articleSustainabilityJan 16, 2024GOLD OA

Artificial Intelligence Alone Will Not Democratise Education: On Educational Inequality, Techno-Solutionism and Inclusive Tools

University College London

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Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education claims to have the potential for building personalised curricula, as well as bringing opportunities for democratising education and creating a renaissance of new ways of teaching and learning. Millions of students are starting to benefit from the use of these technologies, but millions more around the world are not, due to the digital divide and deep pre-existing social and educational inequalities. If this trend continues, the first large-scale delivery of AI in Education could lead to greater educational inequality, along with a global misallocation of educational resources motivated by the current techno-solutionist narrative, which proposes technological solutions…

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Keywords
  • Curriculum
  • Inclusion (mineral)
  • Conversation
  • Scale (ratio)
  • Engineering ethics
  • Computer science
  • Sociology
  • Engineering
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Reduced inequalities
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