This unit steps back from individual domains to ask what patterns recur across all of them: labor, expertise, authority, dependency, and risk. It is a comparative synthesis, using the Field Guide’s deployment patterns and ethical frameworks to move from explanation to judgment.

We then turn to political economy: who controls AI once firms, infrastructure, data, compute, and labor are concentrated, and how frontier-model economics shape what gets built and who benefits.

A closing career bridge asks what responsibilities you carry inside organizations that adopt AI, including the possibility that delay, refusal, or non-adoption can be responsible choices rather than obstacles to innovation.

Fall 2026 dates: Thu, Nov 5 - Tue, Nov 12 (includes University Senior Symposium, Nov 17)

Meeting sequence:

1. What Patterns Recur Across Domains?
2. Who Controls AI?
3. What Responsibilities Do People Have Inside Organizations Adopting AI?

By the end of this unit, you should be able to compare deployment patterns across domains, describe how power concentrates in AI’s political economy, and articulate your own responsibilities inside an adopting organization.