Five days. Twenty students. One Responsible AI Research Hackathon. Backed by an independent coalition of researchers and educators — preparing young people to actively shape and evaluate machine intelligence, not just consume it.
While typical outreach is dominated by coding, this programme shifts the focus toward critical systems-thinking — helping students define where human agency fits, what values we prioritise, and how to evaluate machine intelligence as it becomes commonplace.
Transforming participants into informed optimists — ethically grounded, clear-eyed about sociotechnical risks, and equipped with the agency to shape AI's trajectory.
Robust frameworks and leading tools — Gemini Gems, Gemini Notebook, and AI Studio — to build, test, and optimise AI systems responsibly.
Student trios build educational assistants with intentional cognitive scaffolding — guiding users with hints, analogies, and questions to protect human competence.
Gamified workplace missions benchmark problem-solving — generating verified "AI Workplace Readiness Profiles" that connect young talent to employers.
An intensive 5-day research hackathon, convertible into plug-and-play 30–60 minute Gamified AI Literacy Sprints for public forums nationwide.
Pedagogy grounded in the ASTC AI Public Engagement Typology and frontier research on sociotechnical safety and value alignment.
Each day pairs a frontier research framework with hands-on workshops and a hackathon milestone. Your progress is saved as you complete activities.
Explore model capabilities, detail expansion, and collaborative verification. Form hackathon trios and choose your Socratic domain.
Multi-stakeholder value-mapping, advisory harmlessness, and Hackathon Phase 1: ingest Theme Data Packs into Gemini Notebook.
Cultivate human agency and professional boundaries. Hackathon Phase 2: engineer Socratic system instructions in AI Studio.
Trust calibration cues and machine-language transparency. Hackathon Phase 3: run rigorous safety audits and compile logs.
Multi-agent coordination games, the epistemic commons, and the Grand Pitch of AI Project Cards to an independent panel of researchers.
The immersive 5-day cohort. Student trios investigate complex local and global issues, apply daily AI evaluation frameworks, and co-author comprehensive AI Project Cards.
Plug-and-play 30–60 minute sessions for public activation venues and national classroom rollouts — friction-free, facilitator-light, badge-earning.
Work through every activity, audit your own AI, and pitch your Project Card to an independent panel of researchers.
Begin Day 1 — The Mirror →