Senior Professorial Lecturer American University, United States
This talk will showcase an artificial intelligence (AI) literacy initiative embedded in iGen Reboot, a Complex Problems seminar on digital citizenship for first-year students. In this model, student teams design and host Black Mirror-themed campus events that demystify AI through collaborative dialogue. After analyzing a single episode and synthesizing related course texts on AI topics, students invite peers and faculty to a public discussion. Each team recruits guest professors from fields such as philosophy, neuroscience, or business to unpack the realities behind the fiction and educate fellow students. These two-hour events foster critical inquiry, interdisciplinary thinking, and cocurricular engagement around AI’s social and ethical implications. This session will provide a blueprint for replicating this approach to strengthen AI literacy and student agency across disciplines and campuses.
