This poster session will examine the use of activities that incorporate free, online AI applications in a Japanese, intermediate EFL, second-year university classroom. It will focus on both teacher and student experiences. The presenter will report on the students’ use of AI tools to develop reading, listening, speaking, and researching skills. Specifically, activities described include having students creating their own reading and listening texts with ChatGPT and Luvvoice.com, co-writing texts with ChatGPT, and working with AI applications to scaffold their research and planning for presentation projects. This poster session highlights challenges and successes encountered during the process of integrating these AI activities. Specifically, concerns relating to ethical issues, inaccuracies, and misinformation associated with using AI and how the students were guided in these areas. Selected teacher and student reflections will be highlighted to show key moments of success, frustration, and the pedagogical puzzles that emerged in piloting these AI-supported activities. The ultimate goal in sharing this information is to stimulate discussions with audience members so that they might reflect on their own teaching contexts, and to exchange practical ideas so that teachers can prevail, rather than fail, in their exploration of AI as an effective tool for language development.