Collaborative Research: EAGER: SaTC-EDU: Teaching High School Students about Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Ethics via Empathy-Driven Hands-On Projects

同理心是一种独特的人类能力，能够从他人的角度思考并感受他人，是一项不可替代的基本技能。虽然同情心是有价值的，但人们对技术开发中缺乏同情心感到严重关切。该项目旨在通过开发动手实验室来培训高中生，并增加他们对他人的同情心，以便他们能够识别网络安全和人工智能（AI）伦理问题，从而解决这一差距。在这个项目中开发的实践实验室将公开提供，以便学校或教师可以免费使用它们。这些实验室、研讨会和夏令营将提高高中生对网络安全和人工智能道德的知识、技能和职业兴趣。这些活动还将培养高中生对他人，特别是幼儿的同情心。该项目将帮助下一代劳动力学习和应用知识和技能，以安全和道德的方式设计和使用未来技术。该项目提出了一种完全不同的方法来整合网络安全和人工智能伦理教育。它将使用同理心驱动的方法，向高中生传授最容易受到网络安全和人工智能道德问题影响的幼儿。为了增强对幼儿的同情反应，该项目将包括与不道德的人工智能互动或暴露于网络安全风险的幼儿的真实例子。具体而言，该项目旨在开发、部署和评估实践实验室，以培训高中生，并在网络安全和人工智能伦理问题方面增强他们对他人的同情心。这些实验室将涵盖在线游戏、社交媒体、移动的应用程序和智能玩具等各种场景。除了基于知识的措施外，该项目还将探索使用尖端的非侵入性神经成像技术--功能近红外光谱（fNIRS），来评估这些实验室对与同理心相关的大脑区域激活的影响。高中生。该项目得到了安全和值得信赖的网络空间（SaTC）计划的特别倡议的支持，以促进网络安全，人工智能和教育领域之间新的，以前未探索的合作。SATC计划与联邦网络安全研究和发展战略计划和国家隐私研究战略保持一致，以保护和维护网络系统日益增长的社会和经济效益，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Empathy, a unique human capacity to think from others' perspectives and feel for others, is an essential skill that will not be replaced by automation. While empathy is valued, there have been serious concerns about its absence in technology development. This project seeks to address that gap by developing hands-on labs to train high school students and to increase their empathy of others so that they can identify cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) ethics issues. The hands-on labs developed in this project will be made publicly available so schools or teachers may freely use them. These labs, workshops, and summer camps will improve high school students' knowledge of, as well as skills and career interests in, cybersecurity and AI ethics. These activities will also foster high school students' empathy for others, especially young children. This project will help the next-generation workforce learn and apply knowledge and skills in designing and using future technologies in a secure and ethical manner. This project presents a radically different approach to integrating cybersecurity and AI ethics education. It will use an empathy-driven approach to teach high school students about young children who are most vulnerable to cybersecurity and AI ethics issues. To enhance empathetic responses to young children, the project will include real-life examples of young children who are interacting with unethical AI or exposed to cybersecurity risks. Specifically, this project aims to develop, deploy and evaluate hands-on labs to train high school students and to increase their empathy of others in the context of cybersecurity and AI ethics issues. The labs will cover a wide variety of scenarios such as online gaming, social media, mobile apps, and smart toys. In addition to knowledge-based measures, this project will explore the usage of a cutting-edge non-invasive neuro-imaging technique, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), to assess the impact of these labs on the activation of brain regions associated with empathy in high school students. This project is supported by a special initiative of the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program to foster new, previously unexplored, collaborations between the fields of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.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.