Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is a popular subject among teenagers around the world. AI education focuses on data, algorithms and computing, teaching students to write programs.

Algorithm and programming are essential parts of AI but are generally taught in universities. Students need to have a good foundation in maths and computer science.

However, AI education for teenagers should be designed according to the extent of their knowledge and learning capacity rather than the content in university classes.

A scientific understanding of AI should be listed in education and values. Teenagers are in a critical period of life when their worldview takes shape. As AI education is popularized, they need guidance from schools, parents and society so that they have the ethics to apply AI in the future without harming others.

This is an edited excerpt of an article originally published in China Education Daily on January 18