The Generation AI project addresses three interconnected societal challenges:
- The weakening of safety, control and sense of free will in a data-driven society
- Declining trust in authorities, media, science, civil society and citizens, and
- Rapidly growing inequality related to the control and agency of constantly changing information and communication technology.
The project develops interventions in the context of early childhood education and school education that can improve children's resilience in a technology-driven world, create and promote cybersecurity thinking and equip teachers with the insights and pedagogy needed to transform curricula. In addition, the project advances research on children's rights (CRC) in the field of artificial intelligence.
The project builds a foundation on which to construct technology education for the "AI generation": technology education that takes into account the principles of artificial intelligence, the opportunities it offers and its dynamic impacts—not forgetting its shortcomings and risks or how AI systems can increase polarization, discrimination, insecurity and erode trust.
The project supports learners' understanding of safety and trust in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based systems. The project measures its impact on learners' data agency and their ability to work with complex and non-linear processes and make them less unpredictable and polarizing.
The project enables learners to identify the consequences of their often unconscious choices made online. It illustrates how biases creep into systems and create algorithmic discrimination and inequality. It sensitizes learners to questions of governance, technological determinism, and who has power over data use and in what ways user trust can be misused.
The project brings together technology developers, schools, authorities, businesses and non-governmental organizations. It strengthens children's and young people's ability to face the global societal impacts of technology and produces pedagogical tools for teachers for the transformation of learning.
Educating children and young people about the technology on which future society is increasingly dependent is one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. Inspired by this challenge, the "Generation AI" project produces and sharpens scientific understanding that enables educational solutions responsive to the skills needs of the AI generation
