Monday, September 11, 2023

"UNESCO calls for regulations on AI use in schools"

From the United Nations, September 7:

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday called on governments to regulate the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in education and research, including age limits for users.

The agency is also calling for guardrails on data protection and user privacy.

Publicly available GenAI tools, such as ChatGPT, can produce automated text, images, videos, music and software code. The platforms have evolved rapidly and are already in use by hundreds of millions around the world, including many students.  

However, very few countries have policies in place to ensure safe and ethical use of AI tools....

....MUCH MORE

I say let Google and Microsoft have at the munchkins, fill their little minds with whatever the LLMs are trained on.

Also at the U.N.:

An Ed-Tech Tragedy?
A new book about experiences with educational technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications for the future of learning"....

(654 page PDF

And the less memory intensive "Guidance for generative AI in education and research."

(44 page PDF)