Equip Students to Dialog Across Differences Using an AI Guide

Teaching in Higher Ed

Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella discuss how to equip students to dialog across differences using an AI Guide they’ve created on episode 560 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Most of my students have not heard cogent arguments on the other side of whatever their own position is because they’ve been so siloed.
-Simon Cullen

In every one of these classes the point is to try and confront students with the strongest arguments I can find, ideally for the thing they don’t believe.
-Simon Cullen

The first thing they hear from me is if you wish to avoid the risk of being offended, then you should probably not be taking this class.
-Simon Cullen

In philosophy, we always embrace disagreement.
-Nicholas DiBella

We have designed the guide to be as neutral as possible.
-Nicholas DiBella

Resources

• Sway Website
• Experimental results
• Student feedback
• Transcripts of Real Chats From Students and Experimental participants
• Feedback From Students About Simon’s Dangerous Ideas Carnegie Mellon Course
• In Praise of Ignorance: To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance, by Simon Cullen
• Mike Caulfield’s SIFT
• Over or Under: We Asked a Physicist to End the World’s Great Toilet Paper Debate, by VICE Staff
• AI is Unavoidable, Not Inevitable, by Marc Watkins
• I want your attention. I need your attention. Here is how I mastered by own, by Chris Hayes (gift article)
• Lemon Twigs – Everything Harmony
• Evolved Chocolate
• Heterodox Academy
• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, by Joseph Henrich