This essay first appeared in the June 2025 issue of Choice (volume 62 | issue 10).
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become essential for healthcare, finance, education, information technology, and almost every other industry. As AI continues to shape human interaction and decision-making due to its advantages, ethical, security, and privacy concerns demand scrutiny. This essay examines seminal and other works that have defined discussions about AI by evaluating their contributions to the body of knowledge and analyzing how they interconnect. Rather than merely listing key texts, this essay critically assesses their impact, evolution, common threads, and differences to make sense of the astronomical growth of AI.
Gundars (Gundy) Kaupins is a Professor of Management at Boise State University. He has a Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from the University of Iowa and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Society for Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)