CO-SPONSORSHIP: Class, Labor, and Religion Unit and Teaching Religion Unit

The FUTURE of Teaching and Learning: Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
We invite proposals for a possible co-sponsored session. We hope to facilitate discussions that:

• Analyze and/or demonstrate innovative teaching methods/styles using various A.I.-answer engines – per past experience or future teaching plans.
• Evaluate any obstacles that arise when A.I. enters the religious studies classroom. Potential concerns include plagiarism convenience, threats to academic integrity, “hallucination,” inaccuracy, and bias deficiencies, “homogenized” thought, and compromises to student attention and effort.
• Address the future of academic labor as related to AI: how our work as educators is being affected by both changes to the university and AI. How does the growing movement towards teaching, grading, and writing using AI tools affect our work? How might it further implicate us and our students in unjust labor and environmental impact?