University Design | Auteuring: A New Competency for the AI Age
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Show by Melissa Morriss-Olson
By David J. Staley | An IngenioUs Leadership FeatureAre we teaching students to compete with artificial intelligence, or to become the creative minds who direct it?Universities are sending students mixed messages about AI. They're warned that using it to write assignments constitutes cheating, yet they're also told that AI fluency will be essential to their professional futures. How do we reconcile these contradictions?In this provocative installment of University Design, David J. Staley offers a different way of thinking about the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.Drawing on his own experiments writing and producing radio plays in collaboration with large language models, Staley explores what it means to be an author when AI participates in the creative process. Is he the playwright, the director, the showrunner, or something else entirely?Inspired by filmmakers such as Werner Herzog and the collaborative artistry behind the classic film Network, Staley introduces the concept of "auteuring," the ability to bring a distinctly human vision, judgment, and creative direction to work produced in partnership with AI.His argument has important implications for higher education. Perhaps the challenge isn't simply to teach students how to use AI tools, but to help them become the auteurs of their own intellectual and creative work.A question worth considering:What would change about teaching and learning if we treated AI not simply as a tool for producing answers, but as a creative collaborator that students must learn to direct?University Design is an essay series by David J. Staley, published through IngenioUs Leadership, exploring bold ideas and new possibilities for the future of higher education.Explore more from IngenioUs Leadership:https://ingeniousleadership.org#UniversityDesign #DavidStaley #IngenioUsLeadership #ArtificialIntelligence #HigherEducation #AIFluency #FutureOfHigherEducation
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