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Spotlight on AI – with Samantha Stevens
January 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
| Location: | Online (Zoom) |
| Cost: | Free |
The “Spotlight on AI” series features speakers from across Carleton’s teaching community talking about the innovative ways that they are responding the challenges posed by AI. These faculty-led sessions are meant to be informal spaces where colleagues can share and discuss ideas with each other.
While text-generative AI is criticized as being racist and anti-Indigenous, it proves to be a useful tool to teach students about settler colonial discourses and biases found in online texts. In this “Spotlight on AI” session, Samantha Stevens (School of Canadian Studies) will show how a guided exercise allowed students to use ChatGPT to uncover how the output perpetuates pan-Indigenous narratives, misses details or presents wrong information, promotes the use of derogatory terms, and evades mentioning the complicity of settlers and settler governments/institutions in settler colonialism. This exercise not only enhanced the learning objectives, but also allowed students to critically engage with the knowledge they had learned and taught them that AI does not create reliable information on Indigenous peoples.
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