Study sheet: Artificial Intelligence and Society

📋 Course Outline

1. AI Definition and Examples
2. Criteria for Responsible AI
3. AI Lexical Toolbox
4. Science Fiction and Future Visions
5. Robots, Humans, and Dystopia

📖 1. AI Definition and Examples

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Artificial intelligence : is most of the time represented by a chatbot that can help people and give advice

★ Must-know

• Artificial intelligence is presented as a true breakthrough that is going to revolutionize the world.

Further detail

• The five examples of AI listed in the course are:
  • chatbots
  • self-driving cars
  • GPS
  • code
  • vacuum robots

📖 2. Criteria for Responsible AI

📝 Essential Points

• An AI should:
  • be eco-friendly
  • respond like a human
  • respect the prompt
  • verify information before giving it
  • avoid responding badly

💡 Memory Hook

E-H-P-V-K: eco-friendly, human-like, prompt-respecting, verified, kind

📖 3. AI Lexical Toolbox

📝 Essential Points

• The lexical toolbox presents AI-related terms including algorithm, chatbot, computer system, computer program, data, device, software, privacy, ethics, safety, threat, and virtual assistant.

• The toolbox includes expressions for discussing AI's effects and use, such as:

  • to assist
  • to enhance
  • to improve
  • to imitate or mimic
  • to misuse
  • to overuse
  • to rely on technology
  • to pose a threat
  • to spark controversy

📖 4. Science Fiction and Future Visions

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Science fiction : is part science, part fiction, and part prophecy: it is a philosophy that pictures the future and science through novelists' work

📝 Essential Points

• The December 1958 issue of The Galaxy presents science fiction and includes works by Robert Sheckley, Willy Ley, MIT Dorfman, and Alfred Bester.

• The New Yorker cover from October 2017 is described as a journal of the future envisioned by artists.

💡 Memory Hook

Science imagines the future; fiction tells its stories.

📖 5. Robots, Humans, and Dystopia

★ Must-know

• The two covers show robots replacing humans, acting like humans, feeding society, and appearing superior to humans while giving coins to a homeless person who is begging.

📌 The two covers differ because the robot in the second image is scarier, the older robots perform boring tasks while the newer robots replace humans in daily tasks, and the older robots look futuristic whereas the newer robots look humanoid.

• Both covers illustrate a dystopic future in which robots may take over humans, replace jobs, and change the economy and society.

Further detail

📌 The robots on the 1956 cover all look the same, whereas the robots on the 2017 cover all look different.

💡 Memory Hook

Humans become needy while robots become superior.

📊 Synthesis Tables

Comparison of the Two Covers

Dimension	Older cover	2017 cover
Robot appearance	Futuristic machines that all look the same	Humanoid robots that all look different
Robot activity	Perform boring tasks	Replace humans in daily tasks
Overall impression	Robots look superior to humans	The robot is scarier and replaces humans