EAAI-22 Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program

Abstract

The 12th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-22, cochaired by Michael Guerzhoy and Marion Neumann) continued the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Program to support the training of early-career university faculty, secondary school faculty, and future educators (PhD candidates or postdocs who intend a career in academia). As part of the program, awardees were asked to address one of the following "blue sky" questions: •How could/should AI courses incorporate AI Ethics into the curriculum? •How could we teach AI topics at an early undergraduate or a secondary school level? •AI has the potential for broad impact to numerous disciplines. How could we make AI education more interdisciplinary, specifically to benefit non-engineering fields? •How should standard AI courses evolve? •How could we leverage AI education to promote diversity in the field? This paper is a collection of their responses, intended to help motivate discussion around these issues in AI education.