More than 130 higher education organizations, administrators, researchers and faculty members from 44 countries have collaborated to produce a set of core principles to guide development of artificial intelligence policies and practices at college and universities. The statement of principles was released Oct. 9, 2023, at the 18th annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Kyoto, Japan.
Elon University President Connie Ledoux Book introduced and explained the six principles that serve as a framework for institutions to take action on artificial intelligence:
(Read the detailed principles here)
Elon University Scholar-in-Residence Lee Rainie, who spent 24 years leading internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, was one of the lead authors of the statement on artificial intelligence and higher education.
We, as universities, have to come up with solutions for teachers and learners worldwide.
It is crucial that people who develop and deploy AI in higher education understand it sufficiently well to ask relevant questions and ensure that the datafication of higher education doesn’t prevent students from making important choices about their lives.
Calm down…cool down…let it be built on fact and reason.
The curriculum these days needs to be centered around AI, because whether we like it or not, it’s going to be with us for a very long time.
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