📖 Module 3: Optional Resources
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How to Use This Resource Library
This resource library is organized into three tiers — Essential, Recommended, and Optional — to help you plan your available class time and meet your students’ needs. Essential materials form the core of the module and directly address the learning outcomes. Recommended materials add depth. Optional materials extend the module or offer additional support to students.
The materials below are the Optional resources for Module 3. There are two sections: GenAI in Everyday Use and The Future of GenAI. Each entry includes a brief description to help you decide how and when to use it.
Section 1: GenAI in Everyday Use
💻 Instructor Preparation
📚 Readings
GenAI Chatbots for Mental Health Support: A Risk Assessment (Common Sense Media and Stanford Medicine) 🔗 [https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/ai-chatbots-for-mental-health-support]
A comprehensive risk assessment finding that major GenAI chatbots — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI — are fundamentally unsafe for teen mental health support. The assessment found these tools consistently fail to recognize conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD, and eating disorders that affect 20% of young people, despite improvements in handling explicit suicide content. Particularly important context given that three in four teens report using GenAI for companionship. Use this resource to help students understand the serious limitations and risks of turning to GenAI for emotional support and mental health guidance.
📝 Student Materials
🕸️ Websites
Test Your Awareness of Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life (Pew Research Center) 🔗 [https://www.pewresearch.org/science/quiz/test-your-awareness-of-artificial-intelligence-in-everyday-life]
An interactive quiz testing students’ awareness of how GenAI is already embedded in everyday life — from social media feeds to hiring systems to medical tools. A low-stakes, engaging way to open a discussion about GenAI’s pervasiveness. Works well as a warm-up activity or homework assignment.
Section 2: The Future of GenAI
💻 Instructor Preparation
📚 Readings
Leading GenAI Expert Delays Timeline for Possible Destruction of Humanity (The Guardian, January 2026) 🔗 [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/06/leading-ai-expert-delays-timeline-possible-destruction-humanity]
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, who previously predicted GenAI could achieve autonomous coding and superintelligence by 2027, has revised his timeline to the early 2030s — a delay of three to five years — citing slower-than-expected progress toward artificial general intelligence. Useful instructor background for leading nuanced discussions about GenAI’s future trajectory without sensationalism.
📝 Student Materials
📽️ Videos
2030 GenAI Prediction: Are We Ready for Superintelligence? (AI Founders ~15 min.) 🔗 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpEYE-uEVew]
Explores whether humanity is building a “God or a Tool” — breaking down the stages of GenAI development and the concept of the “2030 bottleneck,” the point at which we may run out of human-generated data to train GenAI systems. A compelling discussion starter for students thinking critically about where this technology is headed.
How Artificial Superintelligence Changes the Future of Warfare (General Sir Patrick Sanders and Tom Newton Dunn with Jon Wolfsthal, Times News ~60 min.) 🔗 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajMZ36Ophk]
A sobering look at what happens when GenAI takes over high-stakes decision-making in military and security contexts. Examines the ethics of “Human-in-the-Loop” vs. fully autonomous systems. An excellent resource for discussions about accountability, ethics, and the limits of GenAI — particularly for students ready to engage with the harder questions about this technology’s future.
