AI provides an unmatched opportunity for both accelerating and degrading high quality learning. Institutions of higher education must adapt by providing guidance to faculty and students across all departments; integrating AI literacy into the larger curricula rather than only covering it in specific computer science courses. In order to most effectively plan and evaluate these actions, we argue institutions implement a capabilities-based framework that understands faculty and students in terms of their capacities and functions in relation to existing college missions to produce socially and intellectually responsible graduates. The four capabilities—Access, Association, Involvement, and Literacy—give faculty, staff, and students a shared scaffolding and vocabulary for preserving the cognitive work genuine learning requires. We illustrate this recommendation through concrete examples across disciplines and work with the audience to brainstorm how they can apply this framework to their own classrooms and institutions.
