Critical AI Literacy in a Time of Chatbots: A Public Symposium for Educators, Writers, and Citizens

Friday, October 6th, 2023

9:30 am – 4:30 pm ET

Location: Virtual

Zoom Registration Link here

OPENING REMARKS

9:30am

Rebecca Walkowitz (Dean of Humanities/English) 

I: Critical AI Literacy: What is it and Why Do We Need it?

9:45 – 11:05 

Moderator: Maha Bali (Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo) Panelists: Matthew Stone (Computer Science, Rutgers), Antonio Hamilton (Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Lauren M.E. Goodlad (English/Critical AI, Rutgers)

BREAK 

11:05 – 11:10

II: Teaching Critical AI Literacy: Advice and Perspectives

11:10 – 1:00

Moderator: Anna Mills (MLA-CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI/English, Cañada College)

Panelists: Nicholas Provenzano (Technology Integrator and Makerspace Director at University Liggett School), Latrise P. Johnson (English, University of Alabama), Daniel Estrada (Humanities, New Jersey Institute of Tech)

BREAK 

1:00 – 1:10

KEYNOTE INTERVIEW w/ BRIAN MERCHANT, Tech Reporter, LA Times and author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech 

1:10 – 1:55

Moderator: Serap Firat (Visiting Research Scholar / UC Berkeley)

Interview with Brian Merchant (Tech Reporter, LA Times) conducted by 

Michael Szalay (English, University of California, Irvine) 

and Evie Shockley (English, Rutgers; author of suddenly we)  

KEYNOTE PANEL

2:00 – 3:20

Moderator: Jane Rosenzweig (Writing Program, Harvard)

Kathryn Conrad (English, University of Kansas)

Amba Kak (Executive Director, AI Now)

BREAK

3:20 – 3:30

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

3:30 – 4:30

Facilitators:

Sarah Burriss (Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University)