RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers in Interdisciplinary AI

人工智能（AI）对日常生活的影响越来越大，从智能扬声器和数字助理到医学发现和司法判决。因此，人工智能技术的伦理和社会影响使得所有公民都必须了解其对社会未来的积极和消极影响。加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）的这个新的RET网站将为高中教师提供研究机会，以加深他们对人工智能领域的理解，同时开发课堂上使用的材料。教师将主要从服务STEM学生人数不足和社会经济背景较低的学生的地区的高中招聘。这个为期六周的暑期项目将包括一个为期两周的新兵训练营，让教师们为参与一系列应用程序的密集人工智能研究项目做好准备。在学年期间，教师将继续通过每月一次的晚餐研讨会与研究人员进行交流，在那里他们将交换意见并讨论人工智能研究的最新进展。这个来自加州大学圣地亚哥分校的RET网站的智力重点是跨学科人工智能，重点是深度学习的应用。这些高中计算机科学和数学教师大多来自总部位于加州大学圣地亚哥分校的计算机科学教师协会圣地亚哥分会（CSTA SD），他们将参加为期两周的暑期“新兵训练营”，然后与人工智能教师以及计算机科学与工程、认知科学和心理学的研究生进行为期四周的深入研究。其他目标是通过与教师合作和向教师学习，提高加州大学圣地亚哥分校教师与公众交流思想的能力。该团队还努力将参与者的想法纳入UCSD人工智能系统的教学中。最后，该网站的主要目标是让教师了解人工智能的伦理含义和当前的挑战，以促进学生的意识、讨论和兴奋。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having an increasing impact on everyday life, from smart speakers and digital assistants to medical discoveries and judicial sentencing. Therefore, the ethical and social implications of AI technologies make it imperative that all citizens understand both the positive and negative impacts on the future of society. This new RET site at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) will provide research opportunities for high school teachers to deepen their understanding of the field of AI while developing materials to use in their classrooms. Teachers will be primarily recruited from high schools in districts serving students who are underrepresented in STEM and from low socio-economic backgrounds. The six-week summer program will include a two-week boot camp to prepare teachers to participate in an intensive AI research project across a range of applications. During the academic year, teachers will continue to engage with research faculty through monthly dinner seminars where they will exchange ideas and discuss the latest updates in AI research. The intellectual focus of this RET Site from UCSD is Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on the applications of Deep Learning. The high school computer science and math teachers, mostly from the Computer Science Teachers Association San Diego Chapter (CSTA SD), which is headquartered at UCSD, will participate in a two-week summer “boot camp”, followed by four weeks of intensive research with AI faculty and graduate students from Computer Science and Engineering, Cognitive Science, and Psychology. Additional objectives are to improve the ability of UCSD faculty to communicate ideas to the public through collaborating with and learning from teacher participants. The team also strives to use ideas from participants that can be incorporated into teaching UCSD AI systems. Finally, the main goal of the site is that teachers understand the ethical implications and current challenges of AI to promote awareness, discussion, and excitement among their students.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.