Lesson 5: Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Learning Intentions

Deconstruct the power dynamics between characters and reflect on how power dynamics may affect our decision-making.
Consult credible sources to investigate and record what responsible and ethical AI is, and what it could be.
Create dialogue to express how two people might discuss the ethical use of AI.

Watch

Review the interview with script producer Jessica Paine to explore the idea:

AI (HANC) could be good if the technology is used alongside ethical decision-making.

Reflect¬†

When the students arrived at the tech company Alethia for their internships, they were told it was compulsory to download the ‘Hermes’ app on their phones. Reflect on and discuss why this scene represents an unfair power dynamic between Peta - the tech company, ‘Alethia’ and the students.

Then, imagine how Alethia/Peta could act more ethically.

For example, Peta could have asked for the students’ consent, or provided an alternative way for the students to participate. Peta also could have provided detailed information about the app, including the privacy statement and terms and conditions. If this information had been provided before the internship onboarding, the students would have had an opportunity to review how their data would be stored and used.

Activity

Consult credible sources to explore what responsible and ethical AI could be.

Using the following line from Cat as a starting point, develop a short sequence of dialogue about the responsible and ethical use of AI.

Document the dialogue in your preferred format. For example, a script, voice recording or video capture.

“It doesn’t really seem like he (HANC) does the bad thing; he just kinda does what you tell him.”
– Cat, The PM’s Daughter

Australian Curriculum Links

Civics and Citizenship

Year 8

Years 9

Years 10

Skills | Questioning and researching

AC9HC8S01

Develop questions to investigate Australia’s political and‚ÄØlegal systems, and contemporary civic issues.

AC9HC9S01

Develop and modify questions to investigate Australia’s political and‚ÄØlegal systems, and contemporary civic issues.

AC9HC10S01

Develop and modify questions to investigate Australia’s political and‚ÄØlegal systems, and contemporary civic issues.

Analysis, evaluation and interpretation

AC9HC8S02

Locate,‚ÄØselect and organise‚ÄØinformation,‚ÄØdata‚ÄØand ideas from different sources.

AC9HC9S02

Locate, select and compare information,‚ÄØdata‚ÄØand ideas‚ÄØfrom a range of sources.

AC9HC10S03

Analyse information,‚ÄØdata‚ÄØand ideas about political, legal or civic issues to identify and evaluate differences in perspectives and interpretations.

Civic participation and decision-making

AC9HC8S04

Explain the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation.

AC9HC9S04

Evaluate the methods or strategies related to making decisions about civic participation.

AC9HC10S04

Evaluate the methods or strategies and outcomes related to making decisions about civic participation.

English

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Language |

Language for interacting with others

AC9E8LA01

Recognise how language shapes relationships and roles.

AC9E8LA08

Identify and use vocabulary typical of‚ÄØacademic texts.

AC9E9LA01

Recognise how language empowers relationships and roles.

AC9E9LA08

Analyse how vocabulary choices contribute to‚ÄØstyle, mood and‚ÄØtone.

AC9E10LA01

Understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people.

AC9E10LA08

Use an expanded technical and academic vocabulary for precision when writing‚ÄØacademic texts.

Literature | Engaging with and responding to literature

Share opinions about the‚ÄØlanguage features,‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØand‚ÄØtext structures‚ÄØthat contribute to the‚ÄØstyles‚ÄØof‚ÄØliterary texts.

AC9E9LE02

Present a personal response to a‚ÄØliterary textcomparing initial impressions and subsequent analysis of the whole‚ÄØtext.

AC9E10LE03

Analyse how the‚ÄØaesthetic‚ÄØqualities associated with‚ÄØtext structures,‚ÄØlanguage features,‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØand‚ÄØvisual features, and the‚ÄØcontext‚ÄØin which these‚ÄØtexts‚ÄØare experienced, influence‚ÄØaudience‚ÄØresponse.

Literature | Examining literature

AC9E8LE05

Analyse how‚ÄØlanguage features‚ÄØsuch as‚ÄØsentence‚ÄØpatterns‚ÄØcreate‚ÄØtone, and‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØsuch as‚ÄØimagery‚ÄØcreate meaning and effect.

AC9E9LE04

Analyse‚ÄØtexts‚ÄØand evaluate the‚ÄØaesthetic qualities and appeal of an‚ÄØauthor’s literary‚ÄØstyle.

AC9E10LE05

Analyse how‚ÄØtext structure,‚ÄØlanguage features,‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØand intertextual connections shape interpretations of‚ÄØtexts.

Literature | Creating literature

AC9E8LE06

Create‚ÄØand‚ÄØedit‚ÄØliterary texts‚ÄØthat‚ÄØexperiment with‚ÄØlanguage features‚ÄØand‚ÄØliterary devices for particular‚ÄØpurposes‚ÄØand effects.

AC9E9LE06

Create‚ÄØand‚ÄØedit‚ÄØliterary texts, that may be a hybrid, that‚ÄØexperiment‚ÄØwith‚ÄØtext structures,‚ÄØlanguage features‚ÄØand‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØfor‚ÄØpurposes‚ÄØand‚ÄØaudiences.

AC9E10LE06

Compare and evaluate how‚ÄØ“voice”‚ÄØas a‚ÄØliterary device‚ÄØis used in different‚ÄØtypes of texts, such as poetry, novels and film, to evoke emotional responses.

Literacy | Texts in context

AC9E8LY01

Identify how‚ÄØtexts‚ÄØreflect‚ÄØcontexts.

AC9E8LY05

Use‚ÄØcomprehension strategies‚ÄØsuch as visualising,‚ÄØpredicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in‚ÄØtexts.

