Rhetoric, Writing, and AI

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  • AI arms race

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    Abdujalil Abdurasulov. “The New AI Arms Race Changing the War in Ukraine.” BBC NEWS, 10 Oct. 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly7jrez2jno. With the current war between Ukraine and Russia, its unknown what the future of the war could be, and no it’s not what you think. Between these decisions you may be shocked to find its not President Zelensky…

  • The New Customer Service Tool

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    Wakefield, Jane. “Will AI Mean the End of Call Centres?” BBC NEWS, 2 Nov. 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz913ylq3k3o. With Customer Service features now using automated features, its taking the way people rely on help from a person as companies are replacing the “human feature”. Nowadays it feels like whenever someone calls for customer service nowadays it send directly…

  • Google Turns NYC Subway into AI Art Gallery

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    Tech Buzz. “Google Turns NYC Subway into AI Art Gallery with Veo.” The Tech Buzz, 13 November 2025, https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/google-turns-nyc-subway-into-ai-art-gallery-with-veo.  Google launched a collaborative AI art initiative called “Imagine If…”, integrated into public subway systems across New York City. Travelers have access to scanable QR codes on advertisement screens, where they then submit their dream prompt…

  • The Crucial Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Improving Health Care Management

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    Johannssen, A., & Chukhrova, N. (2025, September 30). The crucial role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management. Health care management science. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12535480/ This piece follows a somewhat similar theme to one of our graduate book reviews earlier this past week on the use of AI within health care institutions. Johannssen and…

  • Decoding Black Box AI: The Global Push for Explainability and Transparency

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    Mazrouei, N. S. A. (2025, October 27). Decoding black box ai: The global push for explainability and transparency. TRENDS Research & Advisory. https://trendsresearch.org/insight/decoding-black-box-ai-the-global-push-for-explainability-and-transparency/ This piece follows the EU’s AI Act and other legislation like it in the pursuit of making AI explainable to ensure that any deployments of it are as transparent as possible. This…

  • WHAT IS BLACK BOX AI THEORY?

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    What is Black Box AI Theory?. BeverlyBoy Productions. (2025, June 17). https://beverlyboy.com/filmmaking/what-is-black-box-ai-theory/. This piece, coming from a production company for marketing, outreach, and more offers insight into an area that I’m otherwise resistant to the involvement of AI within, those being creative fields. While not terribly connected directly to their own business practices, the other…

  • The Cost of Thinking

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    Michalowski, Jennifer. “The Cost of Thinking.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Nov. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/cost-of-thinking-1119. In this latest article, researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute led by Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko found a remarkable parallel between how humans and modern reasoning large language models take on difficult problems. They tested both people and AI models…

  • AI Maps How a New Antibiotic Targets Gut Bacteria

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    Donti, Priya. “AI Maps How a New Antibiotic Targets Gut Bacteria.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 Oct. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/ai-maps-how-new-antibiotic-targets-gut-bacteria-1003. In this article, researchers from MIT’s CSAIL and McMaster University used a generative AI model to analyze over 10,000 molecules and discovered enterololin, a compound that more precisely targets harmful gut bacteria linked to…

  • Fighting for the Health of the Planet with AI

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    Donti, Priya. “Fighting for the Health of the Planet with AI.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Oct. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/fighting-health-planet-ai-priya-donti-1007/. In this article, MIT highlights the work of Assistant Professor Priya Donti, whose research bridges machine learning and renewable energy to make power grids more efficient and climate-resilient. Growing up with a deep awareness…

  • Helping K-12 Schools Navigate the Complex World of AI

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    Benjamin Daniel. “Helping K-12 Schools Navigate the Complex World of AI.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 Nov. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/helping-k-12-schools-navigate-complex-world-of-ai-1103. In this piece, MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, led by Associate Professor Justin Reich, presents a new guidebook, A Guide to AI in Schools: Perspectives for the Perplexed, aimed at helping K–12 educators and school…