a Problem for People of Color.
Tech Tool Offers Police ‘Mass Surveillance on a Budget’
How Thousands of American Muslims Ended up on the Terrorist Watch List
Economics
How the AI Industry Profits from Catastrophe
How AI impacts financial consumers
Education
Tracked: How Colleges Use AI To Monitor Student Protests
Will AI Impact education? Let’s As AI to find out.
AI will affect teaching and learning. Let’s Get it Right.
Why we need to rethink education in the age of AI
Engineering & Design
The Future of Engineering in the AI age
How AI will impact design
Ethics
AI Justice: When AI Principals are Not Enough
Ethics of AI
Ethics and AI: three conversations companies need to have
Governance
Harsh AI Regulation from Congress Imperils Innovation
Who’s Watching? How Governments Used the Pandemic to Normalize Surveillance
Gig Workers in India Are Uniting To Take Back Control From Algorithms
The Gig Workers Fighting Back Against the Algorithms
South Africa’s Private Surveillance Machine Is Fueling a Digital Apartheid
Senators Push To Reform Police’s Cellphone Tracking Tools
AI, and a threat to democracy
The Implications of AI on national security
Health + Climate
Artificial Intelligence Systems Aim to Sniff out Signs of COVID-19 Outbreaks
Can Math Be Used to Predict an Outbreak?
How AI will affect climate
The potential of AI in healthcare
How Doctors are using ChatGPT
Humanities
Exploring the Critical Intersection Between the Humanities and Artificial Intelligence
The Information Revolution put Tech Disciplines at the Center, but now it needs Humanities
The role of the arts and humanities when thinking about AI Now the Humanities Can Disrupt AI
How is AI changing art history?
Tool or Terror? Using Literature to Understand AI
Media and entertainment
Benefits of AI in the entertainment industry
Three ways media can leverage AI
Nonprofits, social justice
AI: Why the nonprofit sector should pay attention
AI for Social Justice
How is AI impacting administrative individuals?
Underrepresented communities
A New Vision of Artificial Intelligence for the People
How AI can deepen racial and economic disparities
Using AI to promote diversity