Cultivation of human centered artificial intelligence: culturally adaptive thinking in education (CATE) for AI.

Journal: Frontiers in artificial intelligence
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Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in human society, and yet vast segments of the global population have no, little, or counterproductive information about AI. It is necessary to teach AI topics on a mass scale. While there is a rush to implement academic initiatives, scant attention has been paid to the unique challenges of teaching AI curricula to a global and culturally diverse audience with varying expectations of privacy, technological autonomy, risk preference, and knowledge sharing. Our study fills this void by focusing on AI elements in a new framework titled Culturally Adaptive Thinking in Education for AI (CATE-AI) to enable teaching AI concepts to culturally diverse learners. Failure to contextualize and sensitize AI education to culture and other categorical human-thought clusters, can lead to several undesirable effects including confusion, AI-phobia, cultural biases to AI, increased resistance toward AI technologies and AI education. We discuss and integrate human behavior theories, AI applications research, educational frameworks, and human centered AI principles to articulate CATE-AI. In the first part of this paper, we present the development a significantly enhanced version of CATE. In the second part, we explore textual data from AI related news articles to generate insights that lay the foundation for CATE-AI, and support our findings. The CATE-AI framework can help learners study artificial intelligence topics more effectively by serving as a basis for adapting and contextualizing AI to their sociocultural needs.

Authors

  • Yana Samuel
    Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, United States.
  • Margaret Brennan-Tonetta
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
  • Jim Samuel
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
  • Rajiv Kashyap
    William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, United States.
  • Vivek Kumar
    University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
  • Sri Krishna Kaashyap
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
  • Nishitha Chidipothu
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
  • Irawati Anand
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.
  • Parth Jain
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.

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