#ailiteracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ailiteracy, aggregated by home.social.
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"“More and more, I was getting questions about, ‘How do I turn this [AI] stuff off? Why is it trying to write my emails for me? Why is it trying to summarize my one-sentence email that I can easily read?’” Cyrus said. “I just decided that with so much media hype out there about AI products, it would be a good opportunity to teach people about the basics of what is happening when you’re using this technology, and then getting into how to turn it off if you don’t want to use it.”
Usually, Cyrus’ classes like Intro to Computers get about a dozen attendees. But so many people expressed interest in her first Avoiding AI workshop that she had to cut off registration at 30 people, open a waitlist, and share the workshop on Zoom. Including the livestream, about 70 people attended each of Cyrus’ first two workshops.
When Bailey followed Cyrus’ lead to host a workshop in Philadelphia, the reception was similarly unprecedented. The library’s Instagram post about the “Avoiding AI” event got over 2,000 likes and 220 shares, whereas most of the library’s posts don’t get more than a few dozen likes. He scheduled a second program because the first got too many registrations."
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"“More and more, I was getting questions about, ‘How do I turn this [AI] stuff off? Why is it trying to write my emails for me? Why is it trying to summarize my one-sentence email that I can easily read?’” Cyrus said. “I just decided that with so much media hype out there about AI products, it would be a good opportunity to teach people about the basics of what is happening when you’re using this technology, and then getting into how to turn it off if you don’t want to use it.”
Usually, Cyrus’ classes like Intro to Computers get about a dozen attendees. But so many people expressed interest in her first Avoiding AI workshop that she had to cut off registration at 30 people, open a waitlist, and share the workshop on Zoom. Including the livestream, about 70 people attended each of Cyrus’ first two workshops.
When Bailey followed Cyrus’ lead to host a workshop in Philadelphia, the reception was similarly unprecedented. The library’s Instagram post about the “Avoiding AI” event got over 2,000 likes and 220 shares, whereas most of the library’s posts don’t get more than a few dozen likes. He scheduled a second program because the first got too many registrations."
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Meta's new Anthropic compute deal hints at a bigger strategy: rather than just bet on AI, hyperscalers are building data centers that will continue to pay off even if the AI bubble doesn't. My latest Substack https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/what-if-data-centers-arent-really
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Meta's new Anthropic compute deal hints at a bigger strategy: rather than just bet on AI, hyperscalers are building data centers that will continue to pay off even if the AI bubble doesn't. My latest Substack https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/what-if-data-centers-arent-really
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📢 Today and tomorrow, 21-22 July 2026, our Director of Curriculum, Dr Toby Hodges, is participating virtually at the Library of Congress AI Literacy + Learning for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) Summit. He will give a brief overview of current activities and suggestions for how summit participants can get involved in the AI Carpentry project. 🌟
The gathering, in Washington, DC and virtually, brings together leaders and stakeholders working at the intersection of responsible AI and libraries, archives and museums. The goal is to work toward developing resources that support the responsible implementation of AI across knowledge institutions that prioritise trust, authenticity, and the public good--building on and connecting to existing efforts. 👏
🗓️ Over the two days participants will:
• Day 1 — Share work and outcomes from AI literacy and learning initiatives across the sector.
• Day 2 — Engage in structured activities to develop shared resources and guides.After the event, the summit organisers will summarise the key outcomes and share the resources publicly.
#Carpentries #ResponsibleAI #AILiteracy #LAMs #Libraries #Archives #Museums
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📢 Today and tomorrow, 21-22 July 2026, our Director of Curriculum, Dr Toby Hodges, is participating virtually at the Library of Congress AI Literacy + Learning for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) Summit. He will give a brief overview of current activities and suggestions for how summit participants can get involved in the AI Carpentry project. 🌟
The gathering, in Washington, DC and virtually, brings together leaders and stakeholders working at the intersection of responsible AI and libraries, archives and museums. The goal is to work toward developing resources that support the responsible implementation of AI across knowledge institutions that prioritise trust, authenticity, and the public good--building on and connecting to existing efforts. 👏
🗓️ Over the two days participants will:
• Day 1 — Share work and outcomes from AI literacy and learning initiatives across the sector.
• Day 2 — Engage in structured activities to develop shared resources and guides.After the event, the summit organisers will summarise the key outcomes and share the resources publicly.
