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As the technology continues to grow rapidly, a collaboration between the Campus AI Steering Committee, which consists of faculty, staff, and students; Information Technology Services (ITS); the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), and the Center for Digital Innovation in Learning (CDIL), invites faculty and staff to shape the future of generative artificial intelligence at 羞羞影院. The goal is a community-oriented approach with different kinds of programs that meet faculty where they are, said Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo.

鈥淓veryone has different levels of knowledge and comfort with AI. Everyone, regardless of whether they consider themselves a novice, expert, advocate, or opponent, can be involved with discussions on how to best use AI.鈥�

Among participants was Morrissey College Professor of the Practice Can Erbil, who was interested in creating an AI assistant for his large introductory course, Principles of Economics.

Erbil has been experimenting with an AI oral-assessment platform called that allows instructors to create a course-specific AI interviewer trained on their own materials. The AI tool can then conduct short, conversational interviews with students about course concepts, asking follow-up questions and probing their reasoning.

What surprised Erbil most in building the AI assistant was how much design thinking happens before anything technical.听

鈥淚 expected the hardest part to be the technical side, but instead I found myself spending the most time thinking carefully about the role of the chatbot. In other words, it鈥檚 less about coding and more about shaping behavior with words," Erbil said.

鈥淐ompared to simply reading about AI assistants, the Test Kitchen was especially helpful. The hands-on loop of testing student-style questions, capturing misses, and tightening prompts, was far more instructive.鈥�

Another participant, Social Work Assistant Professor of the Practice Carolyn Romano, came to the Test Kitchen interested in an AI assistant that could offer meaningful support in her Solution-Focused Therapy course, which is based in simulation techniques, like role-playing, to help social work students practice leading interventions.

While Romano has considered companies that offer simulation training before, most are cost prohibitive. 羞羞影院鈥檚 AI Test Kitchen presented an in-house opportunity to design a simulation completely within parameters and with prompts that Romano got to set herself, all as part of the Google Gemini system, which 羞羞影院 offers to all faculty and staff.

Through the Test Kitchen, Romano started building an AI assistant that acts like a mentor and role-playing partner for her students. Students, role-playing as听 therapists, first answer some questions about their experience with solutions-based therapy. Then, they ask the AI assistant questions like, 鈥淲hat brings you in today?鈥� ultimately working toward the "Miracle Question"鈥攁 solution-focused therapy technique. And like any roleplaying partner, the AI assistant is even trained to stop the simulation if the student misses something, such as not validating the client.

鈥淚t was more didactic than I thought,鈥� said Romano, describing the AI assistant, which can interact by texting or talking with students. 鈥淚 want my students to walk out of the M.S.W. program as good critical thinkers. The Test Kitchen gave me the basics to think about AI in a different way and gave me tangible skills to start playing with.鈥�

Although she hasn鈥檛 rolled out the AI assistant for classroom use yet, Romano said that her students have shown enthusiasm for the tool.

鈥淚鈥檓 excited by the possibilities,鈥� said Romano. (Read more about how the 羞羞影院 School of Social Work is using AI in teaching, research and clinical training.)

Instead, CDIL is creating community and curiosity-centered spaces where faculty can engage and experiment with AI tools in a way that's meaningful to their teaching and disciplines鈥攏ot just as a technical challenge, but as a design and pedagogical one, grounded in institutional shared values and commitment to student learning.听

鈥淲e鈥檝e found that 羞羞影院 faculty are best supported when they can situate their thinking in conversation with colleagues, rather than feeling like they have to navigate these powerful and potentially disruptive technologies on their own,鈥� Salerno added.