Generation AI is one of the projects of the Security and Trust in the Age of Algorithms (Shield) programme. Shield is a set of AI projects funded by the Strategic Research Council (STN) of the Academy of Finland.
The Shield programme focuses on security and trust in a world of information technology and hybrid influencing. In addition to more traditional security threats, threats and opportunities created by digitalisation and technological development as well as different crises from biodiversity loss to climate change, financial crises and power-political conflicts are shaping our operating environment in unpredictable ways.
Why is the Generation AI project important right now?
Generation AI addresses three interlinked societal challenges
- The deterioration of security, control and a sense of free will in a data-driven society
- the erosion of trust in public authorities, the media, science, civil society and citizens; and
- rapidly growing inequalities in the management and empowerment of ever-changing ICTs.
The project will develop interventions in the context of pre-school and school education to increase children’s resilience in a technologically evolving world, to create and promote a cybersecurity mindset and to equip teachers with the insights and pedagogies needed to change curricula. The project will also enhance research on children’s rights (CRC) in the field of AI.
What will the project do?
The project will build a foundation on which to build technology education for the “AI generation”: technology education that takes into account how AI works, the opportunities it offers and its dynamic effects - without ignoring its shortcomings and risks, or how AI systems can foster confrontation, discrimination, insecurity and erode trust.
The project will support learners’ understanding of safety and trust in AI and machine learning (ML)-based systems. The project will measure its impact on learners’ data literacy and their ability to work with complex and non-linear processes, making them less unpredictable and polarising.
The project will enable learners to recognise the consequences of the often unconscious choices they make online. It illustrates how biases creep into systems and create algorithmic discrimination and inequalities. It sensitises learners to questions of governance, technological determinism, and who has power over data and in what ways users’ trust can be abused.
Who is the target group of the Generation Ai project?
The project brings together technology developers, schools, public authorities, businesses and NGOs. It will strengthen children’s and young people’s ability to cope with the global societal impact of technology and provide teachers with pedagogical tools for transforming learning.
Making children and young people aware of the technology on which future societies will increasingly depend is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Inspired by this challenge, the “Generation AI” project will generate and sharpen the scientific understanding that will enable educational solutions to meet the skills needs of the AI generation.
Applications developed for the project
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