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 08

The CAIL Sandbox plus standalone web apps the lab builds and hosts. Zero-retention infrastructure across the board.

Chat CAIL Sandbox Open-weight models for CUNY faculty, staff, and students. Zero retention, citable configs, CO₂-tracked sessions, classroom chatbots like AmigAI. chat.ailab.gc.cuny.edu Deploy Kale Deploy Publish web apps straight from a GitHub push. Cloudflare Workers stack with database and storage included, no server setup required. kale.cuny.qzz.io 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 Manuscripts Manifold Companion Multi-user OCR platform for manuscript digitization. Express, React, AWS Bedrock. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/manifold-companion
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 Workshop program AI Basics & Policy Statements Demystifies AI and helps instructors craft thoughtful, responsive classroom policies. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/workshops/ai-policy-basics Workshop program AI Literacy & Disciplinary Thinking Integrating AI literacy into disciplinary teaching and assignment design. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/workshops/disciplinary-thinking Workshop program 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 Workshop program 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
Open source 12

Source repositories for the lab's apps and platform, including the Tools Portal apps, accessibility pipelines, and affiliate research code.

Tools Portal agent-studio Source for the Agent Studio research assistant. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/agent-studio Tools Portal site-studio AI-assisted academic site builder powering the Site Studio app on the Tools Portal. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/site-studio Slide builder slide-maker Chat-driven slide builder with agentic chat panel, canvas preview, resource templates, and onscreen editing. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/slide-maker Manuscripts manifold-companion Multi-user OCR platform for manuscript digitization. Express, React, AWS Bedrock. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/manifold-companion Reading assistant marginalia Turns documents into conversational agents you can read with and ask questions of. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/marginalia Sandbox harness kale-workbench Sandbox-based web harness underpinning the lab's experimental workflows. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/kale-workbench Deploy cail-deploy Kale Deploy control plane, Cloudflare Workers stack, and agent integrations. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/cail-deploy Accessibility pdf-accessibility-app Execution-first PDF accessibility remediation app with an AWS Bedrock backend. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/pdf-accessibility-app Accessibility pdf-accessibility Serverless WCAG 2.1 AA pipeline for PDFs. AI-powered tagging, alt-text generation, and automated checks using Bedrock vision models. github.com/CUNY-AI-Lab/pdf-accessibility 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 Research em-model-organisms Research suite probing prompt-induced emergent misalignment across eight behavioral probes. github.com/zmuhls/em-model-organisms
Hugging Face 09
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 · Streamlit Historical OCR OCR pipeline tuned for historical documents and manuscript pages. huggingface.co/spaces/milwright/historical-ocr 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
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