2026-08-25
Introductions
Class Setup
Final Project
Generative AI
Field Trip
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Introductions
Class Setup
Final Project
Generative AI
Field Trip
Introductions
Class Setup
Final Project
Generative AI
Field Trip
The final project is designed for you to demonstrate your understanding of machine learning.
Build a machine learning model related to any data you are interested in predicting the outcome.
Use existing machine learning models for classification, transcription or any other purpose.
Explore advance topics related to machine learning.
You will need to describe
You will demonstrate your results during a poster presentation on December 8, 2026.
You written report will be due on December 5th, 2026 @ 11:59 PM
More information will be provided on a later date.
For those that need an extension in completing your final report, you may obtain up 7 days extension for every appointment you meet with the Writing and Multiliteracy Center to work on your report.
Introductions
Class Setup
Final Project
Generative AI
Field Trip
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to complete any part or all of an assignment/exam is strictly prohibited in this class. This includes, but not limited to, ChatGPT, Claude, Meta AI, and Google Gemini.
You may use AI to enhance you understanding of the material.
You may not use AI to complete assignments.
You may not upload any course material to any AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Meta AI, and Google Gemini. Exceptions are allowed for DASS-approved services.
There are consequences when you use of AI:
The purpose of this class, and college, is for you to learn about critical thinking skills and perseverance. Using AI will only teach you how to get an answer, which may or may not be correct.
You will not develop the skills needed to problem solve a challenge. Additionally, developing grit is essential to become successful in college and life. There is no easy way out and AI is an illusion to your success in life.
To learn something, it requires hours of work! If not years!
When using AI, you must acknowledge its limitations:
Responses provided may be incorrect
Responses may not be fair
Companies may manipulate responses and/or terms of service for their benefit
Companies may not have your best interst in mind
You should always proceed with caution utilizing these tools!
Additionally, all these individuals are not receiving any royalties for the work to be used in creating generative AI models.
Inside Higher Ed and The New Yorker highlight individual’s concern of their work being used to train AI models.
The use of generative AI raises concerns of what data is being harvested from us, possibly without informed consent or knowledge of impacts.
When you use any large language models, you do not know what information is being harvested from you.
Do you want to upload your thoughts and ideas to a company that can monetize, and possibly exploit you.
Does your Professors consent with you uploading their assignments to large language models?
Stanford provided a report highlighting the risks of our personal data use in large language models.
In order to run these large language models, companies need to use a large amounts of energy. This is because large servers are needed to both train and execute a model.
The LA Times reports the potential impact that running AI models in California.
Additionally, Time reports that a ChatGPT query uses ten times more energy than a Google search query, and global AI demands can consume of 1 trillion gallons of water by 2027.
There are also environmental justice questions about where these data centers are constructed.
The Washington Post and Time (Article 1 and Article 2) reported that AI companies utilize “digital sweatshops” to classify data points for model training.
There is a human cost from the Global South, both financially and mentally, to develop the AI models for users in the United States and Europe.
We must be conscious consumers and demand more from these companies to provide safe working conditions and livable wages.
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AI surveillance and data colonialism shape African conflicts
African workers are taking on Meta and the world should pay attention
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
Introductions
Class Setup
Final Project
Generative AI
Field Trip