Generative AI Open Discussion Forum
Tuesday, March 26 12:30pm-2:00pm
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The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 led to Generative AI dominating the national conversation. Let’s talk about how your teaching life has changed since. How are you seeing students use it? How are you using it in your classes and professional life? What other questions can and should we discuss together? This is a space for open conversation, sharing, and exploration. This is a space for faculty to discuss questions and experiences with student use of Generative AI. Open to all disciplines.
Facilitators: Lisa Blankenship, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and Katherine Tsan, Digital Pedagogy Specialist, CTL
AI and the Workforce of the Future
Monday, April 1 1:00pm-2:30pm
NVC, Room 14-230
A public talk delivered by special guest, Ryan Hittner. Hittner is a partner at Deloitte and Co-lead of the Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Assurance practice.
Speaker: Ryan Hittner, Partner, Deloitte, Co-lead of the Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Assurance practice
AI Literacy: Prompt Design with ChatGPT
Tuesday, Apr 9 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Dr. Lance Cummings, a leading voice around generative AI in technical writing, will share strategies for using ChatGPT with our own work as well as applications to the classroom. Dr. Cummings explores content and information design in technologically and culturally diverse contexts both in his research and teaching. His most recent work looks at how to leverage structured content with rhetorical strategies to improve the performance of generative AI technologies; he shares his explorations in his newsletter, Cyborgs Writing.
Speaker: Assistant Professor Dr. Lance Cummings, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Facilitator: Lisa Blankenship, Interim Director, CTL
Exploring Generative AI: Sharing Insights and Ideas
Wednesday, April 17 2:30pm-3:30pm
NVC, Room 14-70
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Do you use generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini? Let’s talk about it! This event is designed for faculty and staff members who are already comfortable with or have a basic understanding of generative AI tools. Whether you’re utilizing these tools in your personal projects or integrating them into your work, join us for an opportunity to network, share ideas, and explore the diverse applications of generative AI.
Facilitator: Robert Kunicki, Director of New Student & Family Programs
The Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lectures on Equality and Justice in America: Designing Ethical and Responsible AI for a More Just and Equitable Future
Thursday, May 2
Reception: 5:30pm-6:00pm
Lecture: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Information & Technology Building (Library Building), Atrium, Rackow Room and Lounge, Room 750
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To truly maximize the transformative power of AI and to ensure equitable access to its many game-changing benefits, we must innovate ethically and responsibly. Professor Renée Cummings will explore justice-oriented approaches to designing, developing and deploying AI. As Data Activist-in-Residence (UVA) and Co-Director of the AI Equity Lab at the Brookings Institution, she argues that we must embrace both a risk-based and a rights-based approach, shaped by a sophisticated understanding of equity and justice. And she argues for co-creating sustainable AI solutions in collaborative communities.
Speaker: Assistant Professor Renée Cummings, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
What We Learned About AI from Baruch Students: Initial Findings of the CTL’s AI Study
Tuesday, May 7 12:30pm-2:00pm
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Initial findings from an Institutional Review Board (IRB)-supported study this spring, on how students at Baruch are using generative AI in their classes, facilitated by six researchers at the CTL and five undergraduate CTL Student Research Fellows from across the college.
Facilitators/Speakers: CTL AI Study Team (Lisa Blankenship, Lukasz Chelminski, Seth Graves, Hamad Sindhi, Pamela Thielman, and Katherine Tsan) and CTL Student Fellows (Sharina Bello, Daniel Glavan, Adriana Lopez Tavares, Sruthi Manish, Lizzie Tskhovrebadze)
