{"id":7986,"date":"2023-08-03T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/?page_id=7986"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:57:34","slug":"fall2023facultyseminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/research-and-professional-development\/faculty-seminars\/fall2023facultyseminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI: What Does It Mean for Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Generative AI: What Does It Mean for Us?<\/b><\/h3>\n<h5><em>Spring 2024: \u00a0Feb. <b>5, 12, 26, \u00a0and Mar. 4, 11:00-12:15<\/b><span class=\"xapple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span>on Zoom.<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<h3><strong><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Fall 2023: Nov. 6, 13, 20, and 27, 3:35-4:50 on Zoom<\/i><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.<\/i><\/strong><b><strong><i style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This four-session faculty seminar addresses the evolving landscape of generative AI tools, exploring their current and potential impacts on writing, research, and teaching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 1--Introduction<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Clarke, Milmo, &amp; Blight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2023\/nov\/01\/how-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-or-bard-work-visual-explainer\">How Chatbots Like ChatGPT or Bard Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Conrad, <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalai.org\/2023\/07\/17\/a-blueprint-for-an-ai-bill-of-rights-for-education-kathryn-conrad\/\">&#8220;A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jamieson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/03\/jamieson.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AI \u201cCrisis\u201d and a (Re) Turn to Pedagogy<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johnson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/johnson.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDon\u2019t Act Like You Forgot\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supplemental\/nonrequired:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhatia, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/04\/26\/upshot\/gpt-from-scratch.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk0.QEG6.Rkqgyy069Uy1&amp;smid=url-share\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but\u2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wac.colostate.edu\/repository\/collections\/textgened\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TextGenEd<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 2--What does gen AI mean for academic integrity?<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anson, &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eric.ed.gov\/?id=EJ1361686\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI-Based Text Generation and the Social Construction of &#8216;Fraudulent Authorship&#8217;: A Revisitation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drsaraheaton.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/02\/postplagiarism.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Eaton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on post-plagiarism and Maha Bali\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mahabali.me\/educational-technology-2\/are-we-approaching-a-postplagiarism-era\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">response<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Liang et al., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/patterns\/fulltext\/S2666-3899(23)00130-7\">&#8220;<span>GPT Detectors Are Biased Against Non-native English Writers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/academic-conduct-code\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/academic-conduct-code\/\">Revisions to the Boston University Academic Conduct Code<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 3--What does gen AI mean for writing?<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morrison, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/morrison.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMeta-Writing: AI and Writing\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cope and Kalantzis, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cgscholar.com\/community\/community_profiles\/new-learning\/community_updates\/177659\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A Multimodal Grammar of Artificial Intelligence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>MLA-CCCC <a href=\"https:\/\/hcommons.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/1003160\/2023\/07\/MLA-CCCC-Joint-Task-Force-on-Writing-and-AI-Working-Paper-1.pdf\">Working Paper on Writing and AI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 4--What does gen AI mean for research?<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\">Gertner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/18\/magazine\/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=hn440WtrZblOjaEabfaX4D7GZ-_V7ljRMs7AGfBUJtseKmVZK7KUFdF737QuWhc8k7a2TMPCzwccjCiwBuX_AHP3XiKWUPjuxh1rhRZnRxExEY11uyXDHGh9eAJObi4ZBFKJwc3fg9Evm_adRuehC9BbsgohtHwSIZjK7E8VxpAuUDq6mGAS4AScU5v9fo5LPHmKw8lStnW1Zm5oUYT6vqi6ftAUox1l5ySbo2Xy7lrM7fixVuyeYJpkMOzdLXm9xJVI2BSD_EobJ6xwbSDNMeCoEb1rQQ071qJVFla1CWNX8jsxDiAfvTTA6o0a2ID8T59xKoEJxA4MgUeaWQ4b&amp;smid=url-share\">&#8220;Wikipedia&#8217;s Moment of Truth&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"2\">Matthews, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-02346-4\">&#8220;Drowning in the Literature?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI: What Does It Mean for Us? 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