Selected essay · The Conversation
Can you trust
the answer?
A practical way to examine the explanations AI gives us, and decide what needs a closer look.
Read the essayWriter · Researcher · University leader
How AI changes
what we know.
And how we learn, exercise judgment, and decide what thinking to do for ourselves.
I’m Leo S. Lo. I explore these questions through research, teaching, and writing, and develop practical approaches to AI literacy.
Dean of Libraries and University Librarian · University of Virginia
Special Advisor to the Provost on AI Literacy · Professor of Education by courtesy
Writings have appeared in
A few places to begin
Questions into practice.
Can you trust
A published approach
Read an AI answer with care.
Classify. Assess. Review. Enhance. Four moves for examining and improving an AI answer.
Explore CARETeaching & research in progress
What thinking
are you delegating?
In my UVA seminar, students examine their habits of thinking, judgment, and AI use.
Explore the teachingWork in use
Ideas others build on.
AI literacy education
Informing institutional approaches.
My Universal AI Literacy Framework has informed AI literacy frameworks and guidance at Penn State, Queen’s University, and Clemson University.
See how institutions draw on the frameworkCLEAR’s reach
200+ institutional guides worldwide
As reported in my UVA profile. Explore selected examples of CLEAR in university library guides.
See CLEAR in practice
Speaking & workshops
Bring the questions
into the room.
Conversations about AI should help people make better decisions. I speak with educators, institutional leaders, and professional communities about knowledge, judgment, and change.
Selected speaking hosts & events
