ChatGPT recently sparked a major public reevaluation of the role that AI will play in our work and school lives. As the latest generation of LLM-based AI, ChatGPT represents arguably the first version of freely available AI to be able to reliably generate sophisticated responses to user queries that meet or exceed the quality of text that might be generated by typical human users asked to respond to the same prompt. Moreover, the platform grew to 1 million users in 5 days, so there has been rapid uptake of the tech.
A wide range of new uses for AI opened up overnight. These uses promise to radically alter humans' relationship with AI in the workplace and at school, from killing the standard
five-paragraph-essay as a homework assignment to automating basic business functions like customer communications and the creation of boilerplate legal documents. Many new ethical challenges have emerged with these new applications of AI, from students cheating on writing assignments to businesses misplacing confidence in the veridicality of AI-generated results to the detriment of customers, employees, or other stakeholders.
The purpose of this workshop is to give workshop participants a hands-on orientation to the ChatGPT tech and principled frameworks for deciding on ethical and unethical uses of it. This event will take place on February 10, 2023 from 12:00 to 3:00 pm in the Commons Area of the Idea Forge in the Fleming Building, 2445 Kittredge Loop Dr. Lunch will be provided. ****Please note the workshop is full, so if you sign up, you may be placed on the waiting list.
