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King, J., & Meinhardt, C. (2024). Rethinking privacy in the AI era policy provocations for a data-centric world. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5446957 Our current data privacy safeguards are rooted in Fair Information Practices (FIPs), a framework from the early 1970s that preserves individuals’ due process rights to their data. However, that system of protection is…

Prichep, Deena. “Encore: Religion and Ai, What Does It Mean When the Word of God Comes from a Chatbot?” NPR, NPR, 19 July 2025, www.npr.org/2025/07/19/nx-s1-5468637-e1/encore-religion-and-ai-what-does-it-mean-when-the-word-of-god-comes-from-a-chatbot. This is transcript discusses the ways that clergy have used AI to help write sermons, and the human implications of such use. Like any job, those who serve in churches…

Tan, Eli. “Meta Raises Its Spending Forecast on A.I. to Above $70 Billion”. The New York Times. 29 October 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/technology/meta-spending-ai.html Meta announced it raised its capital expenditure forecast for the year from an estimated $66 to $72 billion to a new estimate of $70 to $72 billion. Meta states most of this spending will…

“From Story Time to Stress Relief: How AI Is Reshaping Modern Parenting.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 21 July 2025, abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/ai-parenting/story?id=123843563. This article discusses the ways that parents are using AI to ease the load of parenting. By using AI to help make decisions and organize their days, they are able to take some of…

Murphy, Ryan. “Dodgers vs Blue Jays AI Predictions: ChatGPT Picks the Winner of the 2025 World Series.” Yahoo Sports, 24 Oct. 2025, sports.yahoo.com/article/dodgers-vs-blue-jays-ai-133200857.html. With the World Series now in affect, Gambling will increase a little to bet on which team will win. Between the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Generative AI chatbot’s will…

Roose, Kevin, et al. “A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education.” The New York Times, 5 Sept. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfork-education-alpha-school.html. There’s no secret AI is going to change education forever, but the biggest question is how will it change and could it benefit teachers too not just students. Those in education still…

Manoush Zomorodi. “How Companies Use AI to Choose Who Gets Hired and Fired.” NPR, 3 Oct. 2025, www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/g-s1-91510/how-companies-use-ai-to-choose-who-gets-hired-and-fired. Companies are using AI devices to see what resumes stand out more than others. As companies are trying to figure out by putting in AI very few tools that will make candidates stand out more than others.…

Lin, Yang, and Taorui Guan. “From Safe Harbours to Ai Harbours: Reimagining DMCA Immunity for the Generative Ai Era.” Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Oxford Academic, 4 Aug. 2025, academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/20/9/605/8221820. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025. This article addresses many of the same issues we’ve discussed this week already on the complications that are being…

Hart and Welle. “‘Grokipedia’ is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk”. The Verge, 29 October 2025. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison Elon Musk and xAI have debuted a new online encyclopedia meant to be less biased or “woke” than Wikipedia. In addition to containing pages cloned straight from Wikipedia, Grokipedia hosts far-right conspiracy theories, misinformation, with overtly racist and…

Jackson, Hooroo. “The Heaviest Machine”. Post-Scarcity Cinema: Essays on AI Film Theory, 13 July 2025. https://hooroojackson.com/the-heaviest-machine/ For anyone wondering what the film buffs are getting up to with AI, look no further than Hooroo Jackson. I must acknowledge my personal disagreement with Jackson about almost every opinion he holds about film and apologize if that…