How can AI tools be designed and deployed to bridge educational gaps rather than widen them, ensuring all students, regardless of socioeconomic background, have access to high-quality education?
Dear Ramadan Elaiess ,
n education, AI offers benefits such as personalized learning, effective feedback and operational efficiency. However, it also poses risks, such as misinformation and loss of critical thinking skills.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/04/prepare-future-policy-ideas-ai-in-education/#:~:text=In%20education%2C%20AI%20offers%20benefits,loss%20of%20critical%20thinking%20skills.
https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/artificial-intelligence-education/
Regards,
Shafagat
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https://www.extremetech.com/internet/google-search-ai-is-giving-users-catastrophic-instructions
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceo-google-ai-hallucinations
I can see no reason whatsoever to introduce these technologies into classrooms or homework. If anything, education should be geared to living without LLMs, so students can avoid these tragic, and apparently insurmountable, flaws. Since education exists to fact-check and solve problems, education therefore exists to overcome and avoid AI in its current LLM forms.
If the flaws are solved, then and only then, should we re-open the question of using AI in classrooms.
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