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Hosted by Dean Rakesh Khurana
The emergence of generative A.I. has the potential to change how we learn, how we teach, and how we work. How can we design our courses to help students learn about and be prepared to engage with a future that includes A.I., without compromising our core mission of helping them to develop an independent mind and original voice, the ability to reason, and intellectual humility? A panel of experts including Latanya Sweeney, David Malan and Eric Beerbohm will help us grapple with questions that are fundamental to the future of higher education.
Among the questions we'll pose to our panelists:
- This is not the first time that new technology has been predicted to dramatically change society; what can we learn from prior examples of technological disruptions?
- What does it mean to teach and learn responsibly and ethically in an era of generative A.I.?
- Given that A.I. can now write a paper or provide advice about how to code, how might faculty (and students) reconsider what is truly important to learn?
- What (still) makes a Harvard College education unique in an age of rapid technological upheaval—one that purports to produce a significant leveling effect in the domain of elite knowledge production?
For more information about the Bok Center's programming and support for instructors reckoning with artificial intelligence, visit our Canvas module on Generative Artificial Intelligence.