Dietrich GAINS is seeking contributions to AI Bites. The GAINS initiative aims to promote AI literacy and innovation in graduate education throughout the Dietrich School by harnessing the expertise and experiences of students and faculty across the diverse disciplines of our graduate community, by sharing and disseminating those experiences beyond the confines of the hallways of our home departments, and by facilitating ongoing conversation around best practices and responsible adoption of new, widely accessible AI technologies.
Contributions to AI Bites can address any aspect of artificial intelligence as it pertains to graduate education in arts and sciences, including but not limited to:
- Use in research and scholarship. Are there tools or techniques that have enhanced your research (e.g., coding, statistical analysis, writing, literature reviews, etc.)? In what ways are you using AI tools to develop research ideas or proposals? Are there ways of interacting with these tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) that you’ve found to be more effective than others? Are there tools you’ve tried that you wouldn’t recommend to others?
- Use in the classroom. How are you thinking about the role of AI in graduate courses, seminars, comprehensive exams, etc.? How have you seen AI addressed in pedagogical training? As graduate students, what have been your experiences incorporating (or prohibiting) AI tools in your recitations or as instructors of record in your own courses?
- Where do you turn to for advice? Are there specific people in your discipline or in higher education in general whose ideas and writing you’ve found to be helpful in your own thinking?
- What are your concerns about the future of education or scholarship now that AI is here and widely available? How have you seen those concerns addressed in the last year? How are ethical concerns being addressed, including issues of ownership, equity, or access? What about the impact on research methodologies? Or on creative processes? If you could direct our attention to developing solutions or guidelines for addressing those problems, where and how should we focus?
Contributions will be featured on the GAINS website and newsletter. They can take several forms and can be direct or supported.
Direct Contributions
- Written contributions should be approximately 500 words; accompanying images (e.g., screenshots, figures, pictures) are highly encouraged.
- Video contributions should be 2-5 minutes in length.
- Faculty and student contributors will benefit from professional visibility, additional networking opportunities, and impacting a significant schoolwide conversation. In addition, direct contributors will receive $100 as a token of our appreciation (while supplies last).
- Dietrich GAINS team will provide feedback, editorial guidance (copyediting, style, etc.), and can assist with video formatting and editing.
Supported Contributions
If you would like to contribute your ideas but do not have enough time or bandwidth to submit a full contribution, contact the Dietrich GAINS team (gains@pitt.edu), who will discuss your ideas with you and help create the content (e.g., they can help write the piece or interview you and edit the interview into a short video). Supported contributors will receive attribution and credit.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis and should be submitted using the form below. Please include your name as we should use it, as well as pronouns, affiliation, department, and (if applicable) a link to your university profile.