10 Step AI Challenge
Created by librarians, the 10 Step AI Challenge provides an excellent entry point for students and faculty eager to engage with generative AI in meaningful and practical ways. Each activity combines hands-on exploration with reflection, encouraging participants to think critically about how AI can support research, teaching, and creative work. With flexible, self-paced challenges covering text, image, and multimedia generation, the guide makes it easy to learn, experiment, and consider the ethical dimensions of AI in academic life. This resource serves both as an introduction to AI tools and a springboard for deeper exploration.
You’ll work with tools that generate text, images, and other media, while examining their role in research, teaching, and creative work at UVA. Through these activities, you will:
- Become familiar with generative AI tools available at UVA and beyond
- Explore how AI can support written, visual, and multimedia content creation
- Reflect on the ethical use of AI in scholarship, instruction, and academic life
Each challenge includes four sections:
Learn (background information),
Challenge (hands-on use of AI),
Reflect (apply and evaluate what you’ve learned), and
Learn More (for those wishing to take a deeper dive into the topic)