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KV7001 PG CIS Semester 2: Summative writing assessment You have until 23.59 on Friday 9th December 2022 to complete this task. SUMMATIVE WRITING TASK Using the sources used in class (listed below), write a short essay of 350 words (5-6 paragraphs) in formal academic style on the following question: AI and automation may create huge unemployment; they are a social disaster waiting to happen. Discuss. Instructions: • Make sure to answer the question fully, not just describe the topic or paraphrase the texts (critical

thinking). • Support your discussion with evidence from the texts we read in class (use ONLY the sources

provided, listed below, which are all on Blackboard). • You will need to paraphrase and summarise relevant information from the texts using your own

words, sentence structures, and text organization – include citations. • Use one or two short direct quotations ( ‘quotation’ ), when appropriate, in your essay; give

citations for these. • Use Harvard-style citations and references (must include a reference list). • Word process your essay in MS Word; use Calibri 12 font and single line space; block paragraphs;

add page numbers bottom right.

These are the sources used in class:

Frank, M. R. et al. (2019) ‘Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor’, PNAS 116(14), pp. 6531-6539.

Nam, T. (2019). ‘Citizen attitudes about job replacement by robotic automation.’ Futures 109, pp. 39-49. PWC (2018) Will Robots Really Steal Our Jobs? Available at https://www.pwc.com/hu/hu/kiadvanyok/assets/pdf/impact_of_automation_on_jobs.pdf (Accessed: 18/11/20). Vox (2017) The big debate about the future of work, explained. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmyygCMMGA (Accessed: 18/11/20). Wired.com (n.d.) ‘AI and the future of work.’ Wired.com. Available at https://www.wired.com/wiredinsider/2018/04/ai-future-work/ (Accessed: 20/10/20).

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SUBMIT YOUR WORK AS A SINGLE MS WORD DOCUMENT VIA TURNITIN (on Blackboard) BY 23.59 on

Friday 9th December 2022 (no pdfs please) IMPORTANT: • PLEASE put your name on your work (1st page, top right) • PLEASE save your work as an MS Word file (no pdfs) like this - File name: your ALS class code, day and time of class, FAMILY NAME and ‘formative’, like this:

KV7001_ Monday_13_ SMITH_summative Also use this as the name / title of your document uploading to Turnitin. Please enter details into Turnitin clearly, so your work can be easily identified. Thank you!

Extra help - Skills Plus (NU library)

Help with essay planning and academic writing:

https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/academicwriting

Cite them Right (referencing):

https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/referencing-plagiarism#table1

Skills Plus guide – referencing and plagiarism:

https://library.northumbria.ac.uk/skillsplus/referencing-plagiarism

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KV7001 PG CIS - Semester 2: SUMMATIVE PRESENTATION TASK Task Prepare and deliver a 5-minute individual Powerpoint presentation on a topic of one of your Engineering and Environment assessments. Instructions • Think about the assessments you are doing for your other EE modules this

semester

• Choose one of these assessments to present on (for example, a project you are

doing)

• Prepare to explain it to the audience (your class) at a non-expert level

• Make a PPT to help your presentation. For your ppt, you must have a cover

slide, an outline slide, and a references slide. The main body of the ppt should

be no more than four slides

• The presentation must be no longer than five minutes long, but not considerably

shorter than 5 mins

• You must not read out your presentation verbatim from a script or from your PPT

• Presentations must be your own original work and you must not repeat a

presentation already given or read out an assignment

• Presentations will take place in Weeks 18 and 19 (order to be decided on the

day – so be ready!)