How universities worldwide are responding to generative AI
University World News continues its exploration of generative AI in our new special report on ‘AI and Higher Education’. In commentaries and features, academics and our journalists around the world investigate issues and developments around AI that are impacting on universities. Generative AI tools are challenging and changing higher education systems and institutions — how they are run as well as ways of teaching and learning and conducting research.
We've collated the lead articles below for you to read and the full report is available here.
How will AI alter the student experience? Experts weigh in
Jenae Cohn - United States.
AI technology is here to stay, and it is worth higher education leaders’ time to think about how to engage with it to protect student privacy, enhance the student experience and help all stakeholders prepare for a future of working with powerful technology.
Keeping human values at the heart of AI in higher education
Jenny Dixon - Global
In the rush to adopt new technologies, universities are at risk of compromising the most human of skills such as compassion and emotional intelligence. But it is precisely those values that hold the key to helping machine learning technology serve educators better.
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AI study in universities must be broad, multidisciplinary
Rajani Naidoo - Global
AI will have huge consequences for the world – positive and negative – and every discipline needs to have input. Universities have a responsibility to embrace AI but also to highlight dangers and construct ways to help make AI a force for the common good.
AI and epistemic injustices: Garbage data in, garbage out
Savo Heleta - Global
Before we entrust more power to artificial intelligence in higher education, we must remember that AI tools and platforms propagate the biases, bigotry and epistemic injustices that have plagued higher education worldwide since the European colonial conquest and which continue to this day.