Focus on AI and Education

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) creates new content in response to prompts, offering transformative potential across multiple sectors such as education, entertainment, healthcare and scientific research. However, these technologies also pose critical societal and policy challenges that policy makers must confront: potential shifts in labour markets, copyright uncertainties, and risk associated with the perpetuation of societal…

Generative AI can be a tremendous opportunity for human development, but it can also cause harm and prejudice. It cannot be integrated into education without public engagement, and the necessary safeguards and regulations from governments. This UNESCO Guidance will help policymakers and teachers best navigate the potential of AI for the primary interest of learners….

Drafts of the two AI competency frameworks will be presented and further refined during Digital Learning Week (4-7 September 2023).Frameworks will be launched at the next Digital Learning Week in March 2024. The AI competency framework for teachers will define the knowledge, skills and attitudes that teachers should possess to understand the roles of AI…

On August 16th, the drafting team of the Major Project on National Conditions Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released the “Demonstration Artificial Intelligence Law 1.0 (Expert Draft).” The “Demonstration Law” covers seven main chapters, including the general principles, support and promotion of artificial intelligence, AI management systems, obligations of AI developers and…

The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI…