AI Foundations
This author argues that programming is a literacy, not just a technical skill.
Who is Annette Vee?
The authors of the influential study on AI bias in facial recognition.
Who are Timnit Gebru and Joy Buolamwini?
The first chatbot.
We read the most articles from this resaercher this semester.
Who is Nupoor Ranade?
An algorithm is:
A set of instructions designed to accomplish a task.
These simple probabilistic language models were your introduction to text production.
What are Markov chains?
This practice examines an algorithm for bias or unfairness, then evaluates to make it better.
What is algorithmic auditing?
We should use _____ instead of edge cases.
What are stress cases?
One standard that guides writers working with AI is:
What is NIST, IABC, Author's Guild, etc., etc.?
Dr. Friess's article demonstrated how AI tools can support this part of qualitative research.
What is establishing intercoder reliability?
Cathy O'Neil defines models as:
“Nothing more than an abstract representation of some process, be it a baseball game, an oil company’s supply chain, a foreign government’s actions, or a movie theater’s attendance. Whether it’s running in a computer program or in our head, the model takes what we know and uses it to predict responses in various situations. All of us carry thousands of models in our heads. They tell us what to expect, and they guide our decisions” (O’Neil, 2016, 18-19).
The two kinds of algorithmic audits (according to Buolamwini).
What are evocative audits and algorithmic audits?
These are three kinds of usability testing:
What are paraphrase testing, plus-minus testing, and task-based testing?
Knowles’s piece described this approach where humans and machines share the writing load.
What is machine-in-the-loop writing?
This field of UX is growing rapidly and involves crafted responses and personalities for chatbots.
What is conversation design?
These are the two main kinds of AI described in the AI Snake Oil book by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
What are generative and predictive AI?
The differences between accessibility, universal design, and inclusive design are:
What is:
Conversational designers usually do the following:
What is:
Gallagher et al argue that instructors and students are _________ in their perceptions of academic dishonesty.
What is "generally aligned"?
This author argues that "AI is evolutionary, not revolutionary" and "requires us to know more, not less about technical communication."
Who is Stuart Selber?
The three kinds of literacies offer a useful approach to theorizing AI literacy.
What is: functional, critical, and rhetorical literacy?
This researcher argued that AI is "Neither artificial nor intelligent. Rather, artificial intelligence is both embodied and material, made from natural resources, human labor, infrastructures, logistics, histories, and classifications.”
Who is Kate Crawford?
Hocutt, Ranade, and Verhusdonck argued that TPC professionals co-create personalized chatbot responses alongside this machine-learning process.
What is content localization?
This pivotal court ruling had major implications for copyright law, ruling that using legally acquired texts for training was fair use.
What is Anthropic v. Bartz?
The main idea of Casilli's book Waiting for Robots was:
“Today’s society no longer requires a machine to be intelligent...instead, today’s AI has refashioned humans as a machines that execute instructions mechanically and without challenging them. Inevitability, then, the scientific program of artificial intelligence involves a certain cybernetics, or art of controlling human beings and disciplining the execution of their activities” (Casilli, 2025, p. 19).
“Automations perpetuates its myth by concealing digital labor” (Casilli, 2025, p. 19).
“I employ “digital labor” to mean the process of turning work into tasks (taskification) and into data (datafication), at a time when AI and machine learning are integral to our economies and our lives. As a set of practices, digital labor lies at the intersection between nonstandard forms of employment, freelancing, micropaid piecework, professionalized amateur activities, monetized leisure, and visible data production” (Casilli, 2025, p.20).