In this 5-minute lighting talk, I will present an overview of the curriculum I developed contextualising AI and critically examine how students engaged with a range of issues.

Using structured dialogues and research-led, ethical manifestos, I will demonstrate how students moved from passive to active, creative users of AI technology. I will show how treating use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as a form of ‘metascience’, encourages students to analyse results, inspires them to interrogate bias, inaccuracy, and limitations of the software. Welcomed by students, this curriculum provided space to navigate anxieties surrounding generative AI’s impact on craft, originality, future employability, its potentially harmful outcomes, and the environmental cost. This short presentation provides actionable recommendations for educators navigating the possibilities and risks of AI and wanting to inspire critical thinking and agency with their own students.