Middlebury College launches AI initiatives, including faculty mini-grants

Middlebury College faculty are embracing the exploration of AI, including examining where it falls short.

A popular narrative online now is that most college students use artificial intelligence to automate their work and to cheat. Middlebury College profs found that some using AI in a different way actually improved learning in the long term.

“We may find there is no use for AI in schools; that may be where we land. I feel that we have a responsibility to have bigger conversations with students about AI.”

The future of A.I. and the fate of humanity must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley.

“Coexisting with AI: Work, Love and Play in a Changing World,” a new book by Kay Firth-Butterfield, encourages people to use artificial intelligence with consideration and care.

This year’s Clifford Symposium at Middlebury College weighed the benefits and drawbacks of AI in education.

Middlebury College’s 2025 Clifford Symposium will explore the impact of AI on human agency, collective responsibility and the future of learning.

“ChatGPT…synthesize[s] information that already exists in our system and thus it simply reproduces systemic biases.”

I am disappointed to notice that two different arts organizations in our community have stooped to using AI art for their poster design.