"In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles. AI gets lots of things wrong, he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a way few adults do."
"Philip Colligan, the chief executive of the digital education charity the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has warned of a big split in society between people who grasp how AIs work and are able to control them challenging their increasing role in automating decisions in areas including housing, welfare, health, criminal justice and finance. On the other hand, there could be a cadre of AI illiterates who risk social disempowerment. Colligan, a leading expert in technology and its social impacts, told the Guardian AI literacy must become a universal part of education on a par with reading and writing to avoid a social divide opening up."
A 10-year-old taught and retrained an AI to distinguish drawings, demonstrating intuitive understanding of machine learning among children. Primary school coding clubs are enabling pupils to build and adjust AI models with ease. Many children are growing up as AI natives who are familiar with the technology from an early age. Philip Colligan of the Raspberry Pi Foundation warns of a potential societal split between people who grasp and can control AI and those who cannot. Automated decision-making already affects housing, welfare, health, criminal justice and finance. Colligan calls for AI literacy to be as fundamental as reading and writing to avoid social disempowerment.
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