Updates and reflections from the CUNY AI Lab on building AI infrastructure, tools, and teaching resources for the City University of New York.https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/saying-please-to-an-llm/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/saying-please-to-an-llm/A CAIL Fellow spends three months load-testing open-weight models in the CAIL Sandbox, tries to build a citation tool inside the chat, and finds out what it takes to get it working.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTfellowscritical-ai-literacyopen-weightsJonathan B. Torohttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cail-fellows-2026-27/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cail-fellows-2026-27/The CUNY AI Lab is seeking graduate student Fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are due September 22, 2026.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTannouncementsfellowsCUNY AI Labhttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/fall-2026-workshops/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/fall-2026-workshops/Registration is open for our Fall 2026 workshop series, featuring a three-part track on building digital projects with AI-assisted coding, a three-part track on customizing models in the CUNY AI Lab Sandbox, and three drop-in co-working sessions.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTannouncementsworkshopsCUNY AI Labhttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-login-sso/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-login-sso/How CUNY Login works with Lab access, and what to do when sign-in does not get you in.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTguidesCUNY AI Labhttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/situating-ai-literacy/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/situating-ai-literacy/CAIL Fellow Ian G. Williams revisits his February 2026 essay on AI literacy — first published on the GC Digital Fellows' blog — and how it connects to Daniel Greene's Access Doctrine and structural views of the digital divide.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTfellowscritical-ai-literacyIan G. Williamshttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/running-on-open-weights/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/running-on-open-weights/Why the CUNY AI Lab runs nearly all of its tools on open-weight models — what open weights are, what frontier models cost to run, and how open models have closed the capability gap.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen-weightsinfrastructureCUNY AI Labhttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/translating-shakespeare/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/translating-shakespeare/A CUNY instructor designs a Shakespeare translation assignment in the CUNY AI Lab Sandbox, using a custom model seeded with deliberate errors to teach students to critically evaluate AI-generated interpretations.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTteachingcritical-ai-literacyEllen Siyuan Panhttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/thinkwith/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/thinkwith/A CAIL workshop participant vibe-codes a tool that gives composition students real-time feedback on whether their paragraphs genuinely 'think with' a text — and reflects on what that means for the value of a humanities education.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTworkshopsai-assisted-codingteachingNicole Walkerhttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/frankentimer/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/frankentimer/A CAIL Fellow reflects on building a personal Pomodoro timer through AI-assisted prototyping in the Spring 2026 workshop series — and on the ambivalence of doing so.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTfellowsworkshopsai-assisted-codingIan G. Williamshttps://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/welcome/https://ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/welcome/Why the CUNY AI Lab is starting a blog, and what to expect from posts here.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTannouncementsCUNY AI Lab