AI 2 - Defining Intelligence

Objectives/ Standards/ Skills

Students will:
•Read about the historical debates on the
meaning of artificial intelligence, and how
definitions of intelligence have changed over
time.
•Debate and gain a clearer understanding of the
difference between the terms ‘intelligence’ and
‘knowledge,’ and why those distinctions matter
in the current discourse on artificial intelligence.
•Discuss the ways people have understood
intelligence in both people and in machines.

Materials

•Judith V. Grabiner article “Artificial Intelligence:
Debates about Its Use and Abuse.” found at

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315
086084900296

•Alistair MacFarlane article “Information,
Knowledge & Intelligence.” found at

https://philosophynow.org/issues/98/Information_Kno
wledge_and_Intelligence

Related Lessons

•Cyber Ethics - Digital Technology, Harms, and
Trust