Note that the assignment below is just a reproduction of the information on the git for informational purposes. If you’re in 497, you’ll want to continue to check the git version, that is what you will be responsible for!

Designing your Complex Info Processing System (AI)

Let’s think through existing AI systems using the Benjamin chapter & Simon chapter and get a back of the napkin sketch of a reimagined system

Name a real-world example of an existing AI system that is problematic in that it actually enacts existing problematic social systems/practices
Describe this system in terms of (your perceived high-level) goals, environment, and adaptations of the system.
Describe a potential reimagined system in terms of goals, environment, and adaptations. How does it improve upon the system described in 2?

This is meant to allow us to begin to bridge from designing independent of implementation, to designing along side implementation. This is also meant to have us think about how our AI systems are developed within existing social contexts.

Remember, you can draw pictures/diagrams to augment your words (for the G, E, and A).

Goals

What might be the goals of the AI system?

Environment

What is the environment that the system will be adapting within?

Adaptation

How might the system adapt to the environment given the goals? How might it’s inner environment change?

Instructions

Create a new markdown file called design-AI.md within this directory
Fill in your answers to 1, 2, and 3 within the markdown. Make sure to keep it organized and to remember you can use media, links, etc. as you will
For organization, start each answer with this format - # 1. _Name a real-world example of an existing AI system that is problematic in that it actually enacts existing problematic social systems/practices_, #2. _Describe this system in terms of (your perceived high-level) **goals**, **environment**, and **adaptations** of the system._, etc.
Submit your design-AI.md file to the submission link on Canvas.