Difficult Dialogue: How Should We Teach Artificial Intelligence in the Arts and Humanities?

Since the release of ChatGPT almost four years ago, AI has upended teaching on the nation’s campuses, forcing professors to redesign their assignments and develop creative ways to use of AI to enhance student learning. AI has hit the arts and humanities with particular force, raising questions about how we can and should embrace and/or resist this new technology in our classrooms. How can we best teach our core disciplinary skills and habits of mind when the tech sector is seeking to automate them? If AI can read, write, interpret, and create, what are the arts and humanities for? 

 This panel discussion - part of the CHA’s Difficult Dialogues series - will examine how various faculty in Arts and Humanities departments are creating innovative courses on critical approaches to AI within their disciplines. The conversation is meant for AI critics, AI agnostics, and AI enthusiasts. Our goal will be not just to complain about the disruptions caused by AI but also to center the central role that arts and humanities pedagogy can play in an AI world.