Use AI as a thinking partner
AI is most valuable when it helps you generate alternatives, pressure-test ideas, explain difficult concepts, or practice applying what you are learning.
- Ask AI to challenge your assumptions, not only agree with you.
- Use it to generate practice questions or role-play scenarios.
- Ask for multiple approaches and compare them.
- Explain your reasoning back in your own words.
Verify before you trust
Generative AI can produce confident answers that are incomplete or wrong. Treat verification as part of the workflow.
- Check factual claims against credible sources.
- Confirm calculations and citations independently.
- Do not submit invented sources, data, or quotations.
- Protect confidential, proprietary, and personally sensitive information.
Use AI to practice career skills
AI can help you rehearse interviews, refine résumé bullets, compare a job posting with your experience, and prepare for networking conversations.
- Provide truthful context about your own experience.
- Ask for critique before asking for a rewrite.
- Keep the final language natural and recognizably yours.
- Never fabricate accomplishments or skills.
Protect the skills that create human value
As routine tasks become easier to automate, communication, judgment, persuasion, creativity, relationship-building, and accountability become more important—not less.
- Practice difficult conversations.
- Make decisions with incomplete information.
- Learn to explain tradeoffs clearly.
- Build domain knowledge so you can evaluate AI output.
Use these resources as a starting point. Your course Canvas site remains the official source for assignments, deadlines, grades, and course-specific instructions.