Collaborative Research: EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Teaching High School Students about Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Ethics via Empathy-Driven Hands-On Projects

合作研究：EAGER：SaTC-EDU：通过同理心驱动的实践项目向高中生传授网络安全和人工智能伦理知识

• 批准号: 2114991
• 负责人: Yang Wang
• 金额: $ 15.48万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EAGER; SaTC; EDU

Empathy, a unique human capacity to think from others' perspectives and feel for others, is an essential skill that will not be replaced by automation. While empathy is valued, there have been serious concerns about its absence in technology development. This project seeks to address that gap by developing hands-on labs to train high school students and to increase their empathy of others so that they can identify cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) ethics issues. The hands-on labs developed in this project will be made publicly available so schools or teachers may freely use them. These labs, workshops, and summer camps will improve high school students' knowledge of, as well as skills and career interests in, cybersecurity and AI ethics. These activities will also foster high school students' empathy for others, especially young children. This project will help the next-generation workforce learn and apply knowledge and skills in designing and using future technologies in a secure and ethical manner. This project presents a radically different approach to integrating cybersecurity and AI ethics education. It will use an empathy-driven approach to teach high school students about young children who are most vulnerable to cybersecurity and AI ethics issues. To enhance empathetic responses to young children, the project will include real-life examples of young children who are interacting with unethical AI or exposed to cybersecurity risks. Specifically, this project aims to develop, deploy and evaluate hands-on labs to train high school students and to increase their empathy of others in the context of cybersecurity and AI ethics issues. The labs will cover a wide variety of scenarios such as online gaming, social media, mobile apps, and smart toys. In addition to knowledge-based measures, this project will explore the usage of a cutting-edge non-invasive neuro-imaging technique, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), to assess the impact of these labs on the activation of brain regions associated with empathy in high school students. This project is supported by a special initiative of the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program to foster new, previously unexplored, collaborations between the fields of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.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.

同理心是一种从他人的角度思考并感同身受的人类独特能力，是一项不会被自动化取代的基本技能。虽然同理心受到重视，但人们对它在技术开发中的缺乏表示严重担忧。通过开发动手实验室来培训高中生并增强他们对他人的同理心，以便他们能够识别网络安全和人工智能 (AI) 道德问题，来弥补这一差距。该项目中开发的动手实验室将公开。因此学校或教师可以自由使用它们。研讨会和夏令营将提高高中生对网络安全和人工智能道德的知识、技能和职业兴趣。这些活动还将培养高中生对他人，特别是幼儿的同理心。下一代劳动力以安全和道德的方式学习和应用设计和使用未来技术的知识和技能，该项目提出了一种完全不同的方法来整合网络安全和人工智能道德教育，它将使用同理心驱动的方法来教授高中。学生最容易受到网络安全和人工智能道德问题的影响。该项目将包括与不道德的人工智能互动或面临网络安全风险的幼儿的现实例子，具体而言，该项目旨在开发、部署和评估动手实验室，以培训高中生和学生。除了基于知识的措施外，该实验室还将涵盖在线游戏、社交媒体、移动应用程序和智能玩具等多种场景。将探索尖端非侵入性技术的使用神经成像技术、功能性近红外光谱 (fNIRS)，以评估这些实验室对高中生同理心相关大脑区域激活的影响。该项目得到了安全可信网络空间 (Secure and Trustworthy Cyber​​space) 一项特别倡议的支持。 SaTC）计划旨在促进网络安全、人工智能和教育领域之间新的、以前未探索过的合作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来确保支持。

项目成果

Using fNIRS To Understand Adults’ Empathy for Children in AI and Cybersecurity Scenarios

使用 fNIRS 了解人工智能和网络安全场景中成人对儿童的同理心

• DOI: 10.1145/3585088.3593869
• 发表时间: 2023-06
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
• 作者: Ashraf, Mohsena;Patterson, Genevieve;Kilhoffer, Zachary;Han, Xu;Brady, Nolan;Rahn, Anna;Atluri, Nikhitha;Oliver, Violet;Huang, Yun;Wang, Yang;et al
• 通讯作者: et al