Teaching artificial intelligence and sustainability through game-based learning

⚠️ This offer is not open to UMU and INALCO students

Course description

The course introduces the game-based teaching and learning concept Sust-AI-nability, which combines key questions of sustainable artificial intelligence (AI) with gamification and digital mini-challenges. In a strategic, turn-based board game, players make decisions regarding the development, use, and regulation of AI systems, experiencing real-world conflicts of interest and dilemmas between ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability.

Students first gain an understanding of sustainability in relation to and enabled by AI. They then take on the roles of gamers and game developers under guidance. The focus is on fostering critical thinking, systems thinking, and ethical reflection in the context of AI and sustainability. In addition, students gain insight into how AI can be incorporated into science lab courses.