Description

How can AI help you tell a story? In this workshop you'll learn where AI works (and where it doesn’t), and how to become more successful at three different levels of the storytelling process: brainstorming, development, and iteration. You’ll leave with a new tool to enhance your creativity, generate innovative story ideas, and incorporate user feedback to refine your stories. We'll look at many examples of stories across different situations—written and oral, speeches and presentations, emails and social media, as tools of persuasion and inspiration—and discover how AI can complement, not replace, the power of human storytelling. Through directed exercises and collaborative learning, this workshop can be useful to any level of practitioner, offering a hands-on experience with live-action AI-assisted writing practice and immediate feedback.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
  • Experience the potential of AI through live demonstrations, practice, and immediate feedback
  • Understand where AI will help you (and where it won't)
  • Take away concrete techniques for crafting effective prompts
  • Master the basics of “prompt engineering” and the follow-up prompt
  • Take ethical considerations into account when using AI in storytelling, including how to avoid biases and potential negative outcomes
  • Learn how to incorporate feedback to refine your output
  • Enhance your creativity and innovation across a variety of story types
  • Identify common pitfalls in AI and the strategies to mitigate them

Duration

6 hours

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Instructor

Arthur Thuot is the facilitator at StoryCorp, a company that delivers storytelling workshops to business and government. Previously, he served as a project director for a media agency in Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. He holds an MFA from the University of Florida and an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.