30 May 2024
Fundamental Educational Challenges – Awaiting AI-supported Solutions
With the creative support of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it may now be possible to solve the basic problems facing education across the world. But first it is necessary to define the underlying issues, within the context of education’s own transformation, and to agree on what success would look like. In this blogpost, Mike Douse puts... Read More
30 May 2024
AI and Unequal Knowledge in the Global South
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Alejandro Artopolous reflects upon the three levels of AI’s digital inequalities — the sociolinguistic nature of textual generative AI, AI literacy as human cognitive capacity and digital education policy. One of the key issues in debates around... Read More
30 May 2024
Making Education AI-Friendly
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Ben Williamson argues that far from being merely technical foundations for teaching and learning, AI infrastructure includes social and political technologies with potentially profound and unpredictable impacts on public education. After OpenAI released ChatGPT, industry analysts reported... Read More
30 May 2024
The "Friendly Users" Who Feed AI
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Joyeeta Dey and Radhika Gorur draw attention to how AI technologies are designed to configure their users and constrain how users engage with them. ‘User friendliness’ is a well-established concept in technology design. To encourage more and... Read More
29 May 2024
AI and Children's Rights
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Sonia Livingstone and Gazal Shekhawat call for a global public debate that includes children’s ideas about how to develop AI in ways informed by children’s rights. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, calls to ban its... Read More
29 May 2024
Towards Fairness and Justice in AI Education Policymaking
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem warns of the risks of digital poverty, “monolithic societies” and misinformation through AI. Considering the main elements of an ethical and just policy approach to AI in education should be done without giving in to... Read More
29 May 2024
The Heart in the Matter: Education that Forges an Equitable and Diverse AI Future
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Carolina Earle argues for participatory, feminist, innovative methods to achieve a more equitable, inclusive, diverse and just AI future through and for education. The inventors, owners and beneficiaries of AI have emerged from predominantly WEIRD (Western/White, educated/English-speaking,... Read More
29 May 2024
Keeping Young Children Safe: The Implications of Generative and Conversational Artificial Intelligence for Child Protection
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG’s 4th Policy Insights publication on “AI and Digital Inequalities”, Nomisha Kurian discusses the implications of AI for child protection. Babies born today will grow up in a world profoundly changed by artificial intelligence (AI), yet young children are often AI’s least-considered stakeholders. In recent years, generative... Read More
KIX EMAP SAMENA Team Retreat
Date: 12 – 13 June 2024 Location: Cox Bazar, Bangladesh The South Asia, Middle East, and North Africa (SAMENA) subregion of the KIX EMAP Hub will host its sub-regional team retreat in Bangladesh from June 12 to 13, 2024. The KIX EMAP SAMENA Team Retreat aims to facilitate collaborative discussions around the work in the... Read More