Curriculum

A curriculum to support informed public deliberation – to be improved with your feedback and participation!

Curriculum objectives
• To develop a basic understanding of what AI is, its current state of development, and its potential technological growth and impact in the distant future.

• To engage students/participants and various stakeholders from different sectors with diverse expertise to co-construct knowledge that could help us as individuals and as a society to anticipate and make informed decisions in relation to the challenges brought about by AI.

• To enable the students/participants to appreciate how the revolutionary development of AI is intimately related to the future progress of humanities.

• To build and advance the process of critical thinking and discussion on the societal impact of AI, so as to develop guiding human- and Earth-centric principles and frameworks for us to manage it for the benefits of humanity and the earth.

Curriculum features
• The curriculum evolves as the content is co-constructed by lecturer and participants/students.

• Learning key elements of AI without the need for computer programming.

• Besides seminars, reading materials, videos, participatory activities such as debates and forum theatre also form part of the curriculum.

• Students/participants are expected to participate in the co-construction of knowledge drawing from their domain of interest or respective professional field.

• Students/participants are expected to apply their knowledge from the core curricula materials to critically evaluate, discuss, and resolve diverse issues of AI on humanities by proposing ideas and solutions on a topic of interest to them as a class project.

• Students/participants are encouraged to engage external parties as well as their peers in the discussion of their project. This is in line with our goal to broaden the education and research of AI for Humanity through community-based participatory research and citizen science.

Desired Outcomes
• Students/participants will develop the critical awareness and thought processes that would contribute towards better informed decisions to manage the impact of AI in their lives.

• Students/participants will be able to contribute to the discussion and development of ethical principles and governance structure of AI that will benefit humanity.

• Scientists and engineers who partake in this curriculum will be able to articulate the moral imperatives in creating and designing responsible AI systems that follow the requisite ethical principles.

• Students/participants will determine the evolving relationship between humans and machines as AI become progressively more intelligent, by identifying and taking pre-emptive strategies to ensure the outcome is beneficial to humanity.

The curriculum consists of 4 parts :

Part 1 –  AI: The New Electricity

Part 2 – AI for Humanity – Why?

Part 3 – Unintended Consequences, New Risks & Moral Dilemmas

Part 4 – AI Ethics and Governance