AI: What Students Want to Talk About

Every other week in CCA190: Creating With Generative AI: Shaping the Future, students completed an assignment called “Let’s Talk About,” where they determined the content of our course for the following class meeting. Between the Spring and Fall of 2024, 98 Miami University students participated in the course, resulting in 686 “Let’s Talk About” topics.

During this presentation, I’ll share themes from these responses, including concerns about academic integrity, an interest in AI sentience, money-making with AI, career concerns, ethical guardrails, and AI’s impact on entertainment. Participants will learn how students were just as concerned about AI as their instructors and how these students are also already dreaming of ways Generative AI can help us address wicked problems that affect our local and global societies. During our time together, participants will have an opportunity to ask questions, and we’ll take a few moments to follow our students’ lead by generating our own “Let’s Talk About” topics.