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Re:One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally ... by dredmorbius on Saturday March 18, 2023 @03:37PM (#35212354)
A monolithic AI also becomes a single point of epistemic and pedagogical control.

Whichever side or instance you care to consider, think of the capabilities of someone hell bent for leather on defining what is, or is not, included in an educational curriculum, at the primary, secondary, post-secondary, graduate, or professional degree level, and their ability to influence, overtly or covertly, through persuasion or coercion, what that is.

Even under present conditions of proscribed curricula and textbooks, individual instructors, libraries, librarians, and others can go against some imposed dogma to some extent. A world in which only a small handful of AI originators provide the direct interfact between each student and their education is a grim prospect.

I've noted several commentators in recent months discussion a similar situation in terms of popular culture and entertainment, most notably the influence China now exerts over cinema and sport. The notion that AI will continue to be largely a product of Silicon Valley, and subject to US or even generally Western influence, may not be a valid one.

Re:One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally ... by ben_w on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:54PM (#35213001)
I think that's a perfectly reasonable fear, but I am here mostly focusing on the idea that school itself stops being important when the AI can do whatever it is teaching the students.

(I don't think that fundamentally changes any of your actual arguments here, it just feels like we're talking about slightly different aspects of how this can go wrong).

Re:One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally ... by dredmorbius on Saturday March 18, 2023 @08:37PM (#35214726)
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