Digital Competency in the Age of AI

AI tools such as ChatGPT are already transforming education and the public sphere. How should we engage with such technology to improve student learning outcomes and our society? As it stands, such AI tools are treated as expert, even though they are not expert in any field and are vulnerable to abuse, falsehoods and adversarial attacks. The lack of effective oversight and accountability for this technology exacerbates these problems. This course provides the basic digital competency on how state-of-the-art AI tools work (no prior knowledge necessary) and how we should prepare students to engage with them.