Subject Science & Technology Studies

AI, the Future, and You

Explore AI’s potential impact on future careers through critical reflection, skill discovery, and strategic planning.

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.

Demystifying AI Hype

Teach students to think critically about the rhetoric surrounding generative AI by interacting with the AI Hype Wall of Shame.

Illustrate a Hoax

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Explore the potential for AI image-generation tools (e.g., DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc.) to corroborate false narratives, or provide “evidence” that would be characterized as misinformation.

Critical Analysis Across AI Tools & Stereotypes

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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

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Practice editing skills and learn about LLMs by generating a poorly written essay and then copy editing it with annotation and reasoning.