Resources & Further Reading
Welcome to the People Friendly Educators Guide to AI Resources and Further Reading page. In addition to the links throughout the book, we’ve collected resources here to help in the classroom, and/or further your own understanding.
This page will grow and change along with the Guide, and the state of the technology, so keep checking back!
Ethics and Fairness Resources
Possibly the most important organisation in the Ethics and Fairness of AI space is
https://www.dair-institute.org/
The Distributed AI Research Institute, founded by Timnit Gebru. In particular, their Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 Podcast is an excellent source of lively discussions on both the tech and the ethics of AI.
Their episode on AI in Education is particularly relevant.
My co-author Laura Summers’ Ethics Litmus Test is an excellent resource for AI and for technology in general, and a wonderful tool for discussing the ethics of technology in class.
Laura’s Sweet Summer Child Score is a wonderful exercise for Senior Secondary Digital Technologies, Computing, and Computer Science classes to use to consider the possible harms of new technologies.
Linda has a blog post on the issue of consent and AI.
Awful AI is a list of scary/concerning uses of AI.
Mapping Fairness in AI is a great exercise for senior classes, from Laura Summers
Data and AI comics – these are gold!
BlackMirror Brainstorm – a useful exercise for considering the potential harms of new products/technology.
You look like a thing and I love you – Janelle Shane. An excellent book making sense of AI and our interactions with it.
The AI Weirdness blog, also from Janelle Shane. Thoughtful reflections on AI.
Understanding AI Resources
What are the 3 types of AI? A guide to narrow, general, and super artificial intelligence
There are a number of blog posts on the ADSEI site about AI. Here are some of the most relevant:
There is no existential threat, ChatGPT is an evolutionary dead end