Kristi Holmes

A water tower in Minooka is visible next to a residential subdivision on March 19, 2025, near the site of a proposed data center by the company Equinix. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Mohammad Hosseini and Kristi Holmes: After 3 years of ChatGPT, it’s clear Illinois needs more AI safeguards

December 1, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

There is a lack of federal AI regulation to build more safeguards, so states such as Illinois must pass their own bills.

Visitors look at the generative artificial intelligence self-computing base of H3C at the second Global Digital Trade Fair in Hangzhou, China, on Nov. 23, 2023. (Costfoto/NurPhoto)

Mohammad Hosseini and Kristi Holmes: How steep are AI’s social and environmental costs?

October 14, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The development and deployment of generative artificial intelligence models come with enormous social and environmental impacts.

OpenAI's website is seen on a computer in New York on July 10, 2023.

Mohammad Hosseini and Kristi Holmes: AI tools benefit developers and can be a liability for the rest of us

September 17, 2024 at 2:42 p.m.

A year ago this month, OpenAI released ChatGPT — a free generative artificial intelligence chatbot that creates text in response to user prompts. With its launch, millions of people started...

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