Using AI to Move Past Uncertainty | Evaluating AI #7

When the Digital Inquiry Group showed high school students a chatbot’s confident but made-up answer, nearly half said they weren’t sure if it was true. Sam Wineburg explains the danger of “equivocation without investigation”: the act of admitting uncertainty but never taking additional steps to resolve it. Chatbots aren’t oracles. But armed with a few flexible strategies, students can use them to get closer to the truth. Sam Wineburg is co-founder of the Digital Inquiry Group, professor emeritus at Stanford University, and co-author, with Mike Caulfield, of Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online. The Digital Inquiry Group’s Civic Online Reasoning curriculum gives students research-backed strategies to sort fact from fiction online. Free lessons, assessments, and videos are available at https://cor.inquirygroup.org/. Part 7 of 7. Watch the full series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa195HxUPvNA #AIinEducation #AILiteracy #CriticalThinking