Critical AI Literacy Library Guide for Instructors, LaGuardia Community College

We also offer a Scholarly Communications Guide to AI for researchers.

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This guide focuses on generative AI. We cover only AI that can generate text, images, video, music, or speech. Examples: ChatGPT, CoPilot, Midjourney, Runway.

Last updated on 16 December 2025.

We aim to keep this guide up to date. But since new developments are happening so quickly, it's possible this may be out of date when you read it.

According to a 2020 paper, by Long & Magerko, who synthesized a variety of interdisciplinary literature into a set of core competencies:

AI literacy is the ability to:

• critically evaluate AI technologies
• communicate and collaborate effectively with AI
• use AI as a tool, online, at home, and in the workplace

Contact us (Ann Matsuuchi, amatsuuchi@lagcc.cuny.edu) or look up the librarian for your college/department.