AWAAI Learn & Lead with Soo-Jin Lee

​Judgment, Not Prompting, Is the Real Skill: Artists As Power Users of AI

​Artists didn’t become power users because of AI.
AI just revealed they already were.

​In this AWAAI session, playwright Soo-Jin Lee pulls back the curtain on how artists actually work with AI when the goal isn’t speed or automation, but quality. She’ll walk through how she uses multiple LLMs for judgment, taste, and creative constraint treating models not as oracles, but as collaborators that must be evaluated, challenged, and shaped.

​One highlight of the talk is her approach to vibe-coding a digital dramaturg: an AI critic that reviews scenes against an outline, flags misalignments, and pushes the work toward coherence rather than novelty. What emerges is a powerful reframing of “AI skill.” It’s not about finding the perfect prompt. It’s about knowing when something works, when it doesn’t, and why.

​Uvika Sharma and Padmini Soni are excited to host Soo-Jin Lee for this conversation, which speaks directly to the kind of AI literacy we care about grounded, human, and driven by judgment rather than hype.

​This session is especially relevant for anyone tired of shallow AI demos and interested in what real expertise looks like when humans stay firmly in the loop.

​If you care about AI as a creative partner and believe discernment matters more than shortcuts, this conversation is worth your time.