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Critical AI Literacy Interest Group
Public Interest Group associated with the GC TLC Critical AI Literacy Institute
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Keith A. Markus replied to the topic BMCC/CUNY GenAI Education Paper Cited in MDPI Smart Cities ArticleVasiliy,
I don’t think that we should try to reach consensus in this forum but I have a rather different view. Perhaps it would he helpful to explain a little further. We were speaking loosely, so to be clear when I referred to AI, I meant generative AI. Perhaps you were speaking more broadly.As philosopher David Lewis once wrote, calling…[Read more]
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Vasiliy Znamenskiy replied to the topic BMCC/CUNY GenAI Education Paper Cited in MDPI Smart Cities ArticleTesting how a task was completed, judging whether it was completed correctly, and actually performing the task are not the same thing.
Artificial intelligence will do some things on its own. Without that, it would not really be intelligence. How we should interact with it, what we can trust it with and what we cannot, will be shown by practice…[Read more]
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Keith A. Markus replied to the topic BMCC/CUNY GenAI Education Paper Cited in MDPI Smart Cities Article
Vasiliy,
I did an informal poll of my students asking what they wanted their program of study to provide them regarding AI, and the ability to critically evaluate AI output was one of the top things that they reported wanting. This fining could probably be replicated more formally.My main focus in my courses is on the idea that if students want…[Read more]
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Vasiliy Znamenskiy started the topic BMCC/CUNY GenAI Education Paper Cited in MDPI Smart Cities Article
Dear colleagues,
I wanted to share a small but meaningful update related to generative AI in education.
Our paper, “Integrating Universal Generative AI Platforms in Educational Labs to Foster Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy,” has been cited in a new MDPI Smart Cities article on multimodal generative AI for construction-site management and…[Read more]
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Holly Davenport replied to the topic Graduate Center AI GuidelinesThanks, Gina!
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Holly Davenport
Interim Director, Office of Digital Learning
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
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From: Gina Rae Foster (Critical AI Literacy Interest Group) <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 29, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Gina Rae Foster replied to the topic Graduate Center AI GuidelinesThanks, Luke! Great to see and very helpful.
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Luke Waltzer started the topic Graduate Center AI GuidelinesHi All,
I’m pleased to share AI Guidelines for the Graduate Center, published this week. I think you’ll see that they reflect the work of the Critical AI Literacy Institute, and critical conversations about GenAI that are happening in many spaces across…[Read more]
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Vasiliy Znamenskiy started the topic Teaching AI-Ready Computational Science with NAIRR Resource
Znamenskiy, Vasiliy. “Teaching AI-Ready Computational Science with NAIRR Resources: A ‘Computer Methods in Science’ Course”. Presented at the 2026 NAIRR Annual Meeting (NAIRR2026), Arlington, VA, USA, March 11, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19193456.
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Casandra Silva Sibilin started the topic Call for Chapter Proposals: Diverse Perspectives on AI in EducationSharing this invitation for CUNY community members from Brittany Collins and Marleen Brunch.
They are inviting chapter proposals for their next book, The Both/And: Diverse and Diverging Perspectives on AI in Education. The anthology is under consideration with Routledge and is focused on the middle and high school level; however, within that, they…[Read more] -
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Alexandra Juhasz started the topic Building a Relational Language Model: Human Edition WorkshopsDear CUNY Community,
You are cordially invited to Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah’s Building a Relational Language Model: Human Edition — a feminist and critical AI workshop series for CUNY students, faculty, and staff, made possible with funding from the CUNY AI Innovation Initiative.
Hosted by Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Fil…[Read more] -
Shane Snipes replied to the topic Four Upcoming Events on AII’ll be presenting on – “From Rollout to Redesign: An Economist’s Framework for AI Workforce Integration.”
The premise is simple and uncomfortable: most enterprise AI investments are failing — not because the technology is insufficient, but because the organizational design is broken.
I’ll be introducing three proprietary frameworks I’ve d…[Read more]
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Shane Snipes replied to the topic Four Upcoming Events on AI
Excited to be at the conference with you and Deborah Hazzard-Robinson, DBA, MBA, CDE ®, PASC. Our panel discussion will rewire how people think about applied AI day to day. Thank you for being a great colleague and mentor!
https://cberuk.com/conference_details&id=7073
ICBED-2026 runs April 20–21 at the Marriott New York JFK. Day 1 hybrid (i…[Read more]
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Luke Waltzer started the topic Four Upcoming Events on AI
Hi, All,
Sharing four upcoming events on AI that may be of interest.
April 17-18: Transitions & Transactions Conference at BMCC
April 21, 6:00-8:00pm: Conversation and Panel Discussion on “Digital Colonialism,” hosted by the Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center
April 23, 6:30-8:00pm: On Intelligence: Anicka Yi and Kate Crawford in…[Read more]
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Casandra Silva Sibilin started the topic Call for Faculty Leads: Integrating Gen AI into High-Enrollment Gen Ed Courses
This call is part of a pilot coordinated by the Office of University Dean for Tech and Computing, Aankit Patel, and developed with and funded by the NY Jobs CEO Council. The goal is to provide one faculty lead at up to 10 CUNY campuses to redesign a high-enrollment gen ed course to integrate gen AI instruction without changing the course learning…[Read more]
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