A recent report by the National Education Association states that artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize the educational experience of students and the professional experience of educators.
It goes on to say that educators have a responsibility to make sure the transformation to AI is a positive one.
Roman Yampolskiy is a computer science associate professor and AI safety researcher at the University of Louisville. In an interview with Eastern Standard, he said it is vital for people to learn how to work with AI now.
“We expect in the near future, it will take over, in terms of capabilities for average humans, and soon after for gifted and talented,” Yampolskiy said. “After that, nobody knows, it will be super intelligent and it will be deciding what to do with us rather than this discussion we're having about what to do with AI.”
Yampolskiy said that AI is here to stay, and telling students not to use it is unlikely to be effective in the long term.
“Maybe we need to redefine what we expect from students in terms of 'do your own work. ' Does that just mean collaborate with AI to produce the output we want? Perhaps at some level, that is what it will shift to. Honestly, no one can tell if a student did it or AI generated it. At this point, I suspect many teachers are using AI to grade it in the first place,” he said.
Yampolskiy is glad to see more and more students becoming comfortable with AI. However, he said he wishes students would not use it to complete their homework assignments so they can fully learn their subjects.
Hear more as Bridgitte Blom interviews Roman Yampolskiy later this week on Eastern Standard on WEKU.
