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Information and Artificial Intelligence includes stories on the latest technologies, including how algorithms work, who benefits from these systems, and who is harmed. Explore the stories below to find one that interests you. Then, use this worksheet to support you with writing a letter that asks a decisionmaker to take action.
Stories for Grades 3 and Up
| STORY | MEDIA | PUBLICATION | CONTENT WARNINGS |
| “A Crisis of Connectivity: Internet Access in Rural PA” by Jordan Wolman | Photo, Text | WLVR: Lehigh Valley Public Media | N/A |
Stories for Grades 6 and Up
| STORY | MEDIA | PUBLICATION | CONTENT WARNINGS |
| “Blind Internet Users Struggle With Error-Prone AI Aids” by Joanna Kao | Text, Graphs | Financial Times | N/A |
| “How Your Data Ends Up in AI Training Sets” by Niamh McIntyre | Text | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | N/A |
| “Tracked and Traced: How Thousands of American Muslims Ended up on the Terrorist Watch List” by Nargis Rahman and David Leins | Audio, Text | WDET | N/A |
| “Tech Giants Made a Home in Ghana. Now They’re Quiet on Its Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill.” by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu | Photo, Text | protocol | N/A |
| “Companies Are Selling AI Therapy. Should You Buy It?” by Ben Rein | TikTok video with transcript | OpenMind Magazine | N/A |
Stories for Grades 9 and Up
| STORY | MEDIA | PUBLICATION | CONTENT WARNINGS |
| “A Transparent, Open-Source Vision for U.S. Elections” by Spenser Mestel | Text | Undark Magazine | N/A |
| “The Platform Proletariat” by Tatiana Dias and Sofia Schurig | Video, Text | The Intercept Brasil | N/A |
| “Inside the BJP’s WhatsApp Machine” by Srishti Jaswal | Photo, Text, Social media posts | Rest of World | Video of police aggression |
| “Essay: Is the Next Misinformation Crisis Fear-Based and Local?” by Lam Thuy Vo | Text | Just Tech | N/A |
| “The Black Box” by Arijit Douglas Sen and Derêka Bennett | Video, Photo, Text | The Dallas Morning News | Discussion of suicide and mental health crises, mass shootings, and police violence |
| “How an Algorithm Denied Food to Thousands of Poor in India’s Telangana” by Tapasya, Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava, and Divij Joshi | Video, Photo, Text | Al Jazeera | N/A |
| “‘There Is No Standard’: Investigation Finds AI Algorithms Objectify Women’s Bodies” by Hilke Schellmann and Gianluca Mauro | Photo, Text | The Guardian | N/A |
| “The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires” by Karen Naundorf and Sarah Pabst | Photo, Text | WIRED | N/A |
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