Artificial Intelligence Resource Center

Welcome to Trinity College’s AI Resource Center!

Wherever you are in your AI learning journey, we hope to use this space to provide resources and opportunities to improve understanding and integration of AI in your personal and professional lives. As always, if you have more questions or want support applying AI, please reach out to your designated Instructional Technologist.

The Digital Learning & Scholarship team would like to take a moment to acknowledge the current state of AI. The emergence and rapid growth of generative AI has caused many people to be wary of the technology and there are valid concerns (See this post on concerns). However, AI is a general-purpose tool already shaping many parts of people’s lives and will likely only increase its impact. As a result, we believe the technology is here to stay and through early adoption and experimentation, we can craft our use of AI in thoughtful ways that support well-rounded, efficient, and creative thinkers and expand the limits of what is possible.

Some overarching concepts to keep in mind as you approach AI

  • Invite AI to the table– Try incorporating AI into the work you’re doing to see where it can benefit you most. AI is constantly being used in new and innovative ways and the best way to figure out if something will work is to try!
  • Know your goals before you start– Have a clear idea of the product you want before interacting with AI. This can help you craft a better, more efficient prompt and keep you in the driver’s seat. If the AI hasn’t given you what you’re looking for, tell it, but please do so politely (more on that later). This will also help keep you on track. If you are having AI create something for you that you don’t understand, that might be a sign that you are misusing AI.
  • Start with a good prompt- See our post on prompt engineering. AI works best when you give it a persona or a role to play and a task to complete.
  • Treat it like an intern– Have boring or repetitive work that needs to get done? Want a fresh new take on something? Try asking AI to do it. However, under NO circumstances should that version be released without having a supervisor (you) look it over very carefully.
  • Never tell the AI sensitive information– AI is terrible at keeping secrets. It has no moral judgment and is programmed to incorporate data inputs into its knowledge base. Never enter passwords, social security numbers, account numbers, etc into an AI-powered tool.

View our collection of AI related posts below:

Making AI work for you and your students
For Students: Using AI as a study guide
Prompt Engineering
Concerns regarding AI: ethical considerations
Fundamentals of AI: a deeper dive into how it works
Beyond Text-Based AI : AI for Creative Application
Choose the Right Generative AI Tool for Teaching and Research