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The Irreducibly Human curriculum: a graduate series on what AI can and can't do.

Foundation

BotSpeak: Fluency in AI Communication

Prompt engineering, model limitations, hallucination detection, and the rhetorical gap between human intent and machine output.

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Core

Causal Reasoning and World Modeling

Counterfactual thinking, interventionist reasoning, and the kind of "why" questions that statistical models cannot answer.

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Core

Ethical Play and Moral Imagination

Moral reasoning under uncertainty, value pluralism, and the limits of rule-based ethics.

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Core

AIMagineering: Creative Intelligence

Creative process, aesthetic judgment, conceptual blending, and the difference between novelty and genuine originality.

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Capstone

Embodied Teaching and Mentorship

Presence, improvisation, emotional attunement, and the embodied skills that make mentorship effective.

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Advanced

Conducting AI

The five supervisory capacities: plausibility auditing, problem formulation, tool orchestration, interpretive judgment, and executive integration.

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Practitioner

The AI Sherpa

A practitioner's guide for experiential learning — from design failure diagnosis through domain field guides.

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