AI and the Future of Education

It has become clear that AI will profoundly transform society. AI will dramatically change the socio-technological landscape, produce seismic economic shifts, and fundamentally reshape the workforce in ways that we are only beginning to grasp. With its imminent arrival, it is critically important to deeply engage with questions around how we should design education in the Age of AI. Fortunately, while we must address the significant challenges posed by AI, we can also leverage AI itself to address these challenges. In this talk we will consider how (and at what rate) AI technologies for education will evolve, discuss emerging innovations in AI-augmented learning environments for formal and informal contexts, and explore what competencies will be elevated in an AI-pervasive workforce. We will discuss near-future AI technologies that leverage advances in natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning to create narrative-centered learning environments, embodied conversational agents for learning, and multimodal learning analytics. We will conclude by considering what all of these developments suggest for K-12 education and the future of human learning.