Navigating AI can be overwhelming. Media reporting on AI is often dramatized and incorrect. Even respectable publications can misrepresent the power or promise of AI.

This guide is meant to provide an introduction to the current AI tools that are relevant for use in educational settings, and to demystify some of the hype surrounding AI. It will help you consider whether you might integrate AI into your teaching, and how to do so responsibly.

Don’t underestimate your capacity to understand AI concepts and bring value to these conversations. Now more than ever, the world needs insights from those in the humanities and the arts. You don’t need to know everything about AI to consider how AI tools might be thought-provoking, beneficial, or detrimental in your classroom.

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.

Conduct a DuPont analysis of Coca-Cola using real-world data, comparing and contrasting your results with an analysis conducted by Microsoft’s chatbot Copilot.

By conducting an interview, students can develop research, speaking, and active listening skills. This assignment helps them prepare by rehearsing with a chatbot.

Rehearse telephone triage calls with an AI chatbot to practice clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and effectively address patient needs.

Explore the problems and possibilities posed by synthetic images created with generative artificial intelligence, focusing specifically on the relationship between photography and reality.