Sultana Comments on Academic Publishers Partnering With AI Companies in Chronicle of Higher Ed Piece

August 3, 2024

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Farhana Sultana

Geography & the Environment Department

Environmental Conflict and Collaboration

South Asia Center

Autonomous Systems

Education

Labor

United States

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Farhana Sultana

Two major academic publishers, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, recently announced partnerships that will give tech companies access to academic content and other data in order to train artificial-intelligence models, a move some academics see as just the latest way their work is being exploited.

Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment, is concerned about how her work may be repurposed, and she set the news against the backdrop of unpaid academic labor.

“All this occurs while our intellectual property is woefully inadequately compensated, since there is abuse and profit off our mostly free intellectual labor by private corporations reaping profits in the billions of dollars annually from the sale of our books,” she says.

Read more in the Chronicle of Higher Education article, “Two Major Academic Publishers Signed Deals With AI Companies. Some Professors Are Outraged.”