Technology and AI¶
Readiness and care¶
Benign local computing before delegated agents or networked experiments
Use owned or explicitly authorized systems. No secrets in prompts; least privilege, spending limits, monitoring and rollback before delegation.
Security professional, system owner or data-protection officer for sensitive systems
Separate unaided explanation from AI-produced output; verify recovery without the model.
Computational thinking & algorithms¶
Understand: abstraction; decomposition; algorithm; complexity; data structures; automation
Judge: Know when a computational formulation helps and where verification costs dominate
Practice: Implement and compare simple algorithms
Evidence: Code + complexity/assumption defense
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Partial coverage: Algorithms, discrete models and complexity require the TS23 candidate test; numerical computing is not sufficient.
Software, data & network literacy¶
Understand: software architecture; databases; APIs; networks; distributed failure; observability
Judge: Recognize that 'the app works' is not the same as secure/reliable infrastructure
Practice: Build a small networked system and break it
Evidence: System diagram + incident exercise
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Partial coverage: OS, databases, networks and distributed-system failures require the TS24 candidate test.
Cybersecurity, privacy & identity¶
Understand: threat models; authentication; phishing; backups; encryption concepts; permissions; privacy
Judge: Match protection to threat, preserve recovery, minimize unnecessary data exposure
Practice: Harden personal digital setup
Evidence: Threat model + recovery drill
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AI mental models & capability limits¶
Understand: training/inference; representations; context; tools; agents; evals; uncertainty
Judge: Reason from evidence about a system rather than anthropomorphic intuition
Practice: Compare models on a controlled task suite
Evidence: Eval report + limitation statement
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AI delegation, provenance & verification¶
Understand: task contracts; permissions; provenance; evals; monitoring; rollback
Judge: Delegate execution without delegating accountability blindly
Practice: Run an agentic project with hidden tests
Evidence: Audit log + human defense
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- Human–AI Cognition, Trust & Delegation
- Metrology + experiments
- Organizations, Bureaucracy, Professions & Delegation
Digital governance, rights & concentration¶
Understand: platform power; standards; surveillance; speech; competition; infrastructure; AI governance
Judge: Recognize technical choices as institutional choices when they structure others' agency
Practice: Analyze a platform/model governance case
Evidence: Governance map + reform options
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