Stephen Downes

Open source software is different from open education, of course, but there is overlap in the two communities' rejection of AI. In this post Justin Fowler outlines the four major open source arguments against AI and shows that they don't have a basis in fact. The objective isn't to get everybody to support AI, but rather, to foster a more productive dialogue about it. Meanwhile, "there's a coherent version of the pro-AI argument that says: AI vendors are toolmakers, not platform owners. Judge them by what their users produce. And the produce here is overwhelmingly more open source, faster." If the same holds true of open education, then we too need to reframe our discussion. Via Liam Proven.