Custom Bot Design with BoodleBox

Welcome to the resource hub for our session, Custom Bot Design with BoodleBox

Bot Stress Testing

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Engage in rigorous stress testing before deployment. Use this stress testing guide.

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Experience Dr. Charlena Miller’s Empathy Explorer Custom Bot

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This bot is trained to create experiential simulations for students to understand people's differing feelings and needs and develop empathetic responses.

Empathy Explorer | Bots | BoodleBox

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Engage with the “Philadelphia Gambit” Coordinated Bots

https://box.boodle.ai/s/f4e0ca14-e86d-4da4-a400-898b9dbe210b

“Jesse” Persona Bot Training Materials

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In this session, you learned about “Jesse,” a persona bot created by Dr. Charlena Miller. The takes on the role of a student peer who has four core concerns about artificial intelligence: job displacement, environmental demands, cognitive offloading, and safety risk. Its training is purposefully light on research. Students must practice active engagement through intentional listening, paraphrasing, researching and sharing evidence-based facts, and maintaining authenticity and opennes. The bot is not argumentative; the bot is concerned and needs facts.

Learning Objective: Focus on constructive dialogue over winning an argument.

These are the four sources used for training “Jesse.”

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

Key Questions on Energy and AI

AI International Safety Report 2026

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking

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