Eight Essential Principles offers a human-centered framework for navigating AI in education. Through real-world cases, it explores flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality—showing how educators can use AI intentionally while keeping human judgment, authorship, trust, and meaningful learning at the center.
AI Cinematic Realism for AI Filmmakers: The AICR Framework, Its Ideas, and Its Craft
What must a synthetic image achieve to behave like cinema? AI Cinematic Realism (AICR), presented whole for working AI filmmakers: the Ideational Frame, the three strata, a century of craft translated into the latent space, conscious assembly, the maker as moral agent, and the forty-point rubric.
AI Cinematic Realism (Second Edition): A Reader’s Map to the Book
AI Cinematic Realism reframes synthetic video beyond “looks real” or “deepfake” anxiety, asking instead whether an AI image feels true: coherent, intentional, ethical, and emotionally plausible. This reader’s map condenses the book’s framework, craft grammar, rubric, and pedagogy into a practical guide for makers, critics, and educators.
AI Cinematic Realism (AICR): Framework, Tools, and Structural Overview
AI Cinematic Realism (AICR) reframes realism in the post-camera era as felt coherence rather than photographic proof. This structural overview maps its philosophical foundations, three strata, craft grammar, four pillars, ethical commitments, and evaluation tools for analyzing and creating synthetic cinema with intention, credibility, and emotional truth.
Eight Essential Principles: A Model for Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI
The Eight Essential Principles offer a human-centered framework for AI adoption in education, helping educators and institutions ensure that AI supports flourishing, relationships, creativity, accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality rather than reducing learning to efficiency, automation, or convenience.
The Third Space: Locating AI Cinematic Realism
We are trapped in a binary debate: is AI video a tech demo or a deepfake? This piece proposes a "Third Space"—AI Cinematic Realism—where glitches become grammar and the goal shifts from fooling the eye to moving the heart.
Gutierrez & Lethcoe’s AI Essentials in Education (AI-Ed): Responsible AI Literacy Course for a Human-Centered Future
Developed by Gutierrez & Lethcoe for Washington’s community and technical colleges, AI Essentials in Education (AI-Ed) is a statewide Canvas course that helps faculty and staff use AI tools responsibly through five modules on ethics, collaboration, and human-centered innovation.
The AEIOU Ethos: Five Principles for Responsible AI in Higher Education
Artificial intelligence is transforming higher education — but responsible innovation requires more than new tools. The AEIOU Ethos outlines five practical principles for designing and governing AI with accessibility, equity, inclusion, openness, and universality at its core.
Exploring Human–AI Collaboration with Ethics and Insight
AI is not only technology — it’s part of the human story. At CHAIRES, we explore how human–AI collaboration can reflect our values, reshape creativity, and strengthen communities with ethics and insight.