Design Tricks
Brains and...
Current Events
AI
Online Privacy
100
This design trick includes alerts that draw your attention back to the app or device, which trains you to respond to these interruptions habitually.
Notifications
100
What were the three groups in the MIT study on AI and the Brain?
LLM (Large Language Model)/Chat GPT Group
Search Engine group
Brains only / No technology group
100
ICE is part of what US Department?
DHS or the Department of Homeland Security
100
This type of AI creates new content, including text, images, code, and video,s by learning patterns from massive datasets.
Genrative AI or Creative AI
100
In 2020 this company said that it would buy TikTok to help protect personal data from going to the Chinese government.
Microsoft
(this hasn't happened)
200
This is when a platform automatically starts playing the next episode or recommended video, which removes your decision to watch another and makes continuous watching the default habit.
Autoplay
200
REM sleep is essential for what?
processing and storing information from the day into memory
200
What was the main demand of San Francisco teachers?
Health Care Coverage for all of their dependants.
200
AI doesn't initially know the difference between... (name one pair)
good and bad
helpful or hurtful creations
fact and fiction (not always)
200
These are small files that remember who you are and what you clicked on.
cookies
300
Content that continuously loads as you scroll, which eliminates natural stopping points and makes it easy to keep scrolling without you deciding to continue.
Infinite Scroll
300
True or False:
The Search Engine groups brain activity was as low as the group using Chat GPT.
False - it was closer to the "brains only" group.
300
Name two actions that were taken during the General Strike to protest ICE (in Minnesota).
People did not go to work or school.
People did not shop.
Businesses closed.
300
What kind of AI app could you build with the following inputs?
Self Driving Cars
300
This company used personal data to target people and send them political ads.
Cambridge Analytica
400
What design trick does this picture represent?
Streaks
400
This is the effect when we scan information, often skipping much of the end of the article.
The "F" Effect
400
During what administration (who was President) was the Department of Homeland Security created?
Bonus 100 points if you could name the year DHS was founded.
The George W. Bush administration
2002
400
In her study of facial recognition algorithms, Joy Buolamwini found that this group of people were misidntified the MOST.
Women with darker skin.
400
Bots from Russian troll farms used fake accounts to try to influence which US election?
2016
500
This slot-machine-like action that might reveal new content, which encourages the habit of frequently checking for updates.
Pull to refresh
500
Name one limitation of the MIT study on ChatGPT and the Brain.
There were only 54 participants
It only looked at word processing
It wasn't yet peer-reviewed when released.
500
What is the name of the San Francisco Unified School District superintendent?
Maria Su
500
In her email that ultimately cost her job at Google, Timnit Gebru wrote that she was upset over Google's reponse to her bringing what two issues?
1. need for a more diverse staff
2. bias in artificial intellligence.
500
This company aims to collect and study data about Americans and share this information with the American government
Palantir