Stephen Downes

During yet another presentation in which the dangers and shortcomings of AI were being presented, once again from the perspective of teachers who really felt their students need to be warned, I wondered aloud why they weren't also sharing what could be done with AI. And of course it has in part to do with the fact that the affordances of AI cut across the workflow of the average instructor like a power saw across thin cardboard. And so the despair of teachers and professors is not surprising. And I had to ask myself, what would I do in their shoes. Put my own assignment though the AI and share the result with the class? As one person suggested, that would show how much my assignments need to be changed. But what I'd probably do is share my exploration of my subject with the AI with the class. Doing a logic class? Let's see how the AI does on argument analysis. Writing up lab results? Let's see that the AI does with that - and let's see what it suggests as an experiment.