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Katherine Chiou is an Assistant Professor and archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. She serves as Co-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Teaching Enhancement Initiative, Principal Investigator of the Ancient People and Plants Laboratory, and the Assistant Director of Water Social Science for the CONSERVE Research Group. In addition to teaching and research on archaeology, foodways, plant domestication, and inequality in the past and present, she works on ethical reasoning, codes and policies, and responsible conduct of research (RCR) in education in partnership with multiple professional societies and is a longtime organizer of national and international archaeology Ethics Bowl competitions. Lawrence Cappello is an Assistant Professor of U.S. Legal & Constitutional History at the University of Alabama. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US & CIPM) and serves as Co-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Teaching Enhancement Initiative. Author of None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age (University of Chicago Press) and On Privacy: Twenty Lessons for Practical People (Hachette: Workman Publishing), he is a graduate of New York City public schools and the City University of New York. Nathan Loewen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Faculty Technology Liaison for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama. Loewen is an executive member of the REL Digital Lab, a research space for digital and computational approaches to religious studies. He co-directs the Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion initiative, whose international collaborations aim to broaden the field’s analytical scope. Loewen recently co-edited Diversifying Philosophy of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2023) and is the author of Beyond the Problem of Evil: Derrida and Anglophone Philosophy of Religion (Lexington, 2018).