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@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.
  },
  wwwnote={<a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Courses/309fall24/">Course webpage</a>},
}