#Carpentries #ResponsibleAI #AILiteracy #LAMs #Libraries #Archives #Museums
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and is moderated among tasks not assumed to require distinctly human attributes. These findings suggest that companies may benefit from shifting their marketing efforts & product development toward consumers with lower #AIliteracy.
In addition, efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal
'Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222429251314491
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This lower literacy–greater receptivity link is not explained by differences in perceptions of AI's capability, ethicality, or feared impact on humanity. Instead, this link occurs because people with lower #AIliteracy are more likely to perceive AI as magical & experience feelings of awe in the face of AI's execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes. In line with this theorizing, the lower literacy–higher receptivity link is mediated by perceptions of AI as magical
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AI literacy is becoming essential in healthcare. Professionals need to understand what AI can do, its limitations, risks, and how to use it responsibly. It also supports digital autonomy: the ability to make informed choices about data, tools, platforms, and human oversight without becoming unnecessarily dependent on technology providers.
#AILiteracy #DigitalAutonomy #Healthcare #DigitalHealth #ResponsibleAI #AIinHealthcare #HealthProfessionsEducation -
AI literacy is becoming essential in healthcare. Professionals need to understand what AI can do, its limitations, risks, and how to use it responsibly. It also supports digital autonomy: the ability to make informed choices about data, tools, platforms, and human oversight without becoming unnecessarily dependent on technology providers.
#AILiteracy #DigitalAutonomy #Healthcare #DigitalHealth #ResponsibleAI #AIinHealthcare #HealthProfessionsEducation -
Librarians wondering how AI affects media literacy/acquisition policies/patrons' needs should consider joining UMaine's Digital Curation program, which tackles AI's impact on collecting institutions. I'm quoted in this related story from local NBC affiliate https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bangor/bangor-library-ai-misinformation-digital-literacy-maine/97-6c4da567-9582-4bf2-9e06-7c6aea679881
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Librarians wondering how AI affects media literacy/acquisition policies/patrons' needs should consider joining UMaine's Digital Curation program, which tackles AI's impact on collecting institutions. I'm quoted in this related story from local NBC affiliate https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bangor/bangor-library-ai-misinformation-digital-literacy-maine/97-6c4da567-9582-4bf2-9e06-7c6aea679881
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Uncovering Students’ Mental Models of Generative AI arxiv.org/abs/2607.11692
"Students largely understood GenAI at a surface level but demonstrate limited understanding of how it works & when and why it should or should not be used"
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Uncovering Students’ Mental Models of Generative Artificial Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11692
"Students largely understood GenAI primarily at a surface level - knowing its names, tools, and applications but demonstrate limited procedural understanding of how it works and limited conditional knowledge about when and why it should or should not be used"
Infographic summary:
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Uncovering Students’ Mental Models of Generative Artificial Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11692
"Students largely understood GenAI primarily at a surface level - knowing its names, tools, and applications but demonstrate limited procedural understanding of how it works and limited conditional knowledge about when and why it should or should not be used"
Infographic summary:
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Should AI chatbots simulate care for students? Alberta teachers say no
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Education #EdTech #Teachers #Students #Canada #Alberta #DigitalEthics #AIEthics #Privacy #ChildSafety #Technology #Schools #Chatbots #AITutors #AILiteracy
https://the-14.com/should-ai-chatbots-simulate-care-for-students-alberta-teachers-say-no/ -
Should AI chatbots simulate care for students? Alberta teachers say no
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Education #EdTech #Teachers #Students #Canada #Alberta #DigitalEthics #AIEthics #Privacy #ChildSafety #Technology #Schools #Chatbots #AITutors #AILiteracy
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From the Leanpub Blog: The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Russ Miles, Author of The Sovereign Engineer: AI Literacy for Software Professionals
https://leanpub.com/blog/the-leanpub-podcast-feat-russ-miles-author-of-the-sovereign-engineer/
#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #AILiteracy #LLMs #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #TDD #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #Leanpub
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From the Leanpub Blog: The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Russ Miles, Author of The Sovereign Engineer: AI Literacy for Software Professionals
https://leanpub.com/blog/the-leanpub-podcast-feat-russ-miles-author-of-the-sovereign-engineer/
#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #AILiteracy #LLMs #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #TDD #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #Leanpub
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NEW! The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Russ Miles, Author of The Sovereign Engineer: AI Literacy for Software Professionals
#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #AILiteracy #LLMs #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #TDD #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #Leanpub
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NEW! The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Russ Miles, Author of The Sovereign Engineer: AI Literacy for Software Professionals
#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #AILiteracy #LLMs #AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #TDD #EngineeringLeadership #SystemsThinking #Leanpub
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One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
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One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
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#Libraries and #AI in Public Life: A Recap from the Obama Presidential Center | DPLA
#ailiteracy is the new core competency for libraries.
Foster and protect human connection
Future is not predetermined
https://dp.la/news/libraries-and-ai-in-public-life-a-recap-from-the-obama-presidential-center -
#Libraries and #AI in Public Life: A Recap from the Obama Presidential Center | DPLA
#ailiteracy is the new core competency for libraries.
Foster and protect human connection
Future is not predetermined
https://dp.la/news/libraries-and-ai-in-public-life-a-recap-from-the-obama-presidential-center -
The second funding phase builds on these insights and focuses on "New Interactions with #AI".
Key topics include the multimodality of generative AI, emerging forms of #humanAIinteraction, and Critical #AILiteracy—that is, how people can use and evaluate AI competently, critically, and responsibly.We are excited for the road ahead! 🚀
#scicomm #sciencecommunication #genai
@volkswagenstiftung @unituebingen @KIT_Karlsruhe @wissenschaftimdialog @IWMtue @emgehoh @annetteless
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The second funding phase builds on these insights and focuses on "New Interactions with #AI".
Key topics include the multimodality of generative AI, emerging forms of #humanAIinteraction, and Critical #AILiteracy—that is, how people can use and evaluate AI competently, critically, and responsibly.We are excited for the road ahead! 🚀
#scicomm #sciencecommunication #genai
@volkswagenstiftung @unituebingen @KIT_Karlsruhe @wissenschaftimdialog @IWMtue @emgehoh @annetteless
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AI-Kompetenzen an Schulen: OECD-Rahmenwerk liegt vor:
Englisch:
https://ailiteracyframework.org/pdfs/framework_pdf/AILF_en.pdfDeutsch: https://ailiteracyframework.org/pdfs/framework_pdf/AILF_de.pdf
Edit: deutschsprachige Version hinzugefügt. Dank an @fusion
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The Arrival Nobody Voted For #AI #AiLiteracy #education #texas #EduSky
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin has launched ALIGN, an AI literacy initiative designed to help educators, districts, and communities move from AI conversations to practical, ethical implementation.
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The Arrival Nobody Voted For #AI #AiLiteracy #education #texas #EduSky
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at UT Austin has launched ALIGN, an AI literacy initiative designed to help educators, districts, and communities move from AI conversations to practical, ethical implementation.
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“Ethical reasoning is a human issue, not a bot issue.”
The MoralPLai project at TUM explores what happens when people start turning to AI chatbots for emotional support and moral guidance. Their research-based theatre piece “The Third Voice” and the new documentary “MoralPLai Revisited” use a courtroom drama to open up public reflection on trust, responsibility and the role of AI in decision-making.
Really worth a watch if you care about AI ethics, literacy and how these debates are brought into public, dialogical spaces like theatre.
More info + documentary here:
https://www.ieai.sot.tum.de/moralplai-revisited-the-documentary-now-available-online/
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“Ethical reasoning is a human issue, not a bot issue.”
The MoralPLai project at TUM explores what happens when people start turning to AI chatbots for emotional support and moral guidance. Their research-based theatre piece “The Third Voice” and the new documentary “MoralPLai Revisited” use a courtroom drama to open up public reflection on trust, responsibility and the role of AI in decision-making.
Really worth a watch if you care about AI ethics, literacy and how these debates are brought into public, dialogical spaces like theatre.
More info + documentary here:
https://www.ieai.sot.tum.de/moralplai-revisited-the-documentary-now-available-online/
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New on Society & AI: "The Emerging AI Divide in Higher Education."
Dr. Omkar Dastane (Monash University Malaysia) and Dr. Ria Sidhu (Bath Spa University, UK) argue the real divide isn't access to AI tools — most students already have that — but institutional readiness: policy, training, and culture that turn access into genuine capability. A quiet, urgent equity issue.
Open access:
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New on Society & AI: "The Emerging AI Divide in Higher Education."
