[IES Mutxamel] AI for High Schoolers: Opportunities and Risks of AI (Sp)

I delivered with Diego Miguel Lozano an outreach talk for high-school students at IES Mutxamel during Science Week, focused on introducing artificial intelligence from both a technical and social perspective.

The session combined an accessible introduction to AI with a discussion of its broader implications:

• 🤖 What AI is: basic intuitions behind machine learning, data, models, and prediction.
• 🌍 Opportunities of AI: applications in science, health, education, accessibility, sustainability, and creativity.
• ⚠️ Risks of AI systems: bias, discrimination, misinformation, privacy, automation errors, and overreliance on algorithmic outputs.
• 🧠 Critical AI literacy: how to use AI tools responsibly, question their outputs, and understand their limitations.
• 🔬 AI as a scientific career path: introducing students to research, university studies, and the role of science in building better technologies.

The goal of the talk was to help students move beyond using AI as a black-box tool and start thinking about how these systems are built, evaluated, and deployed in society.

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