Educational Responses to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications: Problems and Promise

The recent appearance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications such as Google’s Bard tool and OpenAI’s ChatGPT series has brought forth a flurry reactions from both academic popular commentators ranging doom-laden pessimism to futuristic hyperbolic optimism. Both ends this spectrum are revealed in the educational literature with sharp contrast between critical accounts predicting decline standards those welcoming new means enhancing teaching learning. In attempt steer middle way these extremes, article examines merits demerits AI education alongside suggestion possibilities for working tools productive manner. relation ethical considerations raised by developments, it is suggested that best conceptualised powerful entities – perhaps ideally regarded non-human persons which need be utilised pragmatically regulated ethically partnership humans interests all us. Such model will especially important learners teachers who charged making sense rapidly changing environment.