Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing, bringing both promise and concerns to the realm of education. In this session, Professor Rose Luckin will provide an overview of AI – what it is, what it can and can’t do – to dispel myths and provide clarity around its current capabilities. She will explore AI through three helpful lenses:

• First, AI as tools, such as those EdTech tools already assisting with personalised learning, automated assessments, and more – offering solutions to some longstanding educational challenges, though not without ethical considerations.
• Next, as AI progresses, education must keep pace in advancing distinctly human forms of intelligence. 
• Finally, students and educators themselves need to build AI literacy, understanding how these technologies work so they can interact safely and effectively. 

Guiding questions within this talk include:

• What role should AI play in the EdTech and the classrooms of the future?
• How can we develop wise policy and regulation around its use?
• What changes for schools, both structurally and culturally, will be necessary to gain benefits while mitigating risks?
• How can understanding of AI prepare both students and teachers not only to use it appropriately, but become the drivers of further progress toward more ethical innovation?