Chatbots and digital boundaries
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain the difference between human and AI interaction and identify the risks of unhealthy digital "friendships".
Key learning points
- Using AI can be beneficial for specific tasks such as answering questions or generating ideas as a starting point.
- Unhealthy digital friendships occur when users treat AI tools as humans, over-relying on them for human connection.
- Maintaining digital boundaries involves recognising that AI is a tool and should not replace real-life relationships.
Keywords
Chatbot - a computer program that talks to people online and gives answers by predicting what to say next
Anthropomorphism - treating something that is not human as if it has human feelings or thoughts
Empathy - understanding how someone else feels and being able to imagine what it is like for them
Common misconception
An AI chatbot will give me the same advice as a real-life friend if I am asking for help.
An AI chatbot is a computer program. It has no feelings, no life experience and no true understanding of you.
Teacher tip
In Task B of this lesson pupils are asked to create a poster, there a number of options for this task. They could create the poster offline, they could create using desktop publishing software or if they have access you could ask them to generate some content for their poster using AI tools.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is a data centre?
Q2.Why do data centres use water?
Q3.Discarded electronic equipment is known as .
Q4.Which task uses the most electricity?
Q5.In 2022, training the GPT-3 model used approximately how much electricity?
Q6.Why does AI hardware create more e-waste than normal computers?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the primary way an AI chatbot generates a response during a conversation?
Q2.Which term describes the tendency to give human thoughts or feelings to non-human things, like a chatbot?
Q3.Which of these might be a response a human might give, but a chatbot likely wouldn't?
Q4.Why might a chatbot say "I’m sorry to hear that" when you tell it you are feeling sad?
Q5.Which of the following is a sign of an unhealthy digital friendship with an AI chatbot?
Q6.What is the most responsible thing to do if you are feeling lonely or worried?
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