AI, the Future, and You
Explore AI’s potential impact on future careers through critical reflection, skill discovery, and strategic planning.
AI Theme Bias
Generative AI and Stasis Theory
Use Generative AI to update and enhance engagement with a classical rhetorical heuristic–the four questions of Stasis Theory–effective for developing an argument by locating the issue or dispute in a case.
What’s Your P(doom)?
Speculate on AI’s future by creatively expressing your own p(doom), or the probability that AI will harm or help humanity.
The Medium is (a big part of) the Message
Critically explore how the interface design choices and “personalities” of AI writing tools shape our experience of interacting with them.
Debating the Ethics of Generative AI
Facilitate a debate between students about the potential harms and benefits of using generative AI tools in the classroom.
AI Misinformation Campaign
Guide students to misuse AI for a misinformation campaign in order to expose AI’s shortcomings and threats while encouraging them to think critically about persuasion, appeals in composition, and credibility.
A Tale of Two Critiques
Compare and reflect on a primary source, a ChatGPT-generated critique of that source, and a human-generated critique. The goal is for students to build skill and confidence with critical reading.
Critical Analysis Across AI Tools & Stereotypes
An update of the "pre-digital" exercise in which students compare multiple accounts of a particular theory from different authors. With AI tools, students engage in similar critical analysis and debate while developing an understanding of what this software can (and cannot) do.
Correct a Bad Essay
Practice editing skills and learn about LLMs by generating a poorly written essay and then copy editing it with annotation and reasoning.
Many Sides of Many Coins
Use Large Language Models to investigate competing narratives in contemporary debates and explore how AI tools might come to shape journalism.