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AI & Digital Arts · MS elective · 3 credit hours · 16 sessions

AI as Creative Partner

This interdisciplinary studio course reframes Artificial Intelligence from a “tool” to a “collaborator.” It focuses on the psychological and workflow dynamics of working with a non-human intelligence. Students will engage in projects where the AI is treated as a teammate—bouncing ideas, co-writing code, or co-designing products. The course explores the “Centaur” model of creativity (Human + AI) and how to maintain human agency while leveraging machine speed.

§ 01 By the end you can
  1. Develop "Co-Creative" workflows for writing, coding, and design
  2. Analyze the "Feedback Loop" between human intent and machine output
  3. Practice "Iterative Prompting" as a form of conversation and refinement
  4. overcoming "Hallucinations" through critical human oversight
  5. Create a collaborative project where the division of labor between Human and AI is clearly mapped
§ 02 Sixteen sessions

The whole semester.

  1. 01The "Centaur" Model: Human + Machine
  2. 02AI as Brainstorming Partner
  3. 03The Feedback Loop: Iteration vs. Generation
  4. 04Hallucinations as Creative Sparks
  5. 05AI in Research & Fact-Checking
  6. 06Co-Writing: Fiction & Non-Fiction
  7. 07Visual Dialogue: Image-to-Text-to-Image
  8. 08 · MidtermMidterm Examination
  9. 09Co-Coding: AI as Junior Developer
  10. 10Co-Designing: Iterative Prototyping
  11. 11The Editor's Role: Curation is Creation
  12. 12Bias Check: The Partner's Blindspots
  13. 13Psychological Safety & Automation Anxiety
  14. 14Collaborative Ethics
  15. 15The Future of Collaboration
  16. 16Final Project: The Co-Authored Works

Midterm around session 8. Final project briefed at session 8 or 9 and developed in stages until the juries.

§ 03 Final project

Final Project: The Co-Authored Works

How it’s judged

Recommended reading
  1. Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together by Thomas W. Malone
  2. Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul Daugherty
  3. The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
  4. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  5. Reprogramming the American Dream by Kevin Scott
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