Artificial Intelligence, Youth Media, and the Future of Education

About a month ago in Pittsburgh, we brought together a group of educators, students, and technology users to ponder some big unwieldy questions about the intersection of education, artificial intelligence, and youth media. But instead of having attendees passively ingest ideas from a speaker on stage, the event started by giving every guest a chance to pause, think, and respond to a series of questions. How often do we draw the line between what we can do with tech to what we should do with it? I see a lot of focus on the "risk" of online spaces. When profit is the motivation of AI systems, there is always an overlooking of what people actually need and/or want.