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# ai-lab-week-of-20250908


## updates/things

- Marlon met with AI BGFs (at least 2 of them) they are interested in
    - workshop series (AI Labs) for grad students
        - potentially first one on vibe coding data visualizations (or ai-assisted coding at least)
- Marlon met with [VPAL](https://www.vpal.harvard.edu/) about a series of 3 workshops on AI for Media Production (W 3-5). We will meet up with Mary from VPAL on Wednesday to share ideas (see below)

## Days

### Monday

- 9am, meet with Chris and share 
    - IRB draft
        - DP & JY interventions are: Weekly surveys, classroom observations, interview/focus groups (with volunteers)
        - Data from Chris: Quiz, video recordings of classes, AI chatbot logs
    - Informed consent form (for students and the teaching team)
    - Survey questions draft
- 10am, Sharad meeting about [Ping Pong](https://pingpong.hks.harvard.edu/about) (pedagogy focus)
    - Harvard FAS will be using this bot created at HKS (we are meeting about the pedagogical support/prep for this)


### Tuesday

- 2:30pm Gen Ed course with potential AI-enhanced oral activity/assignment
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### Wednesday

- 10:30am Sociology course consultation (MW, JY, DH)
- 11:15am meeting with Mary from VPAL about AI Lab Media Edition
- 3-5pm: held for AI Lab, we should plan in here


### Thursday

- 9am: AI meeting--Marlon mention voice mode
    - potential newsletter prototype
- 4pm: Dean comes to LL to learn about LL and AI
    - let's read his stuff (or listen to NotebookLM at least)


### Friday

- 11am: Bok / Academic Tech collab on colabs
- 1pm: Secret AI Lab meeting

## Build/Research

- film a couple segments
- vibe coding test
- plan AI Lab meetings 
    - media initially
    - vibe coding Data Vis potentially
    - translation python notebooks (TS280, DCI, DARTH)
- AI Lab slackbots
    - posting 
- newsletter prototype
- python notebooks 
- interview bot, exam bot
    - oral exam research (AI-augmented)