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Designing Ethical AI in Middle and High School Classrooms |
Explore and create : Creation lab
Sarah Judd
In this session, attendees will speed through AI4ALL's AI & Ethics Byte, a 10-hour curriculum offered for free. In the byte, students role play as heads of companies designing AI-based tools. As they learn about real-world AI ethics questions, they describe how their imagined product will answer them.
| Audience: | Teachers, Curriculum/district specialists, Principals/head teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
| Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | The only thing required is for attendees to be able to keep track of what they are working on. It may be helpful to have internet and/or Google Docs access to do this collaboratively |
| Topic: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Grade level: | 6-12 |
| Subject area: | Social studies, Computer science |
| ISTE Standards: | For Students: Digital Citizen
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| Disclosure: | The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session |
Everything we create has an effect on the world. This effect is often a combination of both positive and negative, and is distributed differently across different groups. This is particularly true for artificial intelligence, which is becoming increasingly present in our everyday lives. AI4ALL shapes students to be leaders in AI education, policy, research, and development. The world needs people in all of those job descriptions who are aware of the ethical implications of AI. Consideration of societal impacts and AI ethics' is one of the four pillars consistent across all AI4ALL programs, including AI4ALL Open Learning. AI4ALL integrates ethics into the entire Open Learning curriculum, which is a curriculum available online for high school teachers of all subjects to incorporate AI into their classrooms. The AI & Ethics Byte, in particular, is a deep dive lesson about the sorts of ethical questions designers should be aware of when building a new AI product. In the AI & Ethics Byte, students roleplay people designing an AI app for use in education, considering the ethical impacts of what they create. During this workshop, AI4ALL’s Open Learning team will take participants through a truncated version of the AI & Ethics Byte, so participants can experience first-hand how we encourage students to think of ethics at every level of design, sharing how the format works virtually. Attendees can use the activities and ideas in this workshop to embed ethics activities and discussions in their own classrooms; participants will be given the link to the whole curriculum, as well as the ability to join AI4ALL’s teacher community. While the activity was designed for use with high school students, middle school teachers may also find the material useful.
* Introduction to the speakers, AI4ALL and Open Learning, AI, machine learning and ethics - 5 minutes
* Explore an autograder that uses AI. Discuss who the autograder affects and how it affects them by building an ethics matrix for the autograder. - 10 minutes
* Assign groups to roleplay as an EdTech company that will be designing an app using AI to aid in an educational field. Review several tech companies’ published AI ethics statements. Discuss with the entire group of attendees. Each company group builds an ethics statement for their company. - 30 minutes
* Quick overview of the concepts of privacy, explainability, and fairness. In groups, decide how your company will address these issues. - 20 minutes
* Share your project with another group. Perform an “ethics audit” on the other group’s projects to identify what their design is missing and what it has done well. - 10 minutes
* Revise your project with this new information - 5 minutes
* Wrap up - Debrief thoughts and discussion of how people can use these ideas in their own classrooms, and what barriers they might face. Participants will be given access to the curriculum and a form to access our teacher community. - 10 minutes
https://tanginstitute.andover.edu/blog/2020/the-ethics-project-helping-software-developers-understand-and-address-ethical-obligations
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/technology-ethics/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ethicalCS?src=hashtag_click&f=live
Bio: Sarah Judd is the Curriculum Manager for Open Learning at AI4ALL. Sarah brings a track record of creating inclusive and culturally responsive CS curriculum in their roles as a Computer Science teacher in classrooms ranging from 2nd-10th grade, as a curriculum developer at Google CS First and Girls Who Code, and in after-school programs including Bootstrap and FIRST robotics. Sarah has also worked as a web engineer, and holds a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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