Coming Together to Practice AI Skepticism
The Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts invites faculty and staff to come together to practice AI skepticism. This session offers participants two things: (1) a set of activities—digital and analog—that dismantle AI’s mystique and help reveal its operations clearly and tactilely, and (2) several frameworks for facilitating ethical discussions about AI, drawing on recent critical scholarship that has gotten lost in the hype. No matter if you use ChatGPT regularly or avoid it entirely, this session invites you to share conversation about the conundrum that is AI, reflecting on larger questions about how technology can be reimagined to support collective planetary flourishing. For this session, please read this short essay by Dan McQuillan and bring a pencil, paper, and your favorite book for a brief activity.
This workshop will be led by Assistant Professor Ryan Eichberger, who teaches rhetoric and digital studies in the English Department.
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