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4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019: This article discusses why "Education focused on deeper learning and understanding of this transformative technology will be critical to furthering the debate and ensuring positive progress that protects social good." 01-28-19
A.I. Policy Is Tricky. From Around the World, They Came to Hash It Out: A group of senior policy makers from 36 countries around the world recently met to discuss AI. Their task? To make recommendations by this summer regarding AI policies. 1-20-19
AI Social Good Guide - Google: The purpose for this guide is to help nonprofits and social enterprises learn how to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to social, humanitarian and environmental challenges. N.D.
Artificial Intelligence Has a Problem With Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It: We often assume machines are neutral, but they aren’t. Read this article to learn more about research on this topic. 2-7-19
CBSE to introduce artificial intelligence courses in classes 8, 9, 10: “Aiming to make school students well-versed in technologies shaping the future, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce artificial intelligence as an elective subject.“ This effort is targeted towards grades 8, 9, and 10. 1-3-19
Creativity and Learning in The Era of AI: How we can all work together to make sure that all children, from all backgrounds, have opportunities to develop as creative thinkers — so that they can thrive in the era of AI. 9-9-18
Don't Believe Every AI You See: M.C. Elish and danah boyd take a look at AI and ethics. 11-13-18
Even If AI Can Cure Loneliness - Should It?: AI apps and devices are being developed to help people fulfill their needs for companionship. Is this a good idea? Why or why not? 11-9-18
Future of Work with AI: Big picture overview of how AI will impact our future of work, school and how we learn. N.D.
Google AI Privacy document: Gives educators a plan for evaluating an AI tool for education to see if it is following best practices. N.D.
How Social Sciences Can Contribute to the Development of Ethical AI: This blog posts discusses ways that social sciences and diversity in AI teams can be critical in resolving AI-bias issues. 08-21-18
How the Enlightenment Ends: In this article, Henry Kissinger asks, "What would be the impact on history of self-learning machines—machines that acquired knowledge by processes particular to themselves, and applied that knowledge to ends for which there may be no category of human understanding?" 4-18
Institute for Ethical AI: An interesting read about a new institute that will investigate how AI can be designed and deployed ethically within education. 10-23-18
Making a path to ethical, socially-beneficial artificial intelligence: A review of panel discussions that seek to use AI ethically and for the good of humanity. 3-5-19
Meet the Woman Teaching Empathy to AI: An interview with Danielle Krettek. She's the Founder and Principal of Google's Empathy Lab, where she leads a team attempting to train empathy into Google’s algorithms. 5-29-18
MIT AI Ethics Education Curriculum: Written for middle schoolers, this document includes a set of activities, teacher guides, assessments, materials, and more to assist educators in teaching about the ethics of artificial intelligence.
MIT Is Using Machine Learning to Sniff Out Fake News: MIT has developed a tool that uses machine learning to identlfy sites likely to publish fake news. 11-10-18
OECD Principles on AI: In May 2019 the OECD released a set of "AI principles" that governments should adhere to, and recommendations for how to support these principles. 5-19
OECD Report on Artificial Intelligence in Society: In June 2019 the OECD released a report called "Artificial Intelligence in Society" that addresses the economic and social impacts resulting from the continued development and deployment of AI technologies.
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Study Finds Gender, Skin-type Bias in Commercial AI Systems: Facial recognition systems are only as good as the data sets used to populate them. 2-12-18
Things to consider for AI developers and entrepreneurs: This is a short list of things for developers and entrepreneurs to consider with AI. These have connections with what is happening with AI in schools. 12-26-18
We Need an FDA for Algorithms: As we explore the possibilities of AI, we need to insure that algorithms are transparent, regulated, and forgiving of the flawed creatures that converse with them. 11-1-18