Q1 Managing Your Footprint: AI & Your Footprint
When using digital resources, it is critical that everyone acts and models digital citizenship in ways that are responsible, safe, legal, and ethical and don't harm others.
This Quest challenges you to consider some of potential impacts with generated Artificial Intelligence (AI) your digital footprint. Consider the following points:
- AI systems can collect, analyze, and use the information from your footprint that comes from your social media posts, likes, comments, and searches you conduct online.
- AI algorithms can create deepfake images or videos using your photos.
- Fake social media posts can be generated that appear to be from you.
- An application to a job, college or university may not accepted based on some of the information generated from your digital footprint.
Consider and Discuss:
Step 1. Play the video, "Is this Keanu account actually a deep fake? Is this legitimate?" and think about the two questions?
Direct link (4:17)
Step 2. Check with your teacher about discussing as a class, small group, or with a partner:
- How might your current online activities affect how others view you.
- How the use of AI could impact your future employment or schooling.
Step 3. Share your three or more ideas and actions you can take to protect your digital footprint.
Step 4: When done, take this ProProf 7-Question Quiz for the video (use the password: footprint.
The information (data) that a machine is trained with can bring about:
- Bias and discrimination
- Data privacy and security issues because the data is not always accurate or current
- Misinformation and manipulation
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
2. Digital Citizen
a. Cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world
b. Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using using technology
d. Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security
7. Global Collaborator
c. Contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal
Websites and Documents
Websites
Videos from Outside Sources
- Digital Footprint & Privacy YouTube (2:39 mins)
- Is this Keanu account a deepfake?/Is this legit? YouTube (4:17)
- Your Digital Footprint YouTube (3:21 mins)
21t4s Videos
21t4s Documents, Quizzes & Surveys