Robust and Improved Thoughtful AI 2025-2026
Students: Alina Sainju, Hannah Yoo, Kyle Houston, Monica Zhang | Advisor: Kenneth C. Arnold
Academic Year: 2025-2026
Project Overview
Building upon the foundation established by the AI for Writers 2024-2025 project, our core objective for this academic year is to enhance the robustness, usability, and integration capabilities of the Thoughtful AI system for the Calvin University community as well as external research collaborators.
We envision a reliable writing tool that can serve as a valuable resource for the Calvin community as well as a platform that supports other AI researchers' visions. We believe that this Thoughtful AI project represents a meaningful step toward responsible stewardship of artificial intelligence.
Key Project Goals:
- Comprehensive system testing
- Backend pipeline improvement
- Integration of a sample external tool as a starting point for future collaboration
Timeline
Fall 2025
Identify and fix currently visible bugs and known system vulnerabilities
Evaluate LLM responses using best practices
Spring 2026
Integrate our tool into Google Docs
Integrate Posthog and evaluate system
UI/UX changes for user-friendliness
Team
Alina Sainju
Team Member
Hannah Yoo
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Kyle Houston
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Monica Zhang
Team Member
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Kenneth C. Arnold Advisor for the Thoughtful AI Lab and its associated senior projects at Calvin University.