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Introduction to AI

How AI Was Used for This Course

Every class in this course ends with the same accountability question — can you explain how AI was used and own the result? (Seven-Question Check, Questions 5 and 7.) Fair warning starts at home, so here is our own disclosure for this website and the course itself.

What AI did

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  • Built the site. A large language model set up this static site — the Astro + Starlight scaffolding, page structure, navigation, and styling — and it handles most ongoing edits: reformatting notes into lesson pages, updating outlines after class, checking that internal links and the sidebar stay consistent.
  • Brainstormed the course. The first draft of the syllabus — the ten-class arc, activity ideas, the academics-then-careers split, and early versions of the class schedule and session outlines — came from prompting an AI to explore options for a high-school AI elective.

What the human did

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  • Chose the framework. The course is built around Curtis Fry’s Seven-Question AI Check, which the human instructor selected as the spine of every class.
  • Refined everything. The AI drafts went through rounds of human edits: reordering the sequence, cutting topics that don’t fit ten 60-minute classes, rewriting language to fit the students, and correcting ideas the AI got wrong or generic.
  • Owns the result. Every page published here was read and approved by the instructor, who stands behind it — errors included. The AI drafted; the human decided.

Why this page exists

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  1. Full transparency. This class exists because of AI help. The honest version: I would not have had the time to prep ten weeks of lessons any other way — AI saved the hours this course needed. Saying that out loud is the point: if you’re going to use AI, be straight about where it was used and what it did for you.
  2. Owning the result. The accountability test we use every class — can you explain how AI was used, and stand behind the output? — I’m holding myself to it first. Every page here was reviewed and is published under the instructor’s name, errors included. The AI drafted; the human decided; the human owns it.