AI in school, travel and messages

The idea

AI adapts practice in education, predicts traffic and routes in transport, and types, translates and filters messages in communication.

Where is the AI?

Think about a normal day. Where do you meet AI the most?

• At school
• On the road, travelling
• When I message or talk to people

Sort the tools

Each card is an AI tool. Tap School, Travel or Messages and talking to say where its job belongs.

Careful: some apps run on a phone, but their job is something else. Tap a group. Read the reason, then press Next card.

Sort by the job

What mattered was the job, not the device. A map app lives on a phone, but its job is travel.

Each of these tools uses data: your past practice, past and live traffic, or past messages. That is how it can adapt, predict or translate.

AI adapts practice in education, predicts traffic and routes in transport, and types, translates and filters messages in communication.

Voice typing, translation and spam filtering are everyday uses of AI in communication.

Notes

AI adapts practice in education, predicts traffic and routes in transport, and types, translates and filters messages in communication.

Your location is personal data. An app should ask first, and you can ask a trusted adult to help you check the settings.

Check yourself

Zoya's reading app picks her next story using the words she found hard in the last one. What is the app doing?

A bus company records when its buses reach each stop for a whole year. What can AI do with these records?

A map app finds traffic jams from where many phones are moving. What should the app do about this location data?

• Giving every student the same stories in the same fixed order. That is what a plain book or video does. Here the choice depends on Zoya's own reading, so it is not the same for all.
• Adapting to her, using what her own reading showed — correct. Yes. The app looks at her reading and adjusts what comes next. That is AI helping a student learn at her own pace.
• Picking a story at random so that reading stays fun. Random picks would ignore how Zoya read. The app uses her results to choose, which is what makes it adaptive.
• Find the stops and hours that run late, to plan better timetables — correct. Yes. Finding patterns in past records, such as which hours run late, helps people plan ahead.
• Clear the roads by itself, so that the buses run on time. AI can only find patterns and make suggestions. It cannot clear the roads, so people must act on what it finds.
• Very little, since AI can only use live camera pictures. AI works on many kinds of data, including tables of past records. Live pictures are only one kind.
• Ask permission, say how it is used, and let people switch it off — correct. Yes. Location shows where a person goes, so people should agree first and stay in control.
• Use it without asking people, because it only helps drivers avoid jams. People have the right to know when their location is used. Using it without asking breaks trust, even for a helpful purpose.
• Share each person's trips with friends so they can plan to meet. Trips are private. Showing them could put people at risk, so each person must choose for themselves.