Constructing Dreams using Generative AI
Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Randi Williams, Prerna Ravi, Cynthia, Breazeal

TL;DR
This paper presents a workshop that educates high school students about generative AI, enabling them to create future visions, understand technical aspects, and consider societal impacts of AI-generated media.
Contribution
It introduces a novel educational approach combining hands-on AI creation with ethical reflection for high school students.
Findings
Students successfully used prompt engineering to create future dreams.
Students gained technical understanding of generative AI capabilities and limitations.
Students identified key societal benefits and harms of generative AI.
Abstract
Generative AI tools introduce new and accessible forms of media creation for youth. They also raise ethical concerns about the generation of fake media, data protection, privacy and ownership of AI-generated art. Since generative AI is already being used in products used by youth, it is critical that they understand how these tools work and how they can be used or misused. In this work, we facilitated students' generative AI learning through expression of their imagined future identities. We designed a learning workshop - Dreaming with AI - where students learned about the inner workings of generative AI tools, used text-to-image generation algorithms to create their imaged future dreams, reflected on the potential benefits and harms of generative AI tools and voiced their opinions about policies for the use of these tools in classrooms. In this paper, we present the learning activities…
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Taxonomy
TopicsEthics and Social Impacts of AI · Educational Games and Gamification
