Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an ultra-growth area located at the crossroads of a myriad of walks in modern life and academia. Further developing themselves, AI technologies are bringing transformational changes to industries and activities of day-to-day life. No doubt understanding AI for school students has technological dimensions but can also have economic, social, ethical, and practical ones. This is because young learners need to stay ahead in their highly digital lives.
Here are 10 lesser-known facts about AI that school students should know.
Regional AI Applications: Different uses of AI across states in the country, tuned to the needs of that region — like agricultural AI tools in rural areas for crop assessment and urban AI applications for traffic management.
AI in Indian Languages: Developments of AI technologies that support a good number of official languages in India make digital tools more accessible to a varying population.
AI and Accessibility: Artificial Intelligence makes assistive technologies for differently-abled — those that turn text into speech or help communicate for those who cannot hear.
AI in Healthcare: This technology is fast gaining ground in India in diagnostics, right from reading X-rays to predicting the risk of a patient based on past data.
Ethical AI Development: India is actively contributing to discourses on ethical AI internationally and will develop frameworks to ensure that the development and use of AI are driven by requirements for them to be in tandem with societal values.
AI Literacy in Education: Graded introduction of AI literacy in the Indian education system will make the students ready for an all-AI environment.
Employment impact: Job landscapes are what AI is all about — making new roles while automating others.
AI for Social Good: AI projects in India are solving local social problems — from predicting the monsoon to monitoring the levels of pollution in cities.
Privacy concerns to the fore: With growing AI, concerns from a data privacy perspective would be at stake. India itself is evolving rules concerning ‘data protection’.
Bias and Fairness in AI: Artificial Intelligence systems, unless duly managed, mirror a predisposition to the ingestion of human bias. This acts as an issue when systems are highly pervasive within the everyday decision framework.