Harvard EdCast: Educating in a World of Artificial Intelligence

Senior Researcher Chris Dede isn't overly worried about growing concerns over generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, in education. As a longtime researcher on emerging technologies, he's seen many decades where new technologies promised to upend the field. Instead, Dede says artificial intelligence requires educators to get smarter about how they teach in order to truly take advantage of what AI has to offer."The But if you educate them for what AI can't do, then you've got IA [Intelligence Augmentation]," he says. Dede, the associate director of research for the National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education, says AI raises the bar and it has the power to significantly impact learning in powerful ways. In this episode of the Harvard EdCast, Dede talks about how the field of education needs to evolve and get smarter, in order to work with -- not against -- artificial intelligence. This is the Harvard EdCast. Chris Dede thinks we need to get smarter about using artificial intelligence and education. He has spent decades exploring emerging learning technologies as a Harvard researcher.