New Thoughts about AI Literacy

Description

The growing impact of Artificial Intelligence in many areas of economy and society calls for the public and citizens to have some understanding of AI. Yet we lack a totally convincing definition of AI literacy, especially due to the rapid changes in the technology in the last year. We can build on earlier work on algorithmic literacy (e.g. Dogruel et al., 2022). We also have an influential definition of AI literacy from an HCI perspective in the work of Long and Magerko (2020). The webinar offers three perspectives on AI literacy. 1. To gain an awareness of previous definitions of AI literacy 2. To think through how recent developments in AI require us to rethink the concept of AI literacy 3. To reflect on the value of alternatives to multiplying conceptualizations of literacy