This fall, I have wanted to infuse my course with some kind of AI-awareness activity with my Writing students. I found an article that discussed how much water is used for AI training and asked students to read it and then do an inventory of their own water usage. The results have been really interesting. Many students reported that they never use AI, but almost every student was surprised to discover the water costs of AI usage.

Here’s the prompt with a link to the form.

First read the article on AI and water usage to understand this assignment. ( PDF of Water Usage Article )Then name a writing project of any kind you have written recently–either using AI or not using AI. Fill out the form here so we can get a baseline understanding of our use of water when we use AI.