Grades 9–10
Spam Filter Trainer
Pick training messages, test the filter and improve it. Get 6 of 8 test messages right to earn the badge.
Part of AI Pathway: Applied AI
Each made-up message is scored on 3 features. Your filter compares new messages to your training examples.
Is this message spam?
Step 1 · Pick at least 4 training examples (0 picked: 0 “Spam”, 0 “Not spam”)
What this game teaches
- Classifiers learn from labelled examples
- Biased or one-sided data gives biased results
- AI and cybersecurity meet in spam and phishing filters
Play together
- Look in a junk folder together — what features do spam messages share?
- Discuss: who is harmed when a filter gets it wrong?
Want more? This game comes from AI Pathway: Applied AI
See the program Prompt engineering, research verification, data and privacy, responsible AI, AI security and a capstone pitch.