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PREPARING CHILDREN TO BE CONSCIENTIOUS CONSUMERS AND DESIGNERS OF AI TECHNOLOGIES Daniella DiPaola, Blakeley H. Payne, and Cynthia Breazeal

  • “Without knowing how these AI systems work, students are unable to make choices about how they would like to inter- act with them.”
  • AI is very much part of children’s technology landscape, and it has implications for how they navigate their digital world.
  • If chil- dren are able to use AI, they must be able to identify it, know how it works, and understand that they have the agency to change it.
  • We need to give students these skills so that they are empowered to decide how they would like AI to fit into their lives.
  • To meet this need, we developed a curriculum with three primary goals:
    1. Students should be conscientious consumers of AI.
    1. Students should be ethical designers of AI.
    1. Students should be able to participate in democratic discussions around AI.
  • Given the pervasive impact AI is having on the global economy and society, for good or for bad, it is imperative to educate an AI literate citizenry. If we’re to educate and train the next generation of AI makers, we need to empower them with the tools and conceptual frameworks to design these systems ethically.
  • Research suggests that isolating ethics from technical content often leads students to perceive ethics as unrelated to their technical studies
  • Find resources for the workshop and curriculum authors developed online at [https://bit.ly/mit-ai-ethics](https://bit.ly / mit-ai-ethics)

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