Hong Kong rolls out first AI curriculum for junior secondary students, including lessons on ChatGPT, with ‘lives definitely affected by artificial intelligence’
- Students expected to learn basic AI concepts, computer vision, speech and language, robotic reasoning, AI ethical issues, and the technology’s impact on society
- They will also be taught to generate pictures and write letters with mirror sites of ChatGPT
Hong Kong has rolled out the first curriculum in the city on artificial intelligence for junior secondary students, including on the use of ChatGPT as well as ethics and social impacts of the technology.
According to a memo distributed by the Education Bureau to more than 450 public secondary schools, teachers are asked to incorporate a total of 10 to 14 hours of AI education into the information and communication technology (ICT) subject for Form One to Three students from September.
Students are expected to learn basic concepts of AI, computer vision, computer speech and language, robotic reasoning, AI ethical issues, and the resulting social impact.
Contents of the curriculum are adopted from deliverables of “AI for the Future Project”, an AI education project for secondary students launched in 2017 by Chinese University.
“Nearly 50 per cent of the curriculum focuses on ethics and social impacts of AI,” said Yam Yeung, a research professor at the university.
“It is important for students to know powerful tools like AI could be both good and bad for society. I hope students can have a good understanding of how to use AI well,” added Yam, who headed the “AI for the Future Project”.
Generative artificial intelligence, which is the latest development of AI and represented by ChatGPT by OpenAI, is also included in the curriculum.