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The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: A Full-Scale AI Literacy Course Accessible to All.
Zifan
Xu, Kristen Procko, Michael Munje, Kristin Patterson, Lea Sabatini, Joydeep
Biswas, and Peter Stone.
In Symposium on Educational Advances in
Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), January 2026.
In Fall 2023, we introduced a new AI Literacy class called The Essentials of AIfor Life and Society (CS 109), a one-credit, seminar course consisting mainly ofguest lectures, which was open to the entire university, including students,staff, and faculty. Building on its success and popularity, this paper describesour significant expansion of the course into a full-scale three-creditundergraduate course (CS 309), with an expanded emphasis on student engagement,interactivity, and ethics-related components. To knit together content from theguest lecturers, we implemented a flipped classroom. This model used weeklyasynchronous learning modules--integrating pre-recorded expert lectures,collaborative readings, and ethical reflections--which were then unified by thecourse instructor during a live, interactive discussion session. To maintain thebroad accessibility of the material (no prerequisites), the course introducedsubstantive, non-programming homework assignments in which students applied AIconcepts to grounded, real-world problems. This work culminated in a finalproject analyzing the ethical and societal implications of a chosen AI tool. Theredesigned course received overwhelmingly positive student feedback, highlightingits interactivity, coherence, and accessible and engaging assignments. This paperdetails the course's evolution, its pedagogical structure, and the lessonslearned in developing a core AI literacy course. All course materials are freelyavailable for others to use and build upon.
@InProceedings{peter_stone_eaai_2026,
author = {Zifan Xu and Kristen Procko and Michael Munje and Kristin Patterson and Lea Sabatini and Joydeep Biswas and Peter Stone},
title = {The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: A Full-Scale AI Literacy Course Accessible to All},
booktitle = {Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)},
year = {2026},
month = {January},
location = {Singapore, Singapore},
abstract = {In Fall 2023, we introduced a new AI Literacy class called The Essentials of AI
for Life and Society (CS 109), a one-credit, seminar course consisting mainly of
guest lectures, which was open to the entire university, including students,
staff, and faculty. Building on its success and popularity, this paper describes
our significant expansion of the course into a full-scale three-credit
undergraduate course (CS 309), with an expanded emphasis on student engagement,
interactivity, and ethics-related components. To knit together content from the
guest lecturers, we implemented a flipped classroom. This model used weekly
asynchronous learning modules--integrating pre-recorded expert lectures,
collaborative readings, and ethical reflections--which were then unified by the
course instructor during a live, interactive discussion session. To maintain the
broad accessibility of the material (no prerequisites), the course introduced
substantive, non-programming homework assignments in which students applied AI
concepts to grounded, real-world problems. This work culminated in a final
project analyzing the ethical and societal implications of a chosen AI tool. The
redesigned course received overwhelmingly positive student feedback, highlighting
its interactivity, coherence, and accessible and engaging assignments. This paper
details the course's evolution, its pedagogical structure, and the lessons
learned in developing a core AI literacy course. All course materials are freely
available for others to use and build upon.
},
}
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