AI For Youth: Grade 08

About Course

This course covers understanding AI. Students learn what the term AI means, where they already use it, how a system gains abilities nobody programmed, what it still cannot do, how to check its answers, and which decisions should keep a person involved. Features: self-paced, no coding, about 30 minutes per lesson, 8 lessons, 8 quizzes, 1 project, no prerequisites.

Course Content

Unit 1: What AI Is
<p>What the word covers, the places you have already used it today, how a system ends up able to do something nobody programmed, and the things it still cannot do at all.</p>

Lesson 1: Defining Artificial Intelligence
Quiz 1: Defining Artificial Intelligence
Lesson 2: AI in Everyday Life
Quiz 2: AI in Everyday Life
Lesson 3: How AI Systems Are Built
Quiz 3: How AI Systems Are Built
Lesson 4: Why AI Makes Mistakes
Quiz 4: Why AI Makes Mistakes

Unit 2: Using AI Responsibly
<p>Asking for what you actually want, checking an answer instead of trusting it, whose examples the system learned from, and which decisions still need a person in the room.</p>

Lesson 5: Prompting and Checking
Quiz 5: Prompting and Checking
Lesson 6: Bias in Training Data
Quiz 6: Bias in Training Data
Lesson 7: Stakes and Responsibility
Quiz 7: Stakes and Responsibility
Lesson 8: Capstone — Auditing an AI System
Quiz 8: Auditing an AI System
Capstone Project: Audit a System You Use

About Course

Course Content

Unit 1: What AI Is <p>What the word covers, the places you have already used it today, how a system ends up able to do something nobody programmed, and the things it still cannot do at all.</p>

Lesson 1: Defining Artificial Intelligence

Quiz 1: Defining Artificial Intelligence

Lesson 2: AI in Everyday Life

Quiz 2: AI in Everyday Life

Lesson 3: How AI Systems Are Built

Quiz 3: How AI Systems Are Built

Lesson 4: Why AI Makes Mistakes

Quiz 4: Why AI Makes Mistakes

Unit 2: Using AI Responsibly <p>Asking for what you actually want, checking an answer instead of trusting it, whose examples the system learned from, and which decisions still need a person in the room.</p>

Lesson 5: Prompting and Checking

Quiz 5: Prompting and Checking

Lesson 6: Bias in Training Data

Quiz 6: Bias in Training Data

Lesson 7: Stakes and Responsibility

Quiz 7: Stakes and Responsibility

Lesson 8: Capstone — Auditing an AI System

Quiz 8: Auditing an AI System

Capstone Project: Audit a System You Use

Welcome to Sheaves AI

Unit 1: What AI Is
<p>What the word covers, the places you have already used it today, how a system ends up able to do something nobody programmed, and the things it still cannot do at all.</p>

Unit 2: Using AI Responsibly
<p>Asking for what you actually want, checking an answer instead of trusting it, whose examples the system learned from, and which decisions still need a person in the room.</p>