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Class prep: Read
- Read: Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato, "Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in 'digital sweatshops'." Washington Post, August 28, 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence.
- Read: Sean McGever, "Theologically Informed Pedagogical Solutions to the ChatGPT 'Problem'," Didaktikos (blog), March 2023. https://www.logos.com/grow/didaktikos-chatgpt-seminary/.
- Read: Olivia B. Waxman, “The Creative Ways Teachers Are Using ChatGPT,” Time (August 8, 2023). https://time.com/6300950/ai-schools-chatgpt-teachers/
- Read: Silvia Vaccino-Salvadore, “Expooring the Ethical Dimensions of Using ChatGPT in Language Learning and Beyond,” Languages 8, no. 3 (Aug. 2023): 191, https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8030191.
Class Prep: Do
- If you have not done so before, consider signing up for an account with ChatGPT. Play around with the tool to see how powerful it is.
- What happens if you ask it to write a 1000-word short story about a topic you love in the style of your favorite author?
- What happens if you tell it to "explain hermeneutics to me like I am 5" versus "explain hermeneutics to me like I'm in seminary"?
- What happens if you copy/paste the text of an article into ChatGPT and tell it to summarize it for you?
- What happens if you ask it to write a sermon based on Amos 5 and the Black Lives Matter movement? Would you preach this sermon? Why/why not? What would you do with this sermon besides preach it, if anything?
