What do Pitt students think about AI? How are they using it--and how are they refusing it? What are they seeing in their classes, and what kinds of support do they want as they navigate the new and ever-changing landscape of AI? This event reports on student focus groups across the Oakland, Bradford, Johnstown, and Greensburg campuses where faculty asked about uses, approaches, and attitudes towards generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT.

Come to the event to hear what we learned, plus hear from undergraduate writing tutors and faculty integrating AI into their classes. Refreshments will be served. The event will be held in person at the O'Hara Student Center Dining Room as well as livestreamed. Registration required for the Zoom livestream.

Sponsored by the Office of the CIO, Pitt Cyber, and the Department of English at Pitt-Oakland

Schedule

1 p.m. - Doors open and refreshments

1:15-1:30 p.m. - Opening remarks by Joseph Yun, Director of Artificial Intelligence Enablement at Pitt

1:30-1:45 p.m. - Short remarks from Undergraduate Writing Tutors 

1:45-3 p.m. - GenAI Conversations Panel Discussion (including faculty from Pitt-Oakland, Bradford, Johnstown and Greensburg**)

3-3:15 p.m. - Short break

3:15-4 p.m. - Lightning talks by teachers responding to AI in their classes, plus Q&A [Including talks by Clark Chilson (Religious Studies), Jialei Jiang (English), Kevin Smith (Film and Media Studies), Svitlana Maksymenko (Economics), Kristen Butela (Biological Sciences)]

4-4:30 p.m. Wrap-up, Q&A, Future directions 

*The GenAI Conversations faculty team includes: Annette Vee, Patrick Manning, Elise Silva, Jialei Jiang, Gayle Rogers, Jeff Aziz, Jess FitzPatrick (Oakland); Catherine Kula, Birney Young (Bradford); Jessica Ghilani, Sean DiLeonardi (Greensburg); Mark DiMauro, Patty Michael (Johnstown).