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AI and education: We need to know where this sudden marriage is heading

Despite its promise, the relationship has been fraught, raising more questions than answers.

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If machines are replacing jobs or reinventing them, we need informed, urgent conversations about how central we dare to make it so that learning remains relevant for the future.

If machines are replacing jobs or reinventing them, we need informed, urgent conversations about how central we dare to make it so that learning remains relevant for the future.

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What does “happily ever after” look like for artificial intelligence (AI) and education? No one seems entirely sure.

We’ve moved past the question of whether they should be together. Largely because AI didn’t wait for an answer. But making the relationship work, on terms that actually serve human development, is proving to be a Gordian knot.

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