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Cornell expands AI literacy program as academic peer review faces overload

Cornell University is expanding its AI Critical Literacy Program to include all incoming students, faculty, and staff, following a successful pilot. The program, delivered via the Canvas platform, will cover generative AI fundamentals, ethical considerations, its impact on learning, and personal policy creation. Meanwhile, the academic world faces challenges with peer review due to an exponential increase in published papers, leading to researchers struggling to dedicate the necessary time to review. AI

IMPACT Educational institutions are integrating AI literacy, while the academic publishing system grapples with the volume of AI-generated research.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses an educational program expansion and a commentary on the challenges facing academic peer review, neither of which are frontier releases, significant industry moves, or research papers.

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Cornell expands AI literacy program as academic peer review faces overload

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    Cornell Chronicle: Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students. “After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Lit

    Cornell Chronicle: Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students. “After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members…

  2. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Ars Technica: Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?. “The number of papers indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science, for example, h

    Ars Technica: Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?. “The number of papers indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science, for example, has recently been increasing exponentially, at a rate of 5.6 percent per year. By one estimate, researchers around the gl…