AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity – if AI has a goal and humanity just happens to come in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings.
Elon Musk, Technology Entrepreneur, and Investor.
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.
Stephen Hawking
As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership.
Amit Ray, Famous AI Scientist, Author

Transition

Learning Objectives:
  • b. 2.a. and 2.c.

[understand that algorithms can have various goals and motives]

Instructions:

  • Connection: “Remember when we learned what an algorithm is? Who can remind me what the three parts of an algorithm is?”
    • Answer: Input, Steps to Change Input, Output
  • Give cake example (mention optimization)
    • My algorithm would take in the ingredients
    • Mix together ingredients and pour into a cake pan, then set the oven, then put the cake pan inside
    • My output would be a cake
      • Optimization would be like; cleaning as I work or decorating the cake. Or adding things that would cater to your preference
    • Give PB&J worksheet
    • Make students share responses within themselves then point out what’s different or similar in front of the class
    • Give your algorithm a title “How to make the ___ PB&J sandwich,” you cannot use the word “best”
      • Did any of you include instructions to put away ingredients after you used them?
        • Optimising for tidiness in your algorithm
      • Did any of you cut you sandwich into fun shapes? Cut off the crust?
        • Optimising for playfulness or aesthetics
      • Computer algorithms also optimise for various goals, but sometimes this can be hard to spot. What do you think the goal of Google’s search algorithm is?
        • “best results” ® what word can replace “best”?
        • “best results for me” ® what do you mean? how can google confirm that it has shown the “best results for me”
        • answers to look for ® to get us to clink on link

® to get us to click on advertisers’ link

® anything that shows students understand that the search results benefit Google first.