Dr. Omkar Dastane (Monash University Malaysia) and Dr. Ria Sidhu (Bath Spa University, UK) argue the real divide isn't access to AI tools — most students already have that — but institutional readiness: policy, training, and culture that turn access into genuine capability. A quiet, urgent equity issue.
Open access:
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The OU Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy Skills
I found this a really helpful approach from the Open University. Firstly, identify the elements of critical digital literacy the institution wants staff and students to cultivate:
Then offer staff a practical list of the actions associated with each of the elements, such as those listed for AI ethics in the report:
- Use key criteria to evaluate AI tools (e.g. functionality, accessibility, privacy,
security, copyright). - Engage with ethical issues related to AI, such as bias, deepfakes, copyright
infringement, data security and privacy, with a focus on AI- based creativity. - Consciously take account of ethical issues by acting in a way that promotes responsible use of AI, e.g. asking for consent before using personal data,
refraining from spreading misinformation.
I think this is how you integrate programme development and staff development. The criteria can provide ILOs which can be incorporated into programme development (i.e. what does ’embedding critical AI literacy’ into teaching actually mean?) while also providing workable objectives for staff development.
#AIIntegration #AILiteracy #criticalAILiteracy #ILOs #openUniversity - Use key criteria to evaluate AI tools (e.g. functionality, accessibility, privacy,
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If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-arent-about-ai
#DataCenter #AIliteracy #AIethics #Google #Meta #Amazon #Meta
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If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-arent-about-ai
#DataCenter #AIliteracy #AIethics #Google #Meta #Amazon #Meta
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Italy moves on #AIAct implementation: the Council of Ministers gave preliminary approval to two draft decrees implementing Law 132/2025 — governance, policing, liability, AI literacy.
My analysis: the parameters to watch, from Art. 70 and 74(8) on authorities and the DPA's role, to training as the condition for the effectiveness of the whole framework.
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Italy moves on #AIAct implementation: the Council of Ministers gave preliminary approval to two draft decrees implementing Law 132/2025 — governance, policing, liability, AI literacy.
My analysis: the parameters to watch, from Art. 70 and 74(8) on authorities and the DPA's role, to training as the condition for the effectiveness of the whole framework.
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🚀 Heute startet die Bewerbungsphase für die #CivicCoding-Projektberatung.
☝️ Wir bieten euch wieder bis zu 45 Stunden 1-zu-1-Beratung in den Themenbereichen #KI, #Daten & #Dateninfrastrukturen, #Strategie & #Organisation sowie #AILiteracy & #Governance an.
🤝 Bewerben können sich zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen mit KI- und Gemeinwohlbezug. #KMU und #Startups sind willkommen, wenn sie ihr Vorhaben gemeinsam mit einer zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisation oder einer #Kommune umsetzen.
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🚀 Heute startet die Bewerbungsphase für die #CivicCoding-Projektberatung.
☝️ Wir bieten euch wieder bis zu 45 Stunden 1-zu-1-Beratung in den Themenbereichen #KI, #Daten & #Dateninfrastrukturen, #Strategie & #Organisation sowie #AILiteracy & #Governance an.
🤝 Bewerben können sich zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen mit KI- und Gemeinwohlbezug. #KMU und #Startups sind willkommen, wenn sie ihr Vorhaben gemeinsam mit einer zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisation oder einer #Kommune umsetzen.
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What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?
Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.https://islandinthenet.com/what-happens-when-the-machine-has-never-heard-of-you/
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What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?
Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.https://islandinthenet.com/what-happens-when-the-machine-has-never-heard-of-you/
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📣 Partner with us to teach teens critical AI skills in Europe! Host events, get €3K–3.5K, free resources & support. Deadline: 19 June. Apply: https://tacticaltech.org/news/open-calls/supercharged-human-open-call/ #AILiteracy
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The ethical reasoning of students about AI is an untapped resource
I thought this was an incredibly thought-provoking framing in WonkHe’s recent report concerning how students are already deliberating about AI in complex and sophisticated way. The incoherence of the sector response to these challenges has forced students to deliberate about them in ways which are often complex and sophisticated:
But many students have gone further than working through confusing policy. They are constructing sophisticated ethical frameworks of their own – often more considered than anything their institution has produced. A computer science student described his governing principle: “I make sure my use of AI doesn’t inhibit my understanding of the topic. For essay submissions, the final text is written by myself – I don’t want to lose the ability to report on my findings.” An engineering student had arrived at a principle of “augmentation, not replacement” – using AI for repetitive tasks while retaining responsibility for core logic and final validation. A graphic design student drew a line that was philosophically precise: “Using AI to do a final work for me, I say no, but to help me make a final work as a tutor or a supporter or a friend, I will say yes.”
