Agendas around AI and education have been dominated by technology designers and vendors, business interests and corporate reformers. There is a clear need for vigorous responses from educators, students, parents and other groups with a stake in public education. What do we all want from our education systems as AI-driven automation becomes more prominent across society?
Source: Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching | BERA
We need teachers, clinicians, and clinician educators involved in the process of designing, developing, implementing and evaluating AI-based systems in the higher education and clinical context. As long as the agenda for 21st century education and clinical care is driven by corporate interests (and how could it not, given the enormous commercial value of AI), it’s likely that those responsible for teaching the next generation of health professionals will be passive recipients of algorithmic decision-making rather than empowered participants in their design.