Project summary

We want to continue creating accessible, down to earth educational material that raises public awareness on implications of day to day AI usage, and encourages ethical AI literacy in environments where AI can impact societally changing decisions, but are prone to careless human decision making acting upon such tools irresponsibly. We currently do so by delivering workshops in our local city and state, and want to scale our efforts to a national or even global effort as we believe increasing user literacy is a relatively low cost avenue for not only mitigating hardware safeguards but also diminish the chance of existential risk.

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

Our goal is to reduce the amount of human error that can result in AI catastrophies simply because someone on the input end did not adequately consider the impacts of their actions, and we want to do this by continuing to make educational resources that improve ethical AI literacy in general society. We hope to do this through making interactive content and hosting both online and in person workshops, hoping to translate the concept of responsible usage into a more understandable appeal to the everyday person. We hope in the long term to also ultimately provide a free and accessible platform which anyone can readily learn the risks that could arise in specific fields, including but not limited to certain occupations where AI can shape decision/policy making societally for the better or worse.

How will this funding be used?

It will enable us cover the costs of basic travel expenses, expanding the volume of physical workshops we host currently beyond our own financial constraints, the licensing of any material we use in our educational content as well as any online hosting we use to launch the online learning platform. We will dedicate our own time to this and commit all funding to operational costs rather than reimbursing such as salaries.

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

We currently have a team of ~30 volunteers from all walks (mostly university students!) that are passionate about this field and thus run different roles in creating material, physically delivering the workshops/online content and collecting feedback from the community about how we can improve our lesson material.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

The way we see it, most users of AI continue to be largely aware of the impacts or ramifications of irresponsible usage, and users in areas that could affect entire communities (government institutions, emergency services) could make a decision negligently without properly considering the aftermaths (eg. failing to adequately check for hallucinated data in a report that is applied to a budget allocating ambulances for a health district), and thus see more instances of sheer human negligence in causing harm through careless usage.


We have a longer argument for our case here if you are interested.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Op9elMzjxZvA00ZT-LrpldkxQPOqLpukHViXZ0tVE9c/edit?usp=sharing

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?

None.