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AI in the classroom
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Team 1 topic is AI in the classroom and more broadly how it can be used within the education sector. The two areas of applications can be split into uses for students and uses for teachers.
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Students can use various AI systems which mainly fall into AI tutoring systems and AI powered tools. I see that AI powered tools as an avenue that could impair a students learning by making tasks objectively easier (similar step change to have a basic calculator to a graphing calculator). Whereas the AI tutoring systems seem like an avenue which could level the playing field of education by allowing everyone globally to have a high quality private tutor (conditional on having a sufficiently effective and aligned tutoring system, which is a large conditional). The team point out fair observations in that current tutoring systems are working toward a poor metric of near term test scores. This is a poor objective as test score are a low information feedback and near term is not the goal of education. Furthermore this is exacerbated by profit driven companies being the developer of these products.
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There are various ways in which teachers can use AI systems as well. There are quite a wide variety of tasks which AI can help with like grading, lesson preparation etc. Like in the student space many of these tools are being developed with unclear objectives and with for-profit motives. Furthermore as the teachers directed AI systems work on classwide basis (as student directed tool could, but don't have to) they are collecting a large amount of data and have a large influence on the group. This means general privacy and surveillance concerns as well bias propagation are a concern.
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It seems like broadly an area that will see massive changes as we move forward. Globally there appears to be underfunding of education and stressed out teachers. Therefore any system offering help (even if bad in the long run) could be adopted. I would hope that more effort is focused on the next generation of minds and so not to let them be overly influenced by the system of the cheapest seller.
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Some question that I would of asked if I was there:
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- Any more information on the BrainCo headbands, Where was the -presumably- pilot study conducted? Seems like an overly creepy situation.
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- The misalignment of the developers incentives seem to of concern. Were there many projects that were from within the education sector (i.e no profit motives)?
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