Ethical Discussions
These activity prompts, all written by Traci Gardner, help students explore ethical considerations related to AI in writing.
Undergraduate
AI Disclosure in Agency Communication
Students discuss the use of disclosure statements for AI-generated content. Students consider how to craft clear and honest statements, enhancing their technical writing skills and understanding of AI ethics.
The Ethical Dilemma of AI and the Absent Team Member
This activity explores an ethical scenario involving team documentation when a member is absent. Students must evaluate various options and their implications for accuracy, deadlines, and safety.
How Is AI Trained?
This lesson plan teaches students how AI is trained using data they share online. Through illustrations, discussions, and real-life examples, students learn the importance of data in AI development and enhance their critical thinking and writing skills.
Facing Off with Facial Recognition
Through discussions, definitions, and reflective activities, students develop a critical understanding of facial recognition and its impact on privacy, enhancing their analytical and writing skills.
AI Algorithms: How Well Do They Know You?
This lesson plan teaches students about AI recommendation algorithms and their influence on online content. Through videos, discussions, and reflective exercises, students learn how algorithms shape their online experiences and develop critical thinking and writing skills.
How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives
This lesson plan helps students understand the impacts of AI bias on society. Through critical thinking exercises and discussions, students learn about AI bias, its negative effects, and how to address and report these issues.
Understanding AI Bias
This lesson plan helps students understand AI bias through practical exercises and discussions. By exploring training and testing data, students learn how biases can be introduced into AI systems and develop critical thinking and writing skills by analyzing and reflecting on these concepts.
AI Chatbots: Who’s Behind the Screen?
This lesson plan introduces students to AI chatbots, their functionalities, and their real-life applications. Through videos, discussions, and interactive activities, students enhance their understanding of AI chatbots and develop critical writing skills by articulating their knowledge and reflections.
AI Challenge: Create Your Own Mixtape
In this assignment, students create their own mixtape using Boomy’s AI tools.
AI Challenge: The Instagram Experiment
Students investigate how Instagram’s AI ranks posts in their feeds.
AI Challenge: Hacking the TikTok Algorithm
Students experiment with TikTok’s algorithm to see how effectively they can influence their For You Page (FYP) content.
AI Challenge: Fooling Facial Recognition
Students explore methods to fool their phone’s facial recognition technology and reflect on the effectiveness of these methods.
The 29 AIs of Washington, D.C.
Students explore how AI systems influence government decision-making and their impact on daily life. By creating infographics, students will explain AI’s role in practical decisions and draw conclusions about AI-based decision-making effects.
Picturing the Future of Medicine
Students envision the future of medicine through AI innovation by creating a virtual vision board. They will explore how AI has augmented the field of medicine and predict future developments.
Interview with ChatGPT
Students explore the abilities and limitations of AI chatbots like ChatGPT through creating and recording a podcast interview. Students will analyze the role of AI in information-providing contexts and compare it with human expertise.
Interspecies Communication App
This activity involves students exploring AI’s potential in decoding animal communication and designing a mobile app prototype for interspecies communication.
Highway to Autonomy
This activity involves students exploring the technology, benefits, and ethical concerns of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Through research and analysis, students will create a policy proposal addressing a specific AV concern and advocate for their proposal.
Facial Recognition for Good, Evil, & Everything in Between
This activity explores the dual-use nature of AI facial recognition technology through research and creative categorization. Students will develop critical writing skills by analyzing and presenting the ethical implications and societal impact of facial recognition.
Deepfake PSA
This activity engages students in understanding and addressing the impact of AI-generated deepfakes through creating a press release. The focus is on developing fact-based, balanced written communication aimed at educating the general public about deepfakes.
Artificial Common Sense
This activity involves students debating the role of common sense in AI and its importance in decision-making. Through structured debates, students will explore and argue different perspectives on AI’s capabilities and limitations, enhancing their critical thinking and persuasive writing skills.
A Decision Tree to Guide Student AI Use
This activity provides a decision tree model to guide students in responsible AI use for enhancing their learning. It emphasizes critical engagement, iterative use, and transparency in AI interactions, fostering metacognitive reflection and ethical clarity in writing.
Learn about Generative AI
This webpage provides guidance on using AI features in Google Search to enhance writing and research. It covers how AI can help generate creative content, improve research efficiency, and provide detailed answers to complex questions, making it a valuable resource for enhancing writing skills.
AI as Not-a-Grammar-Checker
Students use AI to simulate reader feedback, apply writing theories, and improve student writing beyond basic grammar checks.