TITLE:
Past, Present and Tackling the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education: Maintaining Agency and Establishing AI Laws
AUTHORS:
Joanna Black
KEYWORDS:
Education, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Generative Artificial Intelligence, GAI, Educational Technology, Educational Media, Media Literacy, Critical Literacy, Information Literacy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.7,
July
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: The urgency to establish laws for using generative artificial intelligence
(GAI) is upon our society. At the end of the year, 2022 OpenAI made available to
an international public its ground-breaking
software, ChatGPT which is utilized by 1.8 billion users per month. Never before
has a technology application been so successful so quickly. In this paper, the author
outlines a history of artificial intelligence (AI), discusses ways in which generative
artificial intelligence (GAI) technologies are used today, and delineates the future
use of GAIs in education for all areas of study. A focus is on analyzing the advantages
and disadvantages of GAIs with particular attention to the consideration of human
agency versus machine agency. The author examines ways to avoid problems using GAIs currently. Also considered
are ways in which human beings can use GAIs in the future while maintaining
their own power, autonomy and control. To support
this, Marshall McLuhan’s laws for the electronic media are revised as “Laws of Generative Artificial
Intelligence” to aid
educators from kindergarten to higher education for teaching in the “GAI Era”.