These are not students waiting for better policy. They have outrun it. But they are doing this intellectual and moral work largely in isolation – and often in silence. One engineering student said she hadn’t heard others discuss their AI use “as it might look like cheating or like they do not understand the assignment.” The furtiveness is itself a cost. Universities have an untapped resource in students’ own ethical reasoning – and creating structured opportunities for that reasoning to be surfaced and shared would do more than another round of policy revision.We urgently need to create a forums in which that reasoning can shared and elaborated upon. In fact I think this needs to be at the heart of any adequate institutional strategy. If we don’t account for the complexity of these existing students culture of AI use then policy and practice will be at a remove from the real needs and interests of students.
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Helping students out of AI-spirals
There are two ideas in this pre-print by Favero et al which I find very powerful. They concern how student use of AI might develop over time, suggesting spirals in which students might find themselves trapped in ways that could be immensely costly for them. The first relates to self-efficacy and self-esteem:
Students with low academic self-efficacy or self-esteem are more likely to rely on AI to compensate for what they see as their own shortcomings [5, 12, 16]. This reliance can create a harmful cycle: the more students use AI to avoid academic challenges, the less confident they become in their own abilities. This loss of confidence reduces their willingness to take initiative, which in turn increases dependence on AI and further weakens self-belief [15, 37]. Such students also tend to feel more stress and face unrealistic academic expectations, which pushes them even more toward the use of AI. As a result, their ability to think critically, be creative, and learn independently may decline over time [16].
When students see AI as faster and more capable than themselves, they may begin to undervalue their own efforts and knowledge. One student said, “I will never be better than AI” [5], illustrating how AI can unintentionally lower the students’ motivation and belief in their potential, leading to the Impostor Syndrome [37]. Students who have a better understanding of how AI systems work, including what they can and cannot do, show higher levels of academic self-efficacy [33]. Thus, demystifying AI will contribute to support the students’ trust in their own abilities.
The second relates to ‘AI guilt’ and cognitive dissonance:
Relying on AI for academic work can lead to AI guilt: feelings of shame, anxiety, and moral discomfort tied to the use of AI tools [37]. Students express sentiments like: “I feel like I am not being truthful when I use it,” and describe feeling “lazy” or afraid of being judged by peers and instructors [37]. These emotions affect not only their well-being but also their sense of identity, self-worth and personal agency. Such feelings often lead to cognitive dissonance, i.e., the psychological discomfort that occurs when actions conflict with deeply held beliefs [38]. Cognitive dissonance helps explain the tension students feel when they value originality and personal effort, yet use AI tools that may undermine these ideals. For instance, a student may feel proud of an AI-assisted essay but also guilty that it does not reflect their own independent thinking [37]. This internal conflict can be intense. When students believe that genuine academic work should come from human creativity and effort, using AI challenges their core values. The result is often stress, anxiety, and a weakened sense of authenticity in their learning journey [5].
These suggest to me a deeper way in which we might think about critical AI literacy. It’s not just passing technical knowledge onto students, or building critical evaluative capacity on top of that technical knowledge, it’s helping them regulate their use of AI over time. In other words helping them live and work well with AI, or without it, through an awareness of how that iterative action can prove to be corrosive and even destructive.
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Föderierter Datenpool goes @DataWeekLeipzig - Denn: Für die #DigitaleTransformation und einen strategischen Einsatz von Daten und KI für den Sozialstaat braucht es eine enge Zusammenarbeit von #Verwaltung und #Zivilgesellschaft.
Gemeinsam haben heute Fachkräfte aus allen Bereichen der Sozialen Arbeit auf kommunaler Ebene diskutiert, wie KI im Arbeitsalltag gewinnbringend einzusetzen ist.🪴Was es dafür braucht: Grundverständnis von KI (Stichwort #AILiteracy), #Datenverfügbarkeit und die passenden #Prozesse sind die Voraussetzungen für das Gelingen, genau wie große #Visionen und Ideen für klare #Anwendungsfälle.
💓Danke an Hannes Meinhardt von Social Impact gGmbH für die Einladung und die tolle Workshopkonzenption!