AIME298B
Special Topics in Artificial Intelligence; Thinking With AI: Tools, Agents, and Your Agency
AI agents can now research, write, design, and build on your behalf. This course is about the other kind of agency: yours. It's a hands-on introduction to working with AI while you stay in charge of the goals, the judgment calls, and your own learning. You'll learn how AI systems are built, with no programming or math, and how their training shapes their behavior, like why AI assistants are so quick to tell you you're brilliant. You'll also learn how your own mind learns, so you can tell when AI is helping you learn and when it's just helping you finish. In projects like directing an AI coding agent and checking its work, you'll plan where you will and won't use AI and compare that with what actually happened. You'll finish able to decide when AI serves your goals, and to use it without giving up your agency.