Project Partners from Technische Universität Braunschweig
Project Partners from Israel Institute of Technology (Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion)
Description
In this forward-looking research project, a joint team of science communication and education researchers from Germany and Israel critically and reflectively rethink the concept and measurement of science literacy in adult life against the background of future developments of artificial intelligence. It is located at the intersection of science communication, human-machine communication and science education, examining users’ perspectives of an AI system as a science communicator and their ability to use it to support evidenced-based science-related decision-making in everyday life scenarios. IBM’s “Project Debater”, the first AI technology to meaningfully engage in a live debate with a human, is used to create narratives on various socio-scientific issues, be implemented in interviews and online surveys, and be embedded with performance tasks and RTR measurements. This will result in robust and systematic benchmarks for further research on public engagement with science supported by AI, and has the potential to enable the contextualization of science literacy measurement to better align with current conceptualizations of the term, impact media literacy and digital literacy education, and inform technology design in making better AI tools for humanity.
Duration
October 2022 – September 2025
Funding
Niedersächsisches Vorab - Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, Volkswagen Foundation