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"Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size fits all."
"Recommendations: Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world. Center people, community, and the residential experience. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous reflection, iteration, and improvement"
Yes, it's 95% fluff, but there is a real admission here that the guidance really ought to accept that there will be a whole host of tasks/assignments that kids engage in where the assumption SHOULD be that they basically will leverage AI, and that for their own benefit, resources should be set aside to promote experiences -- both in the context of assessments but also even in the social sphere -- there the influence of AI will be very purposefully prevented.
That is an actual stake in the ground, I think (as far as it goes in context like this). I think I would have been hard-pressed to have predicted that there would be such a revolutionary technology where the explicit ask of MIT faculty would be to prevent its influence in the school.
For education I can’t imagine. You might have to resort to actual discussion in classrooms instead of homework, with the accompanying need for both more educators and higher quality therein. Which isn’t going to be easy when education is fully under regulatory capture (at least for K-12 in the USA)
> Students should not feel policed. Durable change will require instructors to be as clear as possible about their expectations and students to understand AI misuse as an unacceptable deviation from shared peer norms and community values rather than a violation of an arbitrary bureaucratic rule.
That fact, multiplied over 1000 different disciplines, is one of the ways that AI is going to bring amazing progress to our world.
https://www.philanthropy.com/news/can-a-350-million-gift-cha...
All concerns, while the real goal is stated right in the article:
"With this new approach, he says, experts in many fields can gain a deeper understanding of AI so they can better harness it. Meanwhile, computing experts are gaining greater exposure to the work of their counterparts in other fields. That exposure is giving the technologists a better understanding of how to create and train AI tools to better serve others."
I'm sure they will have many meetings about future meetings.
MIT is so very, very overcapitalized.
These things don't lead to anything other than a rich guy getting his name on a building, and more corruption in academia. By far the best thing which could happen to MIT would be for 95% of the endowment to go up in a poof of smoke, bringing it back to nineties levels. That's the end of the period when the Institute did high-integrity research.
Accurate description.
- 2.1. Be humble
- 2.2. Be bold
- 2.3. Put humanity front and center
- 2.4. Lean into learning
- 2.5. Teach with intentionality
- 2.6. No one size fits all
- 2.7. Augmentation not automation
- 2.8. Think beyond the classroom and the campus
- 3. Recommendations
- 3.1. Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world
- 3.1.1. Revisit course goals
- 3.1.2. Ensure durable learning through new course policies, structures, and forms of assessment
- 3.1.3. Emphasize experiential and project-based learning
- 3.1.4. Build structured in-person social learning into subjects
- 3.1.5. Preserve and expand out-of-class research and career experiences
- 3.1.6. Reconsider grades and incentives
- 3.1.7. Expand in-person spaces for labs and in-person evaluation
- 3.1.8. Provide AI use policies, with justification
- 3.1.9. Exercise caution with AI detectors and online exam platforms
- 3.1.10. Support responsible experimentation in the curriculum
- 3.2. Center people, community, and the residential experience
- 3.2.1. Define and communicate the value of residential education
- 3.2.2. Strengthen social connection and personal wellbeing
- 3.2.3. Encourage instructor disclosure around their own AI use
- 3.2.4. Teach effective, responsible, and ethical use of AI
- 3.2.5. Recognize and mitigate negative impacts of AI
- 3.2.6. Acknowledge AI use in theses and other research work
- 3.3. Build processes, teams, and tools for continuous reflection, iteration, and improvement
- 3.3.1. Establish an ongoing AI and education committee
- 3.3.2. Create school/college- or department-level AI Leads
- 3.3.3. Fund AI Fellows and an AI Implementation Team
- 3.3.4. Create an AI Pilot Fund
- 3.3.5. Provide ongoing training and instructor support
- 3.3.6. Develop metrics
- 3.3.7. Ensure equitable technology access
- 3.3.8. Protect sensitive data and preserve model choice
- 3.3.9. Establish privacy, logging, and auditing policies
- 3.3.10. Monitor AI costs and environmental impact
- 4. Conclusion
"My leg already had a cut on it. No need to worry about the new stab wound in my chest!"
Tell us more about how MIT giving AI some thought compares superiorly to 'many German universities', and please tell us more about which German universities and in which circumstances.
I'm just ignorant to German universities. Honestly, the only thing I know of is not even University level German education, but just the concept of the German gymnasium system, and that was from when a exchange student visited my high school, in the 1990s!
Thanks for the response. Cheers.
No, I can't provide a cite. Insider information. But whistleblowers have been threatened with being "Shwartzed" since (e.g. have frivolous criminal charges filed, to make their lives hell). In every case I've seen, whistleblowers signed an NDA, a non-disparage, and backed down.
That's why I don't trust a !@#$% thing from MIT anymore. Lies and fraud get covered up. Once that starts happening, you can't trust anything.
In this particular case that makes the message more trustworthy for me ;-)
Anyone put it into pangram yet?
And there aren't enough hobbyist learners to sustain education at its current level.
AI is an opportunity to improve true education and learning on an individual and community level based on free association without the authoritarian and violent hand of government imposing lowest common denominator uniformity on everyone to produce uniform and manageable, profitable pseudo-citizen cogs.