A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education
Updated: Feb 21, 2024
Image courtesy of Critical AI, Duke University Press
I thank my readers for their patience as I worked on the following piece for the journal Critical AI this summer, and I’m honored to be featured as their Sneak Preview piece for the second issue of the journal, a special issue on LLMs, which will be published in February 2024. I hope you will find some value in it; if so, please share! Ultimately I hope that it will help us develop policies that protect us and our students as we engage with these technologies.
A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education, Critical AI blog, July 2023.
(cross-posted on Substack, July 20, 2023).
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