"This summer, Blakeley Payne, a graduate student at MIT, ran a week-long course on ethics in artificial intelligence for 10-14 year olds. In one exercise, she asked the group what they thought YouTube’s recommendation algorithm was used for.
“To get us to see more ads,” one student replied.
“These kids know way more than we give them credit for,” Payne said.
Payne created an open source, middle-school AI ethics curriculum
to make kids aware of how AI systems mediate their everyday lives, from
YouTube and Amazon’s Alexa to Google search and social media. By
starting early, she hopes the kids will become more conscious of how AI
is designed and how it can manipulate them. These lessons also help
prepare them for the jobs of the future, and potentially become AI
designers rather than just consumers."
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