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The AI Incident Database as an Educational Tool to Raise Awareness of AI Harms: A Classroom Exploration of Efficacy, Limitations, & Future Improvements

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Prior work has established the importance of integrating AI ethics topics into computer and data sciences curricula. We provide evidence suggesting that one of the critical objectives of AI Ethics education must be to raise awareness of AI harms. While there are various sources to learn about such harms, The AI Incident Database (AIID) is one of the few attempts at offering a relatively comprehensive database indexing prior instances of harms or near harms stemming from the deployment of AI technologies in the real world. This study assesses the effectiveness of AIID as an educational tool to raise awareness regarding the prevalence and severity of AI harms in socially high-stakes domains. We present findings obtained through a classroom study conducted at an R1 institution as part of a course focused on the societal and ethical considerations around AI and ML. Our qualitative findings characterize students' initial perceptions of core topics in AI ethics and their desire to close the educational gap between their technical skills and their ability to think systematically about ethical and societal aspects of their work. We find that interacting with the database helps students better understand the magnitude and severity of AI harms and instills in them a sense of urgency around (a) designing functional and safe AI and (b) strengthening governance and accountability mechanisms. Finally, we compile students' feedback about the tool and our class activity into actionable recommendations for the database development team and the broader community to improve awareness of AI harms in AI ethics education.


Robot Skill Learning Via Classical Robotics-Based Generated Datasets: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Future Improvement

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Why do we not profit from our long-existing classical robotics knowledge and look for some alternative way for data collection? The situation ignoring all existing methods might be such a waste. This article argues that a dataset created using a classical robotics algorithm is a crucial part of future development. This developed classic algorithm has a perfect domain adaptation and generalization property, and most importantly, collecting datasets based on them is quite easy. It is well known that current robot skill-learning approaches perform exceptionally badly in the unseen domain, and their performance against adversarial attacks is quite limited as long as they do not have a very exclusive big dataset. Our experiment is the initial steps of using a dataset created by classical robotics codes. Our experiment investigated possible trajectory collection based on classical robotics. It addressed some advantages and disadvantages and pointed out other future development ideas.