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What is AI?

Directions:

  1. Review “6 things to know about AI” (News Literacy Project).
  2. Use this reading guide to take notes as you read the infographic.
  3. Determine how to navigate information online when AI-generated content

is introduced.

Resource Connection Tip: Watch NLP’s webinar “How to fact-check in the AI-age”

for relevant insights.

In your own words, what is artificial intelligence (AI)?

Use “6 things to know about AI” to compare and contrast text-based AI with visuals created by AI.

Write what they have in common in the overlapping part. Write how they differ in the separate parts.

TEXT BOTH VISUALS

PART A: What is AI?

Dig Deeper

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PART B: News literacy takeaways and implications

1. Why aren’t generative AI tools objective?

Find an excerpt that supports your answer. Write or summarize it here.

2. In what ways has AI shown it is NOT reliably factual?

Find an excerpt that supports your answer. Write or summarize it here.

3. What are some of the upsides to AI?

Find an excerpt that supports your answer. Write or summarize it here.

4. How is content easier than ever to create —

and fake — with AI?

Find an excerpt that supports your answer. Write or summarize it here.

5. How does AI signal a change in the nature of evidence?

Find an excerpt that supports your answer. Write or summarize it here.

6. How can you find reputable sources of information?

Find an excerpt that supports your answer. Write or summarize it here.

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Conclusion: How can you navigate information online when AI-generated content is introduced? Use details from all parts of this think sheet in your response.

PART C: The future

How do you predict AI technology will change in the future?

How will you know what to trust and accept as authentic?

Challenge: Use these slides to test your ability to detect if news stories are AI-generated or not.

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