Enhancing the Trustworthiness of AI in Higher Education

"Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education” is Professor Alexa Alice Joubin’s latest publication. A member of Trustworthy AI in Law and Society and GW Trustworthy AI Initiative and director of the Digital Humanities Institute, Professor Joubin built a proprietary, trustworthy AI Teaching Assistant chatbot (try it at https://criticaltheory.info/) as a proof of concept and to test the hypothesis of trustworthy AI in education. In the published study, she proposes new pedagogical strategies to use AI responsibly in higher education, with an emphasis on critical questioning skills and meta-cognition skills. She argues that, since generative AI synthesizes anonymized public voices, it is a ghost and synthetic version of the publics. Here is the full text of her article.