Artificial Intelligence Literacy Seminar Held at OMU UZEM

The in-house seminar titled "Artificial Intelligence Literacy", organised by the Ondokuz Mayıs University Distance Education Centre (UZEM), was held with the participation of academic and administrative staff. The seminar offered a broad perspective, from the basic conceptual framework of artificial intelligence to its historical development, and from its current uses to its ethical and social responsibility dimensions.

The presentation, given by Lecturer İrfan Subaş, examined how artificial intelligence imitates human-like thinking, decision-making and reasoning; the philosophical and scientific foundations of artificial intelligence research were discussed through Alan Turing's question "Can machines think?" and the Turing Test. The historical development of artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence applications and the roles it plays today in education, health, transport and daily life were also conveyed with examples.

The seminar dwelt in particular on the opportunities that generative artificial intelligence tools offer and on the risks that can arise when these tools are used unthinkingly. The importance of a critical approach to artificial intelligence was stressed under headings such as bias, privacy, security and ethical responsibility, and attention was drawn to the critical role that media literacy and verification practices play in the digital age.

Under the heading "prompt engineering", one of the important parts of the presentation, the ways of obtaining effective and high-quality output from artificial intelligence were explained; good and bad examples made clear that designing a prompt is a skill in its own right. In this context it was stated that artificial intelligence should be positioned not as a tool that takes the place of people but as an assistant that supports learning and work.