Five literacies

What explains and shapes AI behaviour?

Use each literacy as an experimental lens. A unit may foreground one literacy while other literacies remain relevant.

Literacy

Interaction

How request structure, exchange design, examples, clarification, and feedback shape behaviour.

Literacy

Mechanism

How tokens, attention, parameters, sampling, variability, and model behaviour affect predictability.

Literacy

Data

How sources, grounding, retrieval, factuality, provenance, and traceability shape reliability.

Literacy

System

How workflows, handoffs, roles, state, tools, memory, permissions, and orchestration create control.

Literacy

Human-Context

How trust, responsibility, legitimacy, ethics, leadership, culture, and social fit shape success.