Fairfield University has been awarded a three-year, $231,958 grant by the National Science Foundation to lead a collaborative project focused on advancing artificial intelligence ethics education.
Fairfield will partner with Prairie View A&M and Indiana Tech on the project. The awards to those institutions brings the total funding for the project to almost $400,000.
Sidike Paheding, the chair and associate professor of Computer Science at Fairfield University’s School of Engineering and Computing, is the principal investigator of the project.
He will also work with Charles F. Dolan School of Business Associate Professor of Management David Schmidt. The goal of the project is to improve the effectiveness of AI ethics education for computer science students,
“Among its many challenges, AI poses significant ethical issues that need to be addressed in computer science courses. This project will give faculty practical, hands-on teaching tools to explore these issues with their students,” Schmidt said.
The team will develop a pedagogical strategy over the course of the project, including classroom discussions on AI ethics case studies, and an open-access repository of case studies to equip students with practical tools for ethical decision-making.
