Gaining a critical perspective on AI use during engineering processes
Work done by Julian Gay, Josiah Harrison, and Dr. Chris Dancy as a part of THiCC Lab Funds towards this work were provided by the National Science Foundation through a grant to Chris Dancy
Welcome to this opportunity to learn how to read and write AI!
We have several goals we wish for you to realize during your experience utilizing this learning artifact.
- We’ve created a set of learning resources so you may understand generative AI systems with a sociotechnical perspective. Furthermore, we want you to understand the material consequences of using, deploying, and integrating these systems.
- We want to give you, presumably, a fleeting engineer, the initial tools to understand the ways these systems work and how we might critically consider the ways to use these systems in the work you do. This should hopefully encourage many students to learn to tinker as a part of critically understanding and pushing these systems.
- We’ve created pathways that allow you to envision and reimagine a world with these systems in it, whether that be proactive use or understanding how to defend against their use in irresponsible ways, with allowances for you to consider what these systems and their engineering practice mean for your communities and contexts.
In the end, we hope to equip engineers with the tools to be critical of these systems (which may include using them!) such that they have the foundations to become both the [mechanic and the luddite].
Ok, let’s get to setting up our model and running things! Navigate to Foundation to begin!
