Title: Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the EAAI 2017 New and Future AI Educator Program,
Abstract: The 7th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
(EAAI'17, co-chaired by Sven Koenig and Eric Eaton) launched the EAAI New and
Future AI Educator Program to support the training of early-career university
faculty, secondary school faculty, and future educators (PhD candidates or
postdocs who intend a career in academia). As part of the program, awardees
were asked to address one of the following "blue sky" questions:
* How could/should Artificial Intelligence (AI) courses incorporate ethics
into the curriculum?
* How could we teach AI topics at an early undergraduate or a secondary
school level?
* AI has the potential for broad impact to numerous disciplines. How could we
make AI education more interdisciplinary, specifically to benefit
non-engineering fields?
This paper is a collection of their responses, intended to help motivate
discussion around these issues in AI education.