AI at Carleton Blog

Carleton is piloting a new AI tool for Spring 2025.  Let us know if you are interested in using it.

Janet Scannell discusses the responsibilities and questions that come with implementing a complex technology as AI.

Sindy Fleming, Associate Dean of Students, and Bill North, Professor of History, discuss their experience with an AI Tool, Sway, and how it could help with practicing debate and dialogue.

DeepSeek has generated excitement as a new AI model, but its use comes with serious risks. Instead of using DeepSeek, we recommend Google Gemini, which provides strong data privacy protections for higher education users in its terms of service.

Ross Elfline, Professor of Art History, discusses generative AI through the lens of Surrealism and Walter Benjamin’s ideas.

Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Professor of Physics and former director of Carleton’s Perlman Center for Teaching and Learning, discusses teaching with AI and how she uses evidence-based research to measure the effect.

Kendall George, Carleton College’s Information Security Officer, discusses privacy and security concerns with AI.

Nathan Grawe, Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of Economics and the Liberal Arts discusses how AI might affect the labor market and how he thinks students and colleges should respond to it.

Don Vosburg, Academic Technologist for Learning Innovation at Carleton College, talks about how generative AI might affect teaching and learning, especially language learning and accessibility.

For the first episode, Jennifer Wolff-Ross and George Cusack talked with Alison Byerly, President of Carleton College, about the Year of Curiosity initiative and the ways she sees AI impacting teaching, learning, and working at Carleton.