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AI Literacy

AI literacy is an important working-life skill and part of today’s education. AI literacy means the ability to understand, use, evaluate, and apply AI responsibly, ethically, and sustainably. AI literacy consists of awareness, usage skills, evaluation skills, and ethical skills.

1. Awareness

  • You understand the basic principles of AI and what kind of an impact the use of AI can have in different situations. You know how AI tools and applications work, where AI is used, and what opportunities and challenges AI usage brings.
  • You grasp the role and potential of AI in our current society and in the future.
  • You can concretize the effects of AI on your own work and when planning to develop your skills.

2. Usage skills

  • You use AI tools and applications efficiently, responsibly, and appropriately in work, studies, and other daily activities.
  • You apply AI creatively to various tasks and problem-solving.

3. Evaluation skills

  • You evaluate the reliability and quality of AI systems and the accuracy of the information they produce. This includes the skill of critical thinking that helps you identify errors made by AI.
  • You recognize the differences between AI applications, for example, from the perspective of data privacy and security. You understand that using protected organizational tools is different from using applications freely available on the internet.
  • You evaluate what data AI applications collect, how the data is used, and where it is stored. This is important for using AI responsibly and effectively.

4. Ethical skills

  • You recognize key ethical principles and operate with AI in accordance with these ethical principles. This includes, for example, considering data security and privacy, good scientific practice, copyrights, and responsibility in the use of AI.
  • You use AI responsibly, sustainably, and transparently.

Develop your AI literacy

Go to Jamk’s Copilot service and ask the AI to tell you about a topic you know a lot about. An excellent topic choice is yourself.

Step 1: Ask ‘Who is xx?’ and then review the AI’s response as an expert on the subject. It’s eye-opening to see how the AI combines letters, words, and sentences, and emphasizes random perspectives without criticism.

Step 2: You can try to improve the AI’s response by asking for clarifications or providing additional information to the AI. Discuss the topic with the AI until you notice how peculiar the AI’s responses can be and how convincing these inaccuracies might seem.

Click the New Chat button to start fresh with Copilot on a new topic.

Step 1: Ask AI about a topic you know nothing about. The topic could be, for example, space technology, Aboriginal traditions, the application principles of logarithmic functions, or the nature of love. For an abstract question about the nature of love, you might get a fairly accurate answer right away, which with a few small edits could become content for a social media post that garners a huge number of likes.

Step 2: When it comes to the application principles of logarithmic functions, we are at the core of utilizing AI. For an expert on the topic, the AI’s response is clear text from which they can easily distinguish accurate information from nonsense. For a non-expert, the critical evaluation of the AI-generated content and verification of the claims’ accuracy lies ahead. This requires reliable sources such as peer-reviewed articles or literature on the subject.

In the context of universities of applied sciences, or really anywhere else, AI is not a direct content creator but an ideation assistant, a conqueror of the fear of a blank page, a force that pushes you into motion like a nudge on a sledding hill.

When you interact with AI:

  • Write precise prompts and explain in detail what you want the AI to do.
  • Give the AI a role to respond from: ‘You are a professional in AI usage/an experienced study counselor at a university of applied sciences/a 45-year-old student with a family starting their studies at a university of applied sciences.’
  • Include words in the prompt that you want the AI to use in its response.

When you receive a response from the AI:

  • Examine the response, ask clarifying questions, and request corrections, provide additional information.
  • Verify the AI-generated content by comparing it to reliable sources. Refer to these sources, not the AI.
  • Explain how you used AI to reach the final result.
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