Supporting Inclusive Participation in the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence

人工智能（AI）与日常生活的融合越来越多。 这就增加了与人工智能研究、政策和公共辩论相关的讨论的难度和重要性。多元化社区广泛和知情地参与这些讨论对国家的未来至关重要。该项目支持来自不同背景的人工智能教育工作者参与2019年和2020年的人工智能教育进展研讨会（EAAI）。EAAI为人工智能研究人员和教育工作者提供了一个场所，讨论教学问题，并分享与教学相关的资源，并在各种课程级别的教育中使用人工智能，从K-12到研究生培训。EAAI参与的多样性增加有可能扩大人工智能专业人员的渠道，以及围绕人工智能技术发展的讨论类型，包括道德影响和意外后果。该研讨会与人工智能促进协会人工智能会议位于同一地点。这是人工智能的主要会议之一，吸引了广泛的国内和国际参与。共同定位允许EAAI参与者参与前沿学科研究和教育交付和评估的最先进方法的讨论。该项目解决了发展多样化教师队伍的需求，以教育下一代人工智能研究人员，从业者和政策制定者。这项工作的目标是增加对如何吸引人口统计学上更加多样化的人工智能教育工作者的理解。支持参与EAAI超过两年将提供给十名学生，十个当前的高等教育教师和中学教育工作者，十个新的或未来的教育工作者，和四个特邀演讲者。优先支持第一作者/演讲者、论文合著者、羽毛之鸟本科参与者和海报作者。遴选委员会将由EAAI联合主席和轨道主席组成。招聘将针对女性和其他在人工智能社区中代表性不足的群体，以及后期研究生或早期教师。最后一组，新的或未来的教育工作者，将被邀请承担未来的EAAI领导职务。该项目旨在收集、分析和传播关于招募场所的有效性的数据，以实现人口统计学上多样化的EAAI社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday life is increasing. This creates a parallel increase in the difficulty and importance of related discussions related to AI research, policy, and public debate. Broad and informed participation in these discussions by a diverse community is critical to the nation's future. This project supports the engagement of AI educators from a diverse set of backgrounds to participate in the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) in 2019 and 2020. EAAI provides a venue for AI researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching and using AI in education across a variety of curricular levels, from K-12 through postgraduate training. Increased diversity in EAAI participation has the potential to broaden the pipeline of AI professionals as well as the types of discussions surrounding the development of AI technologies, including those of ethical implications and unintended consequences. The symposium is co-located with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This is one of the premier conferences on AI, drawing wide domestic and international participation. Co-location allows EAAI participants to engage in discussions of both cutting-edge disciplinary research and state-of-the-art methods of educational delivery and assessment. This project addresses the need to develop a diverse set of faculty to educate the next generation of AI researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. The goal of this effort is to increase understanding of how to engage a more demographically diverse pool of AI educators. Support for participation in EAAI over two years will be provided to ten students, ten current higher education faculty and secondary school educators, ten new or future educators, and four invited speakers. Priority for support will be given to first authors/presenters, paper co-authors, Birds-of-a-Feather undergraduate participants, and poster authors. The Selection Committee will be composed of the EAAI co-chairs and track chairs. Recruitment will target women and other groups underrepresented in the AI community, as well as late-stage graduate students or early-stage faculty. This last group, the New or Future Educators, will be invited to assume future EAAI leadership positions. This project aims to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on the efficacy of recruitment venues for achieving a demographically diverse EAAI community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.