I asked these two prompts of Claude 2 this morning:
- Here is a more detailed expansion on the outline of what a typical day might look like in a school organized around AI.
- Describe what a higher education organization would look like with AI at its core.
I have included Claude’s responses embedded below if you want to look. (Just click in the box and scroll down.)
One question screams out–who pays for all the new toys and structures required? This is not a zero sum game where one day you have a bog standard educational edifice and then the next AI taketh over. Some might argue that what we need is a roadmap for a slo-mo takeover. I have a hard time imagining this. No one will support a new institution that will do away with their jobs or their babysitters. Look over Claude 2’s response and consider the big furball of assumptions built in. Now think about the cartoon below. Right? Right.
There are a lot of AI roadmaps being designed and sold to schools right now, but I don’t think of any of the ones I have seen as “miracle workers”. As long as our nations prioritize empire building as No. 1, nothing will happen and no miracles will occur at the meta level. Feedback from our past, wishful thinking hearkening to some golden age, won’t get it done. We had better be working from a feedforward model where we imagine in great detail many new roadmaps that we can experiment with. Yeah, I know, we are experimenting on children…which is what we have always done. At least we aren’t using experimental vaccines to do it.
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It seems to me that the approach to adopting AI is similar to the approach to using computers and the Internet 20 years ago. Some will adopt quickly. Some will follow, at a slower pace. Some will never adopt.
I place this thinking on a map, showing demographics of rich, middle class, and poor in America. The distribution to all communities, during school and non-school hours, will continue to favor the rich and leave the poor behind.