Graduate Center · City University of New York

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A library of everything the lab publishes, socials, the CAIL Sandbox and apps, faculty resources, workshops, Hugging Face, open-source repos, presentations, and projects from lab affiliates.

Programs 02
CALI Critical AI Literacy Institute A Google.org-funded institute for CUNY faculty and students examining how generative AI shapes knowledge production, workshop series, open teaching resources, and cross-disciplinary faculty collaborations. criticalai.commons.gc.cuny.edu CCNY PD CCNY Professional Development Multi-session AI professional development series at City College, system prompts, knowledge collections, and skills & tools for faculty and staff. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/system-prompting
Apps 05

Standalone web apps on the Tools Portal, zero-retention infrastructure, no login for most.

AI Assistant Agent Studio AI research assistant for exploring data, searching academic databases, and creating visualizations. tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/agent-studio AI Assistant Site Studio Build academic websites with AI assistance, portfolios, CVs, and research pages through conversation. tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/site-studio Media Image Description Generate captions, alt-text, and detailed image descriptions using AI vision models. tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/alt-text Media Audio Transcription Upload audio or video files and get accurate transcriptions with timestamps using Whisper. tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/asr Media Document OCR Extract text from PDFs and scanned images with high-accuracy optical character recognition. tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/ocr
Resources 02
Teach@CUNY Teach@CUNY AI Toolkit Companion to the Teach@CUNY Handbook, guidelines, FAQs, model-use policies, and assignment adaptation strategies for faculty. aitoolkit.commons.gc.cuny.edu Docs Sandbox Documentation Support documentation and tutorials for teachers and researchers using the CAIL Sandbox. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/sandbox-docs
Workshops 12
CCNY PD · Workshop 1 Composing System Prompts CCNY professional development session on writing effective system prompts for Open WebUI models in the Sandbox. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/system-prompting CCNY PD · Workshop 2 Curating Knowledge Collections CCNY professional development session on building and curating knowledge collections in the Sandbox. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/knowledge-collections CCNY PD · Workshop 3 Skills & Tools CCNY professional development session on skills, tools, and agentic workflows in the Sandbox. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/skills-tools Faculty development AI Basics & Policy Statements Demystifies AI and helps instructors craft thoughtful, responsive classroom policies. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/workshops/ai-policy-basics Faculty development AI Literacy & Disciplinary Thinking Integrating AI literacy into disciplinary teaching and assignment design. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/workshops/disciplinary-thinking Faculty development AI Literacy & Game-Based Learning Game-based strategies for teaching with and about AI, including choose-your-own-adventure prompting. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/workshops/game-based-learning Faculty development Prompting in Praxis LLM concepts and hands-on prompting techniques for academics and instructors. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/workshops/prompting-in-praxis Game-based Critical Play with LLMs Game mechanics, including Jeopardy-LM, used to surface AI limitations and prompt critical reflection. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/critical-play CALI Spotlight Creative Coding with Generative AI Creative-coding triangle (rules, randomness, interpretation) and prompt anatomy through hands-on constrained generation. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/creative-coding Vibe coding Vibe Coding How-To Operational instructions and how-to guides for AI-assisted development tools. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/vibe-coding-how-to Vibe coding Co-Developing with Generative AI Reveal.js workshop introducing command-line agents for AI-powered development. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/Vibe-Coding-Workshop Vibe coding Vibe Coding Prototypes A showcase of prototypes produced during vibe coding sessions. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/vibe-coding-prototypes Gen dev Gen Dev Foundations Foundational concepts for generative development practice. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/gen-dev-foundations
Hugging Face 12
Org CUNYGradCenter The CUNY Graduate Center organization on Hugging Face, shared spaces and models. huggingface.co/CUNYGradCenter Collection Critical AI Literacy Institute · CALI Curated collection of CALI-related spaces and resources. huggingface.co/collections/milwright/critical-ai-literacy-institute-cali-gc-cuny Model · fine-tune qwen-8b-dialog-v1 Qwen3-8B dialogue fine-tune (GGUF) trained on UltraChat-style conversational data. huggingface.co/milwright/qwen-8b-dialog-v1 Model · LoRA cloze-reader-qwen3.5-0.8b-lora LoRA adapter on Qwen3.5-0.8B for cloze reading comprehension and vocabulary tasks. huggingface.co/milwright/cloze-reader-qwen3.5-0.8b-lora Space · Gradio ChatUI Helper Create customizable AI chat interfaces for Hugging Face Spaces. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/chatui-helper Space · Docker Cloze Reader Game-based cloze-deletion reader that blanks words from public-domain passages. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/cloze-reader Space · Docker Cloze Leaderboard Leaderboard tracking model performance on cloze reading-comprehension benchmarks. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/cloze-leaderboard Space · Streamlit Historical OCR OCR pipeline tuned for historical documents and manuscript pages. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/historical-ocr Space · Gradio Chat Adventure Games Choose-your-own-adventure games powered by chat models, companion to the game-based learning workshop. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/chat-adventure-games Space · Streamlit Reddit Dashboard Streamlit dashboard over a research corpus of CUNY-community Reddit threads. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/reddit-dashboard Space · Gradio AmigAI · SPAN 105 Spanish-language educational chatbot for heritage and non-native learners, co-designed with Spanish faculty around culturally responsive pedagogy. huggingface.co/spaces/CUNYGradCenter/AmigAI-SPAN105 Space · Gradio Español Hunter Spanish-language exploratory space hosted under the CUNYGradCenter org. huggingface.co/spaces/CUNYGradCenter/Espanol_Hunter
Open source 06

Lab-built repositories, work-in-progress and stable utilities published under the CUNY AI Lab organization.

Slide builder Slide Maker Chat-driven slide builder, agentic chat panel, canvas preview, resource templates, and onscreen editing. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/slide-maker Reading assistant Marginalia Turns documents into conversational agents you can read with and ask questions of. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/marginalia OCR · manuscripts Manifold Companion Multi-user OCR platform for manuscript digitization, Express, React, AWS Bedrock. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/manifold-companion Accessibility PDF Accessibility Execution-first PDF accessibility remediation app with an AWS Bedrock backend. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/pdf-accessibility-app Accessibility A11y Check PDF accessibility and formatting checker, built for dissertation workflows. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/a11y-check Open WebUI filter OWU Carbon Emission Open WebUI filter that estimates energy use and CO₂ emissions for remote LLM calls. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/OWU-carbon-emission
Presentations 02
NARST 2026 CALI · NARST 2026 Critical AI Literacy Institute presentation deck for NARST 2026. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/cali-narst Brooklyn College CALI · Brooklyn College Critical AI Literacy Institute campus presentation, Brooklyn College. cuny-ai-lab.github.io/cali-brooklyn
Ancillary projects 11

Recent individual projects from lab affiliates, Zach Muhlbauer (zmuhls / milwright), Stephen Zweibel (szweibel), and Stefano Morello (smorello87).

Zach em-model-organisms Research suite probing prompt-induced emergent misalignment across eight behavioral probes (deception, sycophancy, harmful advice, and more). github.com/zmuhls/em-model-organisms Zach Scrolling for Godot A web-based absurdist scrollplay between human, chatbot, and system messages, after Beckett. zmuhls.github.io/scrolling-for-godot Zach Jeopardy-LM Next.js Jeopardy emulator with multi-provider LLM clue generation, custom categories, multiplayer, and a Final Jeopardy round. zmuhls.github.io/jeopardy-lm Zach Cloze Reader FastAPI cloze-deletion reader over 70k Project Gutenberg texts, running open-weight Gemma locally with adjustable difficulty. reader.inference-arcade.com Steve haggle Fantasy shop simulation game with LLM-powered customers, runs Llama-3.1 in the browser via WebLLM with structured JSON generation. github.com/szweibel/haggle Steve library-agent AI research assistant for library collection development. github.com/szweibel/library-agent Steve obsidian-agent-plugin AI agent powered by the Claude Agent SDK for organizing and searching Obsidian vaults. github.com/szweibel/obsidian-agent-plugin Steve site-agent Turn any website or domain into a Claude-powered Q&A agent. github.com/szweibel/site-agent Stefano zotero-autofill Zotero 7 plugin that auto-fills missing metadata using LLMs plus Open Library and Google Books. github.com/smorello87/zotero-autofill Stefano NML Transcription · macOS Audio transcription tool built for New Media Lab workflows on macOS. github.com/smorello87/NML-transcription-MacOS Stefano Punk Archiving Toolkit An open framework of guides, templates, and tools for building subcultural and community digital archives. github.com/smorello87/punk-archiving-toolkit