Crafting Tech's Project Description

Please fix the team members. Each team should list the five projects from most desirable to least desirable. Please send me your team's 5-element ordered list. The five projects are:

1. War-Torn Nations
2. AI Intersectionality (with some ideas from the "hopes and fears" projects perhaps)
3. Broken Morals
4. What the World Really Thinks About AI – From Hopes to Fears
5. Can AI Understand How We Fear... AI?

Deliverables? Of course:

1. A report/research paper (maximum 8 pages for main paper, because my attention span is like a goldfish’s).
2. Short Feasibility Study.
3. Short RAI Guidelines Test.
4. A link to a downloadable video presentation (yeah, it will be fun!). This should ideally be a 3-minute video pitch of your project (like Nima's. He and his business partner are Master students and won Slush 2024. If they did it, you can do it). More realistically, the "minimum viable video" is a video showing a powerpoint presentation for 3 minutes.

Grading Criteria

Here’s what matters to whoever is marking this:

• (5%) Your team diversity: Different skills, backgrounds, countries. Basically, if everyone’s called “Antonio” and studies Computer Engineering, rethink your team.
• (10%) The feasibility study: As per slide 13 in Lecture 7.
• (10%) RAI Guidelines Test: As per slide 2 in Lecture 6. In addition to filling the RAI cards in, please list the top 3 cards you found hardest to understand, and explain why.
• (15%) Quality of your video. This should ideally be like a pitch video of your project.
• (30%) Scientific execution. This accounts for a considerable part of your grade because it is extremely important that you are as scientifically rigorous as possible.
• (30%) Quality of your report. This accounts for another considerable part of your grade because it is extremely important that your report looks as polished and professional as the research papers you've read in this course.

Zero Grade Policy (Brutal but fair):

Grade = 0 if:

• You make up the data/analyses/results? Zero.
• You forget to submit? Zero.
• You’re late? Zero.
• You submit not according to instructions (e.g., a report of 9 pages as main paper)

Report Structure (Max 8 Pages for Main Paper)

Here’s the structure. Stick to it. In addition to title and authors' names, the report should contain 4 Sections:

1. Abstract – 3-4 sentences. Situation, Complication, Proposal.
2. Methods – How you tortured the data, aka how you analyzed the data. Which methods you applied. Which framework you built.
3. Results – Results, with interpretations plus your big “Aha!” moment.
4. Appendix (outside the 8-page restriction) – It should contain:
   • Declaration – If you used ChatGPT, just say it.
   • Division of Labour – Who did what. Don’t lie.
   • Team Diversity – Brag about how “global” and “interdisciplinary” you are.

Final Submission

Turn in:

• The report (PDF, max 8 pages). Submissions must be in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). Word users may use the Word Interim Template. Submissions must be a single PDF file: 8 (eight) pages as main paper, with unlimited pages for references and an optional Appendix (that can contain details on reproducibility, proofs, pseudo-code). The first 8 pages should be self-contained, since we are NOT required to read past that to grade your report.
• A link to a downloadable Video Presentation specified inside your PDF report.

Final Notes (Read this. Or don’t. Up to you)

• Pyramids, Pyramids: Use the Pyramid Principle to write your sections.
• Stay focused: No rambling about capitalism unless backed by your stats.
• Formatting Requirements: 8 pages. Not 9. Not 47.
• Make your research questions compelling: Ask yourself “Why should people care about my work?”