Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Machines and Smart Robots With Science Activities for Kids

Illustrated by Alexis Cornell. Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids explores how machines develop into thinking, learning devices that can help humans perform tasks, make decisions, and work more efficiently. They can even help us have fun! Through a combination of hands-on STEM activities and student-paced learning, kids ages 10 to 15 discover the AI machines of yesterday and today and learn about uses in various fields, such as entertainment, the military, and health care. How can AI continue to improve our lives? Is there anything dangerous about AI? What are the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI? Essential questions, primary sources, and science-minded engineering activities let readers have a blast learning about the age of thinking machines we’re in right now.