By: Jessica Nelson
The University of Alabama Ethics Bowl faculty adviser and a scholar of privacy rights may seem like unlikely advocates for the use of generative AI in the classroom.
Dr. Lawrence Cappello, an associate professor in the Department of History, and Dr. Katherine Chiou, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, co-founded the AI Teaching Enhancement Initiative (AITEI) at the University of Alabama in 2023. When they began discussing what generative AI meant for the profession, they focused first on defending against unethical AI use.
“We came to AI with a skeptical point of view,” Cappello said. “We are not AI evangelists.”
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