What does informed consent look like for different uses of AI? Can informed consent be obtained when a doctor hits you with the news, at the start of your consultation, that they are using AI to transcribe it? Is informed consent even possible when we don't really understand AI?
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The difference between climate change and the threat of nuclear war
"I grew up under the threat of nuclear war. Carl Sagan told us it was inevitable. It didn't happen, and we're not worried about nuclear war anymore, so obviously panicking about climate change is the same - in a few years we'll realise there was nothing to be scared of. It's not the crisis we think it is." I completely understand the attractiveness of this theory. "We are under threat. That's scary. But we were under threat before and that turned out to be nothing, so this one will too, right? RIGHT? PLEASE??"
Using Data Science to investigate discrimination – Part 1, Mobility
What I love about projects like this is the opportunity for students to consider issues that don't normally impact them, and then quantify them, and come up with ways to improve those numbers.
Dr Melissa Humphries on statistics, social media, and many many things!
"Every decision that we make, whether we're thinking about climate change, poverty, you know happiness, agriculture... how do we feed everyone, how do we clothe them, all of that is underpinned by data and mathematics.
Teacher Guide to AI – please help!
We must educate ourselves, and our children, to be in a position to be rationally sceptical of technological hype. As a society, we need some inoculation against magical technological thinking. But where do teachers and schools start? Without a background in Artificial Intelligence, how can we expect teachers to inoculate our kids against the hype? How do we teach them to be more savvy and compassionate consumers and makers of technology? That’s where we come in. Laura Summers from Debias AI and Dr Linda McIver from the Australian Data Science Education Institute are putting together a teacher’s guide to AI, but we need your help to make sure the guide is exactly what you need. To that end we’ve put together a survey. We would love it if you could fill it out and share it with all of your teacher friends.