INFO 240 - Argumentation and Information Literacy for AI: Case Studies in the Ethics of AI Use

1. Identify, analyze, and evaluate inductive and deductive arguments, including their fallacies, about the social, political, environmental and economic dimensions of AI usage including how these affect marginalized communities.
2. Construct arguments to support and/or criticize potential uses of AI, understanding the social justice elements of such uses, particularly potential embedded biases and effects on marginalized communities.
3. Develop search strategies to find and evaluate sources of evidence for use in supporting arguments, from diverse perspectives, understanding the power dynamics involved in the construction and dissemination of knowledge and information and the growing significance of AI’s role in information retrieval.
4. Create strategies to make ethical decisions, aligned with social justice considerations, on how to utilize (or not utilize) AI in a variety of situations and reflect on barriers to implement those strategies.
5. Develop outlining, drafting, revising, and editing phases of writing cohesive and coherent arguments on AI case studies within a range of educational, social, political and/or scientific applications, incorporating an awareness of discipline specific terminologies and audience.

1. Analyze arguments, including those that are weak or flawed.
2. Logically develop and present arguments in writing to support and refute claims using evidence.
3. Reason inductively and deductively.
4. Incorporate key critical thinking disciplinary concepts and tools when reasoning.
5. Incorporate key composition concepts and tools when writing including engaging with critical feedback, addressing different audiences, considering multiple perspectives, and integrating primary/secondary sources.

1. Write for at least two different audiences (e.g. academic, general, and/or professional).
2. Engage in writing for specific purposes (e.g. critical thinking, analytical writing, informal writing, and/or research).
3. Apply critical thinking and logical reasoning in the development and organization of ideas in written texts.
4. Consider multiple perspectives using primary and/or secondary sources, and when appropriate, incorporate key disciplinary concepts when presenting ideas in writing.
5. Revise writing with critical feedback provided by the instructor at important junctures throughout the semester in order to improve development, clarity, coherence, and correctness.

1. Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
2. Describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
3. Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.