2023 was the first full year tech companies like OpenAI and Google flooded higher education with its generative AI tools. In this blog post we review the work AITF has done to assist scholars and teachers in languages, literatures, and…
Should we change the way we assign writing this fall given what we know about current AI text generation capabilities? The task force is cautioning educators about the use of unreliable and biased AI text detection software (see our Working…
Members of the Task Force led an online session, “AI and Writing Programs: Issues for Program Coordinators,” through the Council of Writing Program Administrators in September 2023.
This post is the first in a series responding to feedback we received during and immediately following the July 26 webinar “What AI Means for Teaching.” We were excited to receive nearly 180 comments and questions, and while we can’t…
In the two months since the Joint Task Force on AI and Writing’s first public working paper was released, many readers have provided feedback and comments on the page. Commenters have expressed gratitude for the task force’s willingness to take…
Members of the Task Force talked with Shane Wood on the Pedagogue podcast (transcript): Episode 149: In this episode, Elizabeth Losh, Sarah Z. Johnson, and Matthew Kirschenbaum talk about the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI.
Members of the Task Force talked with the Rhetoricity podcast in August 2023: AI Goes to College: LLMS and the Teaching of Writing
The MLA has been awarded a Chair’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the work of the AI task force. The grant will allow the AITF to convene key stakeholders to further advance its work developing…
On July 26, 2023, the AI and Writing Task Force held a webinar (see the summary in a previous blog post). You can view the recording here What AI Means for Teaching (You are welcome to view the recording–you just…
On July 26, 2023 the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI held its first webinar, focused on what AI means for teaching, to share information about the work of the task force to date, to provide an overview…