Define This
As a class, we drafted an AUP. What does this acronym stand for?
Acceptable Use Policy
A tech company is considering deploying an AI-powered hiring tool that automatically filters resumes. State one potential societal risk associated with this use of AI
What is algorithmic bias leading to discrimination based on gender, race, age, or other?
When were the clothing sizes "small", "medium" and "large" created?
What is during the Civil War?
In which US city did residents create their own internet network?
What is Detroit?
A self-driving car with faulty breaks has two passengers. It is heading toward a group of three people crossing the street. If it veers off the road, it will injure its two passengers; if it keeps going, it will injure the three pedestrians. A utilitarian ethicist would say that the car should...
What is veer off the road?
Britannica Book of the Year defined this as "the responsible use of science, technology, and ethics in a society shaped by technology"
What is Technoethics?
A term for the massive amount of low-quality, cheaply produced, AI-generated content flooding the internet, designed to game algorithms for clicks and revenue, characterized by shallow info, clickbait, repetitive formats, uncanny visuals, and often lacking human oversight or authenticity
What is AI slop?
Name one way that the ECFS campus is not accessible to neurodivergent or disabled students, other than lack of ramps and elevators
What is lack of accessible tech in the pool, lockdown drills only have verbal cues, the auditorium sound loft is only accessible using a ladder, lack of designated quiet rooms, etc.
Systematic exclusion of marginalized communities from access to digital resources and opportunities, which manifests as poor/inadequate access to hardware/software and digital literacy
What is digital redlining?
Think back to your Unit 1 project. Share one risk associated with your or your partner's chosen technology.
What is...?
A set of mathematical instructions or rules that, especially if given to a computer, will help to calculate an answer to a problem
What is an algorithm?
When can bias be present in an algorithm?
What is in the training data or in the output
A process & design philosophy that puts human needs, capabilities, and behavior first, then designs to accommodate them
What is Human Centered Design?
When companies release different types of the same product to different audiences, usually with different price points and/or functionality depending on the version
What is versioning?
Think back to your Unit 1 project. Share one reward associated with your or your partner's chosen technology.
What is... ?
Technology is a combination of the Greek words…
What is Techne and Logos?
ChatGPT is this type of algorithm
What is generative artificial intelligence? Also acceptable: large language model, deep learning algorithm, machine learning algorithm.
A button on Google Classroom changes color to indicate that the cursor is in fact in the right place
What is Feedback?
This organization has designated the internet as a human right
What is the United Nations?
ECFS is considering deploying technology that scrapes all of the students' texts and social media posts while they are on campus, to check them for any potentially dangerous content. Would a care-based ethicist be in support of this initiative?
What is, probably or definitely not? Why?: Concerns that students do not have the power to consent to their privacy being eroded.
Human Experience, Human Effort, and Human Rights are found on this pyramid
What is the Ethical Hierarchy of Needs?
When an AI model generates confident but incorrect or nonsensical information, it is called this
What is a hallucination?
When you figure out what actions are possible with a technology, and where and how to perform them
What is Discoverability?
Six out of twelve students chose to interview an older adult in their life about how they might be experiencing the digital divide. Name one way that these older adults struggled with technology.
What is struggling to learn new tools, feeling forced to use technology despite desire not to (in order to do their job, keep in touch with family, pay for services, etc.), falling prey to scams or being hacked, not knowing how to recognize AI-generated images, etc.
Name one of the five main ethical perspectives studied in this class, other than utilitarianism and care-based ethics
What is principle-based ethics, rights-based ethics, or virtue-based ethics?