The Full SLAAIT

As SLAAIT has wound down just a bit, there's not too much SLAAIT-related news. Here's a selection of some recent AI news pieces that may be of interest.

Reuters reports that on his first day of office, President Trump rescinded President Biden's fall 2023 executive order that sought to mitigate risks of AI to national security by requiring the disclosure of safety test results.

This morning, President Trump announced up to half a trillion dollars in private sector funding of AI infrastructure. Oracle, Softbank, and Oracle have been announced as part of the joint venture, according to this piece by CBS News.

On the same day, the Associated Press reported that many technology executives were present at the inauguration ceremony. These tech executives and their companies invest in many artificial intelligence companies, including Anthropic, Meta's Llama, Apple Intelligence, xAI and Grok, and Google's Gemini. Additionally, TikTok's CEO was in attendance. Perplexity AI is reportedly in talks to merge with ByteDance, which owns TikTok.

Margaret Heller of DePaul University Library authored a framework for using generative AI in libraries, published in Information Today. In this piece, Ms. Heller also links to the Library of Congress' AI Planning Framework. Both of these pieces may be helpful for librarians who are looking to implement a standardized approach or policy/procedures for using AI within their libraries.

Dianne Connery is leading a two-part workshop for Gigabit Libraries Network on using AI for grant writing. Demand is evidently high, and there is currently a waitlist. If you sign up for the waitlist, you'll be signed up for the upcoming February sessions. Sign up here.

Want to responsibly cite content created by generative AI? Here's some different options for you. For academic papers, be sure to check with your specific style guide, but this is a good start.

Purdue University has this guide.

Medium proposes these unofficial citation formats.

Grammarly suggests these formats.

MLA style guide recommends this format.

APA's blog recommend this.

Goldman Sachs rolled out AI assistants for its employees. This comes after JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley have already implemented AI for their employees.

According to NBC News, a new film starring Adrien Brody is coming under fire for its use of AI to enhance characters' accents, and creation of buildings and architectural drawings seen at the end of the film.

USA Today reports that AI will be used in judging for the upcoming X games.