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AI Resources for Faculty: Additional Resources

This guide is designed for faculty to use to understand and effectively use Artificial Intelligence in their courses.

Content

Use the above tabs to find various other articles, videos, and resources create by Canisius Faculty, Staff, and Students or from the Higher Education or Private Sector community at large. These resources often may not fit neatly into the previous sections or may be interesting for a small selection.

Articles & Guides

Peebles, A. L., & Snyder, M. N. (2024). Are you smarter than ChatGPT? Challenging our understanding of media literacy through generative AI. Communication Teacher, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2024.2414032

Videos

Podcasts

Groups, Social Media, and Blogs

*summaries are provided where possible

Articles & Guides

Brodsky, S. (2025, July 29). AI models are picking up hidden habits from each other | IBM [Blog]. IBM Think; IBM. https://www.ibm.com/think/news/ai-models-subliminal-learning

  • This article reports on and summarizes a study by Anthropic, UC Berkeley, and Truthful AI where AI models trained by other models may "...inherit traits from other models though seemingly unrelated [to the] training data" (Brodsky 2025, para. 2). Brodsky (2025) concludes with a stark warning from one of the researchers.

Cowen, T., & Balwit, A. (2025, May 12). How to survive artificial intelligence. The Freepress; The Freepress. https://www.thefp.com/p/ai-will-change-what-it-is-to-be-human 

IBM. (2025, May 2). The 2025 guide to ai agents | ibm. IBM. https://www.ibm.com/think/ai-agents

  • This Guide, presented by IBM, provides an overview of AI's and how to get the best results from AI usage.

The Reflexive Machine. (2025a, February 11). Thinking without writing: Can ai be an epistemic agent? https://substack.com/home/post/p-156965891

  • The author asks us to view AI's as a "Really fast research assistant", helping us to weed relevant articles, find patterns, and more. With this in mind, the author goes into detail about the pros and cons of this type of thinking.

The Reflexive Machine. (2025b, May 14). From Panic to Design: What Australia can learn from the latest AI‑cheating frenzy. https://substack.com/home/post/p-163525678

  • The author posits the idea that cheating with AI does not necessarily mean more proctoring and harsher rules. Instead, it means changing how we assess our students and the pedagogical pivot therein. The author also provides a quick timeline on how this pivot could work in a course.

The White House. (July 2025). Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf 

  • This document details a comprehensive strategy for the United States to achieve and maintain global technological dominance in artificial intelligence, deeming it a national security imperative. This objective is pursued through three core pResource Sharingars: accelerating AI innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security. (Original summary provided by Google NotebookLM on 07-25-2025; edited for clarity and brevity).

 

Videos

Alberta Tech. (2025, May 17). No one actually knows why AI Works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=1V4glWQq5s9xNpjP&v=nMwiQE8Nsjc&feature=youtu.be

  • A quick, ten-minute video on how AI's work and how we don't actually know why AI's work. Alberta Tech concludes why we should care how AI's work.

Slidebean. (2025, March 5). AI Has a Fatal Flaw—And Nobody Can Fix It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=c_Rm_WC2Dr9LhBJa&v=_IOh0S_L3C4&feature=youtu.be

  • Slidebean posits that we are beginning to reach the limit of how "smart" an AI can really be-- that AI is already levelling out. He also provides an in-depth introduction on how AI's thinks and why they are "so good" at constructing essays.

Podcasts

AI in Action Podcast, a podcast produced by IBM that hosts a wide variety of tech leaders on AI and how it is reshaping the business and technology sectors.

Groups, Social Media, & Blogs

AI in Education Google Group, a Google Group that provides a platform for those in Higher Education to ask questions, comment, and provide resources on AI happenings in Higher Education. **Must sign in with your Canisius Google account. There may be a waiting period as they manually approve your account. Additionally, the link above will send you to a bitly page and auto-redirect to the AI in Education Google Group.

The Cognitive Psychologist, a Substack Blog written by Dr. Brian Stone, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Boise State University.

Leon Furze Blog, a Blog created by Leon Furze, a consultant, author, and PhD candidate focused on how AI affects education.

IBM Think Newsletter, a blog created by IBM that focuses on technology in general.

Hugging Face Blog

OpenAI Blog

Google Gemini Blog