Help build understanding of AI, critical thinking, and ethical reasoning, safely.

Students are dropped into tricky ethical scenarios, from classic trolley problems to real-world uses of Artificial intelligence. Students compare their choices to different AI models. The characters of Inky and Bot help students explore important ideas like moral responsibility, the black-box of AI and the “problem of many hands”. The game is a safe, engaging way to grapple with some of the ethical tensions around AI.

Content warning: This game explores how we make tough decisions by asking you about tricky situations with no easy right or wrong answers. Some scenarios involve making choices about potential harm.

Students form teams to create and deploy AI bots on a simulated social media platform called 'Barn Wall'. Set in an Animal Farm-inspired world, teams compete to amplify or suppress target messages in a fictional election, learning firsthand how AI-driven disinformation campaigns work while building media literacy and critical thinking skills.

Dive into the fundamental distinction between syntax and semantics – the rules of language versus the meaning behind it. Students explore how AI systems process language by examining whether computers truly understand what they read or simply follow patterns. Through interactive challenges, players discover how this distinction shapes modern AI and large language models.