AC9E9LY01

Analyse how representations of people, places, events and‚ÄØconcepts‚ÄØreflect‚ÄØcontexts.

AC9E9LY05

Use‚ÄØcomprehension strategies‚ÄØsuch as visualising,‚ÄØpredicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to compare and contrast ideas and opinions in and between‚ÄØtexts.

AC9E10LY01

Analyse and evaluate how people, places, events and‚ÄØconcepts‚ÄØare represented in‚ÄØtexts and reflect‚ÄØcontexts.

AC9E10LY03

Analyse and evaluate how‚ÄØlanguage features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent‚ÄØvalues, beliefs and attitudes.

Literacy | Creating texts

AC9E8LY07

Plan,‚ÄØcreate, rehearse and deliver spoken and‚ÄØmultimodal‚ÄØpresentations‚ÄØfor‚ÄØaudiences‚ÄØand‚ÄØpurposes, selecting‚ÄØlanguage features,‚ÄØliterary devices,‚ÄØvisual features‚ÄØand‚ÄØfeatures of voice‚ÄØto suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in‚ÄØtexts‚ÄØin ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical.

AC9E9LY07

Plan,‚ÄØcreate, rehearse and deliver spoken and‚ÄØmultimodal‚ÄØpresentations‚ÄØfor‚ÄØpurpose‚ÄØand‚ÄØaudience, using‚ÄØlanguage features,‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØand‚ÄØfeatures of voice‚ÄØsuch as volume,‚ÄØtone,‚ÄØpitch‚ÄØand‚ÄØpace, and organising, expanding and developing ideas in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.

AC9E10LY06

Plan,‚ÄØcreate,‚ÄØedit‚ÄØand‚ÄØpublish‚ÄØwritten and‚ÄØmultimodal‚ÄØtexts, organising, expanding and developing ideas through experimenting with‚ÄØtext structures,‚ÄØlanguage features,‚ÄØliterary devices‚ÄØand‚ÄØmultimodal features‚ÄØfor specific‚ÄØpurposes‚ÄØand‚ÄØaudiences‚ÄØin ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive, analytical and/or critical.

Health and Physical Education

Year 8

Year 9 + Year 10

Personal, social and community health | Interacting with others

AC9HP8P04

Examine the roles of respect, empathy, power and coercion in developing respectful relationships.

AC9HP8P07

Explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent.

AC9HP10P04

Evaluate the influence of respect, empathy, power and coercion on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships.

AC9HP10P07

Examine how strategies, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships.

AC9HP10P08

Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk.

Personal, social and community health | Making healthy and safe choices

AC9HP8P09

Investigate how media and influential people impact attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours in relation to health, safety, relationships and wellbeing.

Making healthy and safe choices

AC9HP8P09

Investigate how media and influential people impact attitudes,‚ÄØbeliefs, decisions and behaviours in relation to health,‚ÄØsafety, relationships and‚ÄØwellbeing.

AC9HP10P10

Plan, justify and critique strategies to enhance their own and others’ health,‚ÄØsafety, relationships and‚ÄØwellbeing.

Media Arts

Year 8

Year 9+10

Exploring and responding

AC9AMA8E01

Investigate the ways that‚ÄØmedia arts concepts‚ÄØare used in media arts works and practices across‚ÄØcultures, times, places and/or other contexts.

AC9AMA10E01

Investigate the ways that media artists use‚ÄØmedia arts concepts‚ÄØto construct representations in media arts works and practices across‚ÄØcultures, times, places and/or other contexts.

Critical and Creative Thinking

	Year 8	Year 9+10
Inquiring - Identify, process and evaluate‚ÄØinformation	Identify and clarify significant information and opinion from a range of sources, including visual information and digital sources.
Reflecting - Think about‚ÄØthinking‚ÄØ(metacognition)	Reflect on the thinking and processes used when completing activities or drawing conclusions.	Reflect on the thinking and processes used when completing activities and drawing conclusions.
Inquiring - Identify, process and evaluate‚ÄØinformation		Identify and clarify significant information and opinion from a range of sources, including visual information and digital sources. Identify the objective and subjective aspects of a complex concept or problem, with sensitivity to context.
Reflecting - Transfer knowledge	Transfer knowledge and skills gained in previous experiences to both similar and different contexts, and explain reasons for decisions and choices made.	Identify, plan and justify opportunities to transfer knowledge into new contexts.
Analysing - Draw conclusions and provide‚ÄØreasons	Draw conclusions and make choices when completing tasks by connecting evidence from within and across discipline areas to provide reasons and evaluate arguments for choices made

Ethical Understanding

Year 8

Years 9 + Year 10

Understanding ethical concepts and perspectives - Explore ethical‚ÄØconcepts

Analyse‚ÄØthe similarities and differences between ethical concepts, such as integrity, loyalty and equality, in a range of situations and contexts.

Evaluate‚ÄØthe consistency in meaning of ethical concepts, such as trust, freedom and rights and responsibilities, in a range of situations and contexts.

Explain how different traits, such as‚ÄØhonesty, trust, courage and selfishness interact with responsibilities or duties to determine ethically appropriate responses.

Explore and analyse examples of the tensions between conflicting positions on issues of personal, social and global importance.

Digital Technologies

Year 8

Years 9 + 10

Knowledge and understanding | Digital systems

AC9TDI10P02

Analyse and visualise data interactively using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends and outliers.

Processes and production skills | Privacy and security

AC9TDI10P14

Apply the Australian Privacy Principles to critique and manage the digital footprint that existing systems and student solutions collect.