STEM+C: Integrating AI Ethics into Robotics Learning Experiences

STEM C：将人工智能伦理融入机器人学习体验

• 批准号: 1934151
• 负责人: Tom Yeh
• 金额: $ 86.98万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1934151&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM+C; Integrating; AI; Ethics; into

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, tools, and techniques are being rapidly adopted and used in devices and products that youth interact with on a daily basis at home and in schools. Educators are starting to recognize the need to teach K-12 students about AI and are developing novel programs, such as robotics, to address this need. However, AI ethics, despite its critical importance in youth's future personal, civic, and work lives, has been largely neglected. This project develops and integrates AI ethics teaching modules into existing robotics youth programs. As students learn about robotics, they will also learn about emerging ethical issues in AI in the design of robots at the same time, including fairness, transparency, autonomy, respect, accountability, privacy, and security. The project aims to promote responsibility for AI ethics and skills among students through two types of innovative interventions by engaging learners in (1) stories based on AI ethics issues that are likely to be meaningful to young adolescents, such as surveillance of their physical activities, and (2) empathy driven hands-on activities with an embedded ethical dilemma in which students will experience the process of committing an ethical error, identifying the error, and fixing the error, potentially developing a stronger sense of ownership of ethical issues and agency to address them. The research will contribute to the understanding of the effects of integrating AI ethics into STEM programs such as robotics for students, particularly regarding their engagement in, awareness of, knowledge about, and sense of responsibility for a range of emerging ethical issues underlying the use of AI in STEM and CS fields. It will provide a new model for teaching AI to students integrated with STEM concepts in a contextualized and relevant manner, by elevating ethics as a primary concern, as opposed to as a side issue. This project is funded by the STEM + Computing (STEM+C) program that supports research and development to understand the integration of computing and computational thinking in STEM learning.The research questions driving this project are: (1) How does integrating AI ethics into a robotics program help develop students' ethical thinking, while deepening their learning in STEM and CS? (2) How do empathy-driven hands-on activities with embedded ethical dilemma help cultivate students' sense of AI ethics responsibility; and (3) How do teachers in various contexts integrate AI ethics modules into their own robotics programs? Over the course of three years, AI ethics modules will be formatively designed and studied to assess their effects on students' AI ethics reasoning along with STEM and CS skills. Researchers will also study how educators in different formal and informal contexts integrate these AI ethics modules into their robotics programs. 72 middle school students will participate in a between-subject research study while attending a 5-day robotics camp program in three camp program conditions: camp program without AI ethics, camp program with an AI ethics module separated from robotics program, and camp program with robotics integrated with AI ethics. Researchers will also conduct a mixed methods study of 50 robotics educators who have agreed to participate in an online community, studying how teachers integrate AI ethics modules into their own robotic programs. The resulting AI ethics modules will be disseminated widely through partnerships with organizations and schools, as well as through the project website. Given AI's far-reaching implications for our society, this project aims to help students develop responsibility for AI to complement their skill and knowledge about AI, so that more will be prepared and able to handle ethical issues in their future professional practices in order to guide the inevitable societal transformation driven by AI in a safer, fairer, and freer direction.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人工智能（AI）系统，工具和技术正在迅速采用，并用于年轻人每天在家庭和学校中与之互动的设备和产品。教育工作者开始认识到需要向K-12学生传授AI知识，并正在开发新颖的程序，例如机器人技术，以满足这一需求。 但是，尽管AI伦理在青年未来的个人，公民和工作生活中至关重要，但仍被忽略了。该项目将AI伦理教学模块发展到现有的机器人学会青年计划中。当学生了解机器人技术时，他们还将同时了解机器人设计中的AI中新兴的道德问题，包括公平，透明，自治，尊重，问责制，隐私和安全。该项目旨在通过两种类型的创新干预措施来促进学生对AI伦理和技能的责任，通过使学习者参与（1）基于AI伦理问题的故事，这些问题可能对年轻的青少年有意义有可能发展具有道德问题和代理机构解决方案的强烈所有权。这项研究将有助于理解将AI伦理纳入STEM计划的影响，例如为学生提供机器人技术，尤其是关于他们参与，了解，了解，知识和责任感，对AI在STEM和CS领域中使用AI的一系列新兴伦理问题。它将通过将道德作为主要问题而不是作为附带问题的主要问题来为与STEM概念融合的学生教授AI的新模型。该项目由STEM +计算（STEM + C）计划资助，该计划支持研发，以了解STEM学习中计算和计算思维的整合。驱动该项目的研究问题是：（1）将AI伦理学融入机器人学计划如何帮助发展学生的伦理思维，同时在STEM和CS中加深学习？ （2）通过嵌入式道德困境通过移情驱动的实践活动如何帮助培养学生对AI道德责任感的意识； （3）在各种情况下，教师如何将AI伦理模块整合到自己的机器人计划中？ 在三年的过程中，AI伦理模块将进行形式上设计和研究，以评估其对学生AI伦理推理以及STEM和CS技能的影响。研究人员还将研究不同正式和非正式背景下的教育者如何将这些AI伦理模块整合到其机器人计划中。 72名中学生将参加一项受试者间研究，同时参加为期5天的机器人营地计划，以三个营地计划：没有AI伦理学的营地计划，与机器人计划分开的AI伦理模块的营地计划，以及与AI Ethics集成的机器人的CAMP计划。研究人员还将对50名机器人教育者进行混合方法研究，他们同意参加在线社区，研究教师如何将AI伦理模块整合到自己的机器人计划中。由此产生的AI伦理模块将通过与组织和学校以及项目网站的合作伙伴关系来广泛传播。鉴于AI对我们社会的深远影响，该项目旨在帮助学生对AI的责任补充他们对AI的技能和知识，以便将有更多的准备并能够在未来的专业实践中处理道德问题，以指导AI在不可避免的社会转型中通过AI驱动的不可避免的社会转型，并通过更安全的指导和FREER方向进行了反映的奖励，并以NSF的指定为基础，并以此为基础。智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

Literacy and STEM Teachers Adapt AI Ethics Curriculum

扫盲和 STEM 教师调整人工智能道德课程

• DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26906
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• 作者: Walsh, Benjamin;Dalton, Bridget;Forsyth, Stacey;Yeh, Tom
• 通讯作者: Yeh, Tom