Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay, and schools will have to find a strategy to make the most of it as a tool, but also ensure students can think on their own, rather than depending on a machine to think for them. Moreover, given the importance of AI in the technological and scientific sectors in particular, the United States must improve its STEM education.
Putting our heads in the sand and ignoring AI in education is not an option: As teachers around the country have found out, cheating has become easier with generative AI, as students are able to outsource their thinking to the machine faster and easier than ever before—but, on a more positive note, making problem sets and giving students individualized assignments and support has also never been faster and easier. While carelessly allowing AI use will hamper students from learning, failing to incorporate it at all will put us behind both educationally and technologically, relative to the rest of the world.
Here’s the issue of artificial intelligence and education in 60 seconds: