Seminar plan for participants aged 16+ that introduces AI’s functioning and socio‑ethical challenges. It helps young people assess where conversational AI can be beneficial and where it risks reinforcing bias, manipulation, or dependency, encouraging critical and reflective use.
Why it matters for ENACT-AI
The resource directly supports AI literacy and critical thinking by helping young people understand how conversational AI works, experiment with AI tools, recognise their possibilities and limitations, critically evaluate AI-generated content, check sources and reflect on bias and stereotypes. It also emphasises that AI systems are human-made tools rather than neutral machines.
Learning outcomes
Participants will be able to:
explain basic concepts related to artificial intelligence and conversational AI;
describe basic principles of how AI systems such as ChatGPT work;
identify opportunities and limitations of generative AI;
formulate more effective prompts;
critically evaluate AI-generated texts and identify potential errors;
verify sources and recognise the importance of source attribution;
identify potential bias, prejudice and stereotypes reproduced by AI systems;
reflect on responsible and meaningful uses of AI in everyday life and education.
Suggested activity
“Can AI Write Better Than Us?”
Divide participants into small groups and give all groups the same topic. Each group uses ChatGPT to produce a short text and then analyses the results. Participants compare the texts in terms of accuracy, structure, originality, sources and possible bias. They fact-check selected claims and discuss what worked well, what went wrong and whether the AI-generated content can be trusted. The activity can conclude with a jointly developed “5 rules for critically using ChatGPT” checklist. This closely follows the practical methodology of the original seminar.