{"id":221957,"date":"2026-05-28T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:00:11","slug":"st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mike\u2019s first-year students start reflecting on AI in their first semesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcvt.edu\/about-smc\/news\/2026\/may\/st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters\/\">St. Mike\u2019s first-year students start reflecting on AI in their first semesters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcvt.edu\/about-smc\/news\/2026\/may\/st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters\/\">https:\/\/www.smcvt.edu\/about-smc\/news\/2026\/may\/st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 15:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.smcvt.edu\">www.smcvt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are four key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Introduction to AI Ethics<\/strong>: This year, first-year students at Saint Michael\u2019s College received an introduction to AI ethics, benefits, and pitfalls through their required First-Year Seminar courses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Common Text<\/strong>: The new &#8220;common text&#8221; for first-year students is &#8220;AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can\u2019t, and How to Tell the Difference&#8221; by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Influential Teaching Approach<\/strong>: The book emphasizes informed skepticism towards AI claims and aims to teach the practical workings of AI tools to empower students to differentiate between effective tools and ineffective or harmful ones.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Promoting Responsible AI<\/strong>: The curriculum aims to ensure AI serves society well by encouraging a balanced approach to AI&#8217;s integration, focusing on making tools serve human objectives rather than the reverse. It emphasizes the importance of demanding more responsible and adapted AI products.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Mike\u2019s first-year students start reflecting on AI in their first semesters https:\/\/www.smcvt.edu\/about-smc\/news\/2026\/may\/st-mikes-first-year-students-start-reflecting-on-ai-in-their-first-semesters\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.smcvt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/634A6338WEB.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-221957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221959,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221957\/revisions\/221959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}