This is an editorial (12 page PDF) introducing an upcoming special issue of the British Journal of Sociology of Education on the sociology of education and AI. Rather than summarize the articles, the authors offer three major arguments showing how sociology "offers a distinct and powerful way to scrutinise and interrogate these technologies": first, through analysis if AI hype, second, mappings and explanations of injustices that arise from AI in education; and third, how society is reordered as new and powerful AI entities enter the political economy. Sociology also, argue the authors, "pushes us to ask how everyday activities and small-scale processes around AI in education are 'inscribed within structures' and connected to macro-level societal dynamics." The article walks a fine line between advocacy of a sociological analysis of AI and a routine 'everything about AI is bad' reading of the subject. But it probably puts the articles in the special issue (which I haven't seen) into a useful context.
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