This course prepares students with the knowledge and critical frameworks necessary to understand the technical, social, and historical underpinnings of contemporary artificial intelligence. Through activities, discussions, and design projects, students will develop a critical AI literacy: the ability to interpret, question, and communicate about AI and its function and future in the designed world. Students will learn about common myths and misconceptions about AI and reflect upon how their understanding of AI shapes their adoption of it personally and professionally. Through project work, students will propose interventions that can develop critical AI literacy in broader society beyond the classroom. Topics include the history of artificial intelligence and how it rose to prominence, human perception and misperceptions of AI, social and environmental impacts of AI, and the origins of data and its implications for AI design.
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