How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives Lesson Overview

Essential Question

What are the impacts of AI bias?

Lesson Overview

Just like people, artificial intelligence tools can make mistakes. That could mean simply mistaking tomatoes for apples. But the impacts of AI bias can often be much more serious. AI tools can end up recirculating harmful stereotypes and inequities within society. In this lesson, students will think critically about AI bias and how it affects the world.

Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to:

Understand that AI bias can impact people in different ways.
Reflect on the negative impacts of AI bias.

Approximate Time Needed: 20 min

Vocabulary

AI bias – when an AI tool makes a decision that is wrong or problematic because it learned from training data that didn't treat all people, places, and things accurately

training data – the information given to an AI to help it learn how to do specific tasks

Lesson Resources

Lesson Plan
Lesson Slides
Trick-or-Treat AI Handout - Scenario and discussion activity

Student Version Teacher Version

Lesson Plan

How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives _ Common Sense Education.pdf

Lesson Slides

Grades 6-12 - AI Literacy - How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives - Lesson Slides

Handout - Student Version

Grades 6-12 - AI Literacy - Trick-or-Treat AI - Student Handout

Handout - Teacher Version

Grades 6-12 - AI Literacy - Trick-or-Treat AI - (TEACHER VERSION)

Link to: Lesson 6: How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives

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