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The document discusses an activity where students imagine ways that artificial intelligence could change the world. It outlines having students choose an AI solution, how it would help people, and potential unintended consequences. The document also provides context on machine learning and its applications like image and emotion recognition.

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Artificial Intelligence Research

The document discusses an activity where students imagine ways that artificial intelligence could change the world. It outlines having students choose an AI solution, how it would help people, and potential unintended consequences. The document also provides context on machine learning and its applications like image and emotion recognition.

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Imagine Ways that Artificial

Intelligence Could Change the


World

Introduction
AI is all around us and changing our world—often for the better, but sometimes with
unintended consequences. In this activity, you will imagine and explore the potential benefits
and dangers of an artificial intelligence solution you imagine. Let your imagination flow and
see where it takes you.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

1. Look up examples of current AI applications. If this feels too broad, limit the scope to
machine learning, facial recognition, or emotion AI applications. Read the Digging
Deeper section to learn about these different branches of AI.
2. New technology and innovation can create solutions to challenging problems. For
example, smart robots can take on dangerous tasks or do jobs where strength,
endurance, and problem solving are needed. Facial recognition can increase security,
and AI combined with 3D printing can speed up prototyping and production.

What AI-driven solution to a problem would you like to study? You can
imagine a new AI-driven solution, or you can choose an existing one or one
that is under development.

Facial recognition to solve airport lines.

3. For your AI-driven solution, briefly write down how you envision this product being
beneficial to humans.

How might your AI-driven solution serve the people who use it? How would it
work, and what problem(s) would it solve?

It would solve tedious airport lines by scanning someone’s face instead of passeports.

4. New technology and innovation might come with unintended consequences. Smart
robots, for example, might be taken over by hackers who could use them to commit
crimes. Facial recognition might show bias, and 3D printing with AI might
autonomously start to print dangerous or illegal objects.
What are some unexpected uses or unintended consequences that could arise
when your AI-driven solution encounters the outside world?

5. For your AI-driven solution, write down some of the unintended consequences you
thought of in Step 3. If it is hard to find unintended consequences, search the web for
"unintended consequences of AI in area that includes your application."

For example, search "unintended consequences of AI in medicine" for an AI-driven


medical device or "unintended consequences of AI in autonomous vehicles" for a new
type of autonomous AI-driven delivery system.

6. Use storytelling to share your AI-driven solution with your group members. Choose a
medium such as text, drawings, videos, slides, or collages. Include answers to the
following questions.
i. What is the AI-driven solution?
ii. What problem does this AI-driven solution solve?
iii. How will the AI-driven solution interact with the world?
iv. How will the solution help people?
v. What are some potential unintended consequences, misuses, or dangers to
society?
7. Find an audience and present your AI-driven solution.

What Happened?
This activity might have helped you notice that AI is all around you: it automatically tags
people in your photos; detects spam in your email; decides what ads you see on social media;
and determines what movies, videos, or music appear in your recommendations. You interact
with it when you use a smart assistant like Alexa or Siri. One day you may get a ride from a
self-driving car. Even if you avoid all of these, the food you eat, the newspaper you read, and
the medical treatment you receive are most likely created with the help of an AI-driven
solution. AI is changing the world.

Unfortunately, when a new technology or innovation comes into the world, it often comes
with unexpected consequences. People find creative and surprising ways to use new
capabilities—sometimes to help and sometimes to do harm.

It is not easy to predict how new AI-driven solutions will change our world, but when we
carefully consider the possibilities—as you did in this activity—we can see where some
problems might arise. Then we can take steps to make our AI-driven solutions safer.

Digging Deeper
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science in which machines are given
abilities that resemble human intelligence. Machine learning is a subdivision of AI; its goal
is to create machines that can learn and improve over time using data.
Unlike traditional computer programs, where the decisions and rules are built into the
program, machine learning programs construct their algorithms from data and feedback. This
allows machine learning programs to find trends and patterns in enormous quantities of data
—including patterns that are hard for humans to catch. They can also make predictions and
improve themselves without human intervention, and they can handle complex, changing
environments.

But machine learning has its limitations. It requires a neutral and complete set of data to learn
from and it uses a lot of computer power. The results must be reviewed carefully for errors,
such as those shown in the video Machine Learning and Human Bias.

One widely used machine learning application is image recognition. In image recognition, a
computer learns to classify images by analyzing them and finding patterns. AIs that use
image recognition can do many things, like distinguish cancerous from non-cancerous tissue
in medical images or recognize a person's face in digital pictures. Interactions with the
outside world—for example, a doctor re-classifying an image that the program wrongly
classified as cancerous—can help the application refine and improve the accuracy of its
algorithm.

With image recognition, the AI develops ways to recognize a person, regardless of age or
emotion. With emotion AI, the system develops ways to recognize human emotions,
regardless of the person expressing the emotion. These can be emotions expressed in photos,
videos, writing, or speech.

There are many more subfields of artificial intelligence: speech recognition, computer vision,
and natural language processing are a few more that have widespread applications.

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