AI in Education

Traditional education values content: knowledge, skills, facts, abilities that can be taught and tested in preparation for a life of work. But what happens when AI can deliver content better, faster, and more efficiently than any human teacher? What happens when what you know is of no consequence compared with what an AI knows, and your contribution to the world arises from the quality of how you think?

AI has the potential to revolutionize education by personalizing learning experiences, providing instant and nore detailed feedback, and making education more accessible to people around the world. However, it also presents significant challenges and risks, including the potential for bias, privacy concerns, and the need for human oversight and guidance.

AI has the potential to revolutionize education by personalizing learning.

At EDSIL, we believe that the integration of AI in education should be approached with careful consideration of both its benefits and drawbacks. We advocate for a balanced approach that leverages the strengths of AI while addressing its weaknesses and mitigating its risks. This is not mere pragmatism: understanding the benefits and risks enables us to optimise AI integration by strengthening the quality of human input while relieving teachers of much of the routine work they have had to do historically.

Our mission is to harness the power of AI to create educational experiences that are engaging, effective, and meaningful for students. We work with educators, policymakers, and technology developers to ensure that AI is used in ways that enhance learning outcomes and promote equity and inclusion in education. One of the greatest dangers education faces in this Brave New World is that AI will be deployed as just a more effective means of delivering the same education conceived in terms of the same paradigm of human flourishing. Here at EDSIL we maintain that the paradigm is broken.

What if the paradigm is broken?

AI enables us to reconceive education in terms of a different model of human flourishing. But that presents individuals, societies, nation-states and their governments with a pressing and inescapable challenge: to decide what kind of world they want to live in and what kind of contribution they want to make to it. Education in the age of AI is no longer about preparing for a predetermined future but about shaping the future we want to create.

At EDSIL, we are committed to helping individuals and organizations navigate this new landscape.

One key question dominates the landscape - an ``elephant in the room'' inasmuch as it is the question nobody really wants to face - do we believe that human beings are born equal, deserve equal opportunities, and should be rewarded in terms of their impact on the world, or are we wedded to the historical paradigm beloved of right-wing, conservative thinkers that believes that people are born intrinsically differentiated not only in ability but in social status, in essence and in what we once rather-quaintly referred to as the quality of their ``souls''?'