UNSW Sydney academic calls for changes to the education system so future workforce can challenge artificial intelligence technology Curriculum needs
Lyria Bennett Moses, Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and UNSW Faculty of Law Professor believes that so-called ‘smart’ systems could cause great harm to individuals and the wider community if today’s students aren’t taught how to critically engage with them. She has proposed updating the Australian curricula on statistics and modelling after being commissioned by the NSW Department of Education’s Education for a Changing World initiative to explore the implications of developments in AI and automation for education.
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Professor Bennett Moses has expressed concern over current school students growing up in a world where such technologies are increasingly being applied in ways that affect what information they see, what choices are available to them and what decisions are made about them. She believes social media and commercial platforms like Google are classifying and individualising content to a point which could have a direct impact on an individual’s life. Be it creating filter bubbles that polarise political debate, or presenting fixed prices based on a person’s past shopping habits, students need to be able to understand how that data is being used.
Moses’s paper – Helping future citizens navigate an automated, datafied world, proposes an update of the current curricula on statistics and modelling to include more recent examples of data processing, such as search engines and social media. She has also opined on how every high school student needs to be able to code a machine learning algorithm, and young people need to understand the happenings behind these systems so they can properly assess their use as future citizens, consumers or in a professional capacity.
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The paper also suggests that alongside broader computational thinking skills, students who can apply ethical reasoning and diverse knowledge and skills to applications of machine learning and statistics will be in a better position to challenge potentially harmful forces of automation. Moses believes that determining what statistic fairly represents racial groups in policing or sentencing tools for example requires an understanding of the broader social and historical context. As per her observations, today’s young people need to be able to assess the applicability of such tools so they are used in a way which is fair, appropriate, safe and effective.
It is crucial for schools to offer learning opportunities – whether embedded in a regularly scheduled class or at a special day of activities, where students can engage in problem-based and interdisciplinary thinking about important contemporary issues which cut across the curriculum. A mentioned example discusses examining ethical considerations for data-driven inferencing and decision-making using sentencing, policing or even national assessments of student capabilities.
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According to the NSW Department of Education Secretary, Mark Scott AO, education has a responsibility to ensure students are equipped to make the complex decisions needed to thrive in an AI augmented world. This is more than a case of preparing students for future employment, as education must prepare young people to be future citizens given the demands of a rapidly changing world. He believes that it will be critical to foster digital literacy with students that are skilled in designing creative solutions to take full advantage of emerging technologies. Equally, young people need to be able to engage with the profound ethical questions that these technologies raise for all.
Professor Moses is leading the ‘UNSW Grand Challenge on Living with 21st Century Technology’.
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