Research Seminar Talk -- Professor Liz Losh (William & Mary) Building a culture for generative AI literacy in college language, literature and writing
As large language models become fully integrated into everyday digital tools for authorship and research, it becomes increasingly unrealistic to issue blanket prohibitions against ever using generative AI in university coursework and peer-reviewed scholarship.
This talk addresses how to formulate potential learning outcomes for students, how to design effective professional training for instructors in the humanities who are facing an existential crisis when they can no longer easily use writing as an assessment tool for measuring their students' learning, and how to rethink programmes and curricula more capaciously to incorporate AI literacy as a fundamental competency that spans disciplines and career contexts.
Most importantly, this talk calls for ethical accountability from institutions of higher education that might be tempted to incorporate new platforms developed by educational technology companies uncritically or enter into partnerships with generative AI corporations that might betray the trust of scholarly communities.