Welcome to bESTology 2025 fACTOIDS

This mission will focus your thinking through interaction of AI and deepen your knowledge of training AI models and the benefits of AI for society. You have learned about bias, training models, and ways AI has failed. Now let’s look at why AI should benefit society. Find your thinking cap and gather your thoughts to enter this next part of your AI mission. Let’s begin…

Lesson #9  “Machine Intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make” Nick Bostrum

Mission nine will have you apply your critical thinking and reflection strategies to understand how AI can be a benefit to society. Hollywood has shown how artificial intelligence causes problems with society both on Earth and in space. Will it be possible that AI could be a positive asset to society? Let’s examine this possibility… 

RESEARCH RESOURCES

RESEARCH

In Lesson 8 you learned about AI failures. Review the Research Resources above, what do you think?  Has failure moved AI to benefiting society? What about personal use of AI?  AI in education? Is there an area of society that AI should be avoided?  Share your thoughts in your insights in your Engineering Notebook.

• What made AI a benefit?
• Do certain tasks performed by AI extended across several areas–Industry/Business/Personal/Education etc?
• Did you find  bias in the response?
• What AI tools do you use that you feel are beneficial?
• Do you expect AI to continue being a benefit?

INQUIRY

Nick Bostrum  is an author, philosopher, and authority on AI and society. Thinking about his quote at the beginning of this lesson, how will you share what you have learned about the future of AI and its benefits.  How will this lesson support your team in sharing and showing the benefit of AI, with your robot design, construction, and software design?

BEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY

Learn how AI benefits society . After reading the article, Were there any examples given you did not know about? If so, think about why you didn’t know. Do any of the  businesses in your community use any of these AI bots/tools? Connect with one or two and find out if their experiences have been positive. Share your investigation in your Engineering Notebook.

Teacher / Mentor Info:

Bloom’s Taxonomy-Lesson  Addresses the following Taxonomy Levels: 
Resources-  Remembering and Understanding Research-Applying, Analyzing Evaluating Activity-Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating BEST in Your Community- Analyzing, Evaluating Based On A True Story-Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating

Workforce Skills-Lesson  has students utilize the following Workforce Skills: 
Communication-effectively communicate ideas and information to others
Adaptability-understand how to change and adapt thinking and behavior