July 9, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Education has released its guide, “Designing for Education with Artificial Intelligence.”
This guide aims to inform product leads and their teams of innovators, designers, developers, customer-facing staff, and legal teams as they work toward safety, security, and trust while creating AI products and services for use in education. The scope extends beyond those building large language models (LLMs) or deploying chatbots; it includes all the ways existing and emerging AI capabilities can be used to further shared educational goals.
“My thanks to the U.S. Department of Education for preparing these useful guidelines for ‘Designing for Education with Artificial Intelligence.’ I appreciate the report’s emphasis on trust and safety as major issues along with innovation and efficacy,” said Ashok Goel, director of the AI-ALOE Institute, a professor of computer science and human-centered computing in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and chief scientist with Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. “It will be interesting to see how these guidelines get operationalized in practice. At AI-ALOE, we have learned that the key is deep and sustained partnerships among various stakeholders, including AI technology developers, cognitive and learning scientists and engineers, and education practitioners.”
The new guide builds on the Department’s prior report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations.
