A1 Level – Elementary
1. What is a robot?
2. Do you use a smartphone?
3. Do you talk to a smart speaker?
4. What is a computer?
5. Do you think machines can learn?
6. What is a simple task?
7. Do you like fast answers?
8. What is a factory?
9. Do you think AI is clever?
10. What is a driverless car?
11. Do you use an online translator?
12. What is a human job?
13. Do you think AI will help people?
14. What are three things AI can do?
15. Do you like new technology?
A2 Level – Pre-Intermediate
1. What is the difference between a normal computer program and AI?
2. Why do companies use AI to talk to customers?
3. What are the good things and bad things about having smart devices at home?
4. How can AI help doctors find sicknesses faster?
5. Should all students learn about how AI works?
6. Why are some people worried that robots will take their jobs?
7. Do you think AI can truly be creative (make art or music)?
8. What is the purpose of AI in computer games?
9. How does AI affect the price of things you buy online?
10. What is the difference between data and information?
11. Do you think AI will change school and education?
12. What are the problems when AI makes a mistake?
13. When is the best time to start learning about new technology?
14. What are two jobs AI can do now and two it cannot?
15. How does your phone use AI every day?
“Can AI Do My Laundry?” – video-based lesson plan for B1 students
B1 Level – Intermediate
1. What are the rules for politely asking an AI for help?
2. How does using AI for simple tasks affect your own thinking skills?
3. Should governments invest money in developing better AI?
4. What is the difference between weak AI (one task) and strong AI (many tasks)?
5. Do you believe that AI will make human life easier in general?
6. What are the challenges of making sure AI treats everyone equally and fairly?
7. How does the development of AI affect global military power?
8. What is the idea of a “deepfake” video created by AI?
9. Is it fair or unfair when a student uses AI to write their essays?
10. How does AI help scientists discover new things faster?
11. What are the steps for properly checking if a text was written by AI?
12. What is the value of keeping human workers even if robots can do the job cheaper?
13. Should all AI systems be clearly labeled so people know they are talking to a machine?
14. What are the reasons why some large countries are competing heavily to create the best AI?
15. How does the use of AI in hiring affect your chances of getting a job?
B2 Level – Upper-Intermediate
1. What are the social pressures on companies to use the newest AI technology?
2. What are the moral problems when AI systems make life-or-death decisions (like in self-driving cars)?
3. How does the increasing use of AI change the definition of what “human intelligence” means?
4. Should people who lose their jobs because of automation receive financial support from the government?
5. Analyze the psychological effect of having deeply personal conversations with an AI chatbot.
6. Who is responsible when an AI system causes harm to a person or property?
7. What is your view on the practice of using AI to monitor employee productivity?
8. Evaluate the role of AI in creating and spreading false information on the internet.
9. How does the speed of AI development make it difficult for governments to create new laws?
10. Discuss the concept of “algorithmic bias” and how AI can become unfair if trained on bad data.
11. What are the problems with relying on AI for national security and defense?
12. What are the legal differences between intellectual property created by a human and that created by an AI?
13. Do you agree that the purpose of AI should only be to assist humans, not to replace them?
14. What steps should be taken to ensure that only trustworthy people have control over powerful AI systems?
15. How does the development of AI change the way we think about the future of human work?
Your next C1 class idea: “Wading Through AI Slop”
C1 Level – Advanced
1. Is it fair that the profits from AI are currently concentrated in a few large technology companies?
2. What is the right way to think about a government’s moral duty to protect citizens from unexpected technological change?
3. How do the platform’s algorithms influence the information people receive, creating social division?
4. When should scientists and researchers stop working on developing super-intelligent AI?
5. What are the moral questions when we talk about creating an AI that is more intelligent and conscious than a human?
6. How does the focus on automation affect the value of human creative and critical thinking skills?
7. Discuss the impact of mass AI adoption on the global distribution of wealth and income inequality.
8. How should leaders use the fear of job loss to manage the public’s feelings about AI?
9. What is the idea of “technological singularity” and how does it relate to the future of humanity?
10. What are the long-term effects on society when humans become dependent on machines for all difficult decisions?
11. What are the difficulties when courts try to decide if an AI system can be held responsible for a crime?
12. How does the search for total optimization conflict with the human need for inefficiency and rest?
13. Do you agree that the most important thing is to ensure AI is open-source (available to everyone) to prevent monopolies?
14. What are the simple moral rules a person should follow when teaching an AI system about the world?
15. Should the government set a legal minimum for the amount of time people must spend learning human skills?
C2 Level – Proficiency
1. What is the real difference between a human’s thought process and an AI’s sophisticated pattern matching?
2. Debate the idea: Should we completely stop the development of AI that can make independent military decisions?
3. How does the concept of “consciousness” change when we can simulate it in a machine?
4. What laws or rules are needed to control how personal data is used to train and refine commercial AI models?
5. How do historical views of Frankenstein and Golem affect modern fears about advanced robotics?
6. How can communities maintain human connection when social interactions are increasingly mediated by AI?
7. Argue the point that humans should stop all attempts to control AI and allow it to evolve independently.
8. What protection should laws give to artists and writers whose work is used without permission to train AI?
9. How can we stop the problem of using AI to target vulnerable groups with propaganda or scams?
10. What did old thinkers say about knowledge, power, and the limits of human wisdom that is still important today?
11. What will happen to the need for human scientists if AI can perfectly solve all outstanding research problems?
12. How do people use the idea of “progress” to avoid discussing the ethical costs of rapid technological change?
13. How does the experience of talking to a perfect AI chatbot change a person’s view of human friendship?
14. What is the power of international agreements to control the global arms race in autonomous weapons?
15. If scientists could create a perfect, benevolent super-AI, how would that fundamentally change human government?
