Prospects of AI in Education
Paul Standish (UCL IOE)

5.30-7.00 pm
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Bold, sometimes extravagant claims are made about the ways that AI will come to change education, and these can cause heady excitement in some and grave apprehension in others. A more realistic sense of the prospects and problems requires some consideration of the historical background, the contemporary policy context, and the ways of thinking that currently prevail.  Against this background, my discussion considers three Wittgensteinian lines of critique, regarding (1) the reduction of knowledge content and the displacement of judgement, (2) the dominance of algorithmic reasoning, and (3) the imagined advent of the robot teacher.  
 
Paul Standish is Professor and Head of the Centre for Philosophy of Education at UCLIOE. He has extensive teaching experience in schools, colleges and universities, and his research reflects that range. He is the author or editor of some twenty books, with a sustained interest in Wittgenstein, reflected in Beyond the Self: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the Limits of Language (1992, Ashgate) and Wittgenstein and Education: On not sparing others the trouble of thinking (2023, Wiley), co-edited with Adrian Skilbeck. He is President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and Co-Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education.
 
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