Irreducibly Human: Conducting AI — The Five Supervisory Capacities course syllabus

Graduate course syllabus for engineers and AI-adjacent professionals at Northeastern University who can operate AI tools fluently but cannot yet explain rigorously why their outputs should be trusted. Develops the five supervisory capacities no algorithm possesses — plausibility auditing, problem formulation, tool orchestration, interpretive judgment, and executive integration — culminating in an adversarial Plausibility Audit of the student