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Integrity in AI

Teaching Responsible Use in Classrooms

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Presented by Tim Belmont at NJECC 2024

Tuesday, March 12th 2024

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About Me

  • English Teacher at Lyndhurst High School in NJ for 12 Years
  • Technology Specialist for 4 Years
  • MA in Educational Technology from NJCU
  • Teacher of Public Speaking & Robotics Club Advisor

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What does it mean to ethically use AI?

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Exploring Ethical AI With Students

  • What Is AI?
  • Recognizing Bias & Misinformation
  • Avoiding Plagiarism, Embracing Process
  • Protecting Privacy & Security

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What Is AI?

High school freshmen were asked “What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?”

February 2024

Artificial intelligence is just a robot who gets its knowledge from the Internet and each day it grows more knowledge somehow

It is a robot that knows the answer to everything

I think it is a set of code meant to help or answer the users request or questions

AI is a new kind of technology that helps people with a lot of things. It can do things like answer questions, have a conversation with you, and make pictures. AI can also be dangerous because it can put someone's face on another person or it can mimic a singer's voice to write a whole song.

It is a virtual assistant

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Teenagers Using AI

YouTube

AI comment topics & AI conversations

TikTok

AI Creative Assistant & Song Generator

Snapchat

“My AI” Chatbot & Image Generation

Instagram

AI Chatbot & AI Backdrop

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What Is AI?

AI can be openly defined as “systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions - with some degree of autonomy - to achieve specific goals”

- “Artificial Intelligence: Definition and Background” by Sheikh, Prins, & Schrijvers (Jan. 2023)

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What Is AI?

OBJECTIVE

TRUTH

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What Is AI?

AI tools are trained.

Sometimes, we don’t know who is doing the training.

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What Is AI?

Classroom

Ideas

Classroom

Ideas

  • Reflect on how AI affects our day to day lives and the issues surrounding it
  • Discuss scenarios in which AI is most helpful

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Recognizing Bias & Misinformation

Bias:

The action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment

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Bias in AI

“Every part of the process in which a human can be biased, AI can also be biased.”

Nicole Napolitano, Center for Policing Equity

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Bias in AI

Google Gemini prompt results for “Generate an image of a 1943 German Soldier” as of 2/20/24 (via John Lussier)

Stable Diffusion prompt results for “Toys in Iraq” as of 11/1/23 (via The Washington Post)

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Misinformation in AI

AI “Hallucinations”

LLMs can generate incorrect information 3 to 27% of the time

Can falsely fill “gaps” with fabricated information

Misrepresenting AI-Generated Content

Generated content can be passed off as genuine by humans - or genuine content can be accused of being AI-generated

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Bias & Misinformation

Classroom

Ideas

Classroom

Ideas

  • Reflect on how AI can be used to spread misinformation
  • Discuss the types of bias and how they relate to AI
  • Complete The Sift’s AI Quiz and discuss results
  • Create Public Service Announcement posters regarding AI bias and misinformation

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Avoiding Plagiarism, Embracing Process

Checking the Product

Supporting the Process

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Why Do Students Plagiarize?

“How do High School Students Justify Internet Plagiarism?” by Dominic A. Sisti (2007)

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Plagiarism

“Using online detection software is like putting a Band-Aid on a bruise. What is needed is a more proactive way to situate information and digital literacy instruction in authentic contexts and use plagiarism as a teaching tool. Rather than being reactive when plagiarism occurs, we need to acknowledge the complexities of using the Internet and recognize the importance of students’ acquisition of these new literacies and skills as paramount to their success in academic settings and beyond”

“Rethinking Plagiarism in the Digital Age” by Lea Calvert Evering & Gary Moorman (2012)

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Supporting the Process

Brisk Teaching’s Inspect Writing Tool

  • Allows replay of writing in Google Docs
  • Highlights pastes, large edits, and feedback
  • Viewable in Google Classroom grading view
  • Free feature

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Supporting the Process

Student Reflection

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Process Over Plagiarism

Classroom

Ideas

Classroom

Ideas

  • Reflect on why embracing the process can be more beneficial than valuing the product
  • Discuss what is cheating in regards to AI
  • Participate in consistent reflection using logs or videos
  • Model how AI tools can be utilized for brainstorming and planning without replacing the whole process

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Protecting Privacy & Security

Students should consider where their information is going when they utilize AI tools

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Where Do My Prompts Go?

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General Privacy Tips for Students

  • Do not provide personal information to AI platforms
    • Some platforms train on input data by default
    • ChatGPT (but not the OpenAI API)
  • Be aware of all information posted online
    • Not only can it create a digital footprint, you may be training AI

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Protecting Privacy & Security

Classroom

Ideas

Classroom

Ideas

  • Reflect on the risks of sharing personal information with AI platforms
  • Discuss why companies collect people’s information
  • Model and monitor safe AI use through a platform such as SchoolAI
  • Examine privacy policies of services that integrate AI such as Snapchat or TikTok

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Thank You!

Tim Belmont

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