Lecturer guide Evidence-based learning Responsible collaboration

CAS Human-AI Collaboration

Plan each Friday, trace the curriculum through different lenses, and connect nine evidence-based challenges to adaptive mastery.

The course shifts focus

FROM“What can AI do?”

TO“How do we design human-AI collaboration so that reliable, responsible outcomes emerge?”

Start with your task

Four ways into the curriculum

The same course guidance can be entered from the teaching task or conceptual lens that matters now.

Prepare

Plan a Friday

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Interpret

Explore a literacy

Trace what explains and shapes behaviour across Interaction, Mechanism, Data, System, and Human-Context.

Explain

Find an AI fundamental

Locate the concepts, demonstrations, caveats, and questions that explain observed results.

Progression

Nine Fridays, one learning arc

Each unit adds a form of control while contributing evidence to the participant’s emerging personal theory of control.

Unit 01

From Asking to Structuring: Designing AI Interaction

This Friday develops the unit's collaboration move through the specified literacy lens and prepares participants for the associated evidence-based challenge.

Interaction literacyLevel 1: Instruction
Unit 03

Why Models Behave Differently: Parameters, Variability, and Control

Participants learn to stop treating model variability as inexplicable noise. They learn to hold a task stable, vary one generation condition, repeat trials, and use the resulting evidence to decide when variability is useful, when it is risky, and which controls are appropriate.

Mechanism literacyLevel 1: Instruction with mechanistic control
Unit 04

From Opinion to Evidence: Grounding AI in Data and Sources

Participants learn that fluent output is only as defensible as the information made available to the model. They learn to inspect source selection, retrieval, chunking, citation, and claim support rather than treating a grounded answer as reliable merely because it contains references.

Data literacyLevel 1: Instruction with grounded evidence control
Unit 05

From Answers to Processes: Designing Human-AI Co-Construction

Participants learn that a clear request can still produce weak work when execution is treated as one opaque generation step. They learn to design phases, roles, handoffs, intermediate artefacts, and checkpoints that make complex work inspectable and steerable.

System literacyLevel 3: Co-construction
Unit 06

Reflection Loops: Critique, Revision, and Better Reasoning

Participants learn that asking for improvement is not yet a reflection process. They learn to separate construction, judging, revision, and verification; define explicit conditions of satisfaction; and test whether critique produces evidence-backed improvement rather than confident churn.

Interaction literacyLevel 4: Reflection
Unit 07

Leadership, Responsibility, and Legitimation in Human-AI Systems

Participants learn that a plausible AI recommendation does not become a legitimate decision merely because a human approves it. They learn to design and test the decision rights, evidence requirements, escalation routes, and opportunities for contestation that make human responsibility substantive rather than symbolic.

Human-Context literacyLevel 4: Reflection with responsible co-construction
Unit 08

Designing Workflows: From Single Chat to Reliable AI Systems

Participants learn to move beyond a sequence of chat turns and design a controllable agentic system with explicit state, capabilities, routing, validation, permissions, stop conditions, and human approval. They learn when orchestration improves reliability and when it only adds complexity.

System literacyLevel 5: Orchestration
Unit 09

Security and Trust Boundaries in Human-AI Collaboration

This Friday makes security concrete as a control problem. Participants experience how LLM systems can confuse untrusted content with trusted instruction, and how workflow design, source governance, permissions, and human checkpoints affect controllability.

System literacyLevel 5: Orchestration with security-aware control

Module 2

From accumulated evidence to adaptive mastery

Participants select and interpret evidence from the nine challenges, redesign a context-specific work practice, stress-test its adaptability, and articulate a Human-AI Collaboration Blueprint and personal theory of control.

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