NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI
NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI
Teachers are perennially in short supply — they expect money and rights and unions. Surely chatbots can fix this! NSWEduChat is from New South Wales in Australia. It’s supplied by Microsoft and is …
the people who originated this bullshit have a 177-page ebook full of exactly the kinds of essays you’d expect from TESCREAL propaganda
6This person likes the idea of electronic surveillance
It would not be possible for students to be coached specifically for an AI assessment, because the assessment would be happening in the background, over time, without necessarily being obvious to the student.
And by that I mean she really likes the idea of electronic surveillance
Imagine a classroom setting ten years hence where data about each learner’s movements, speech and facial expressions is automatically logged by passive capture devices within the fabric of the classroom. This information is combined with data about each learner’s performance recorded by the school’s assessment system and the teacher, parents and learner themselves. All this data is used to update the class teacher’s pupil records and to provide data for an AI-based teaching assistant that keeps track of every learner’s cognitive, emotional and meta-cognitive progress.
Why? To decide how quickly to ship the struggling students off to the minimum wage jobs, no vetting required!
The AI assistant [...] can identify and contact local entrepreneurs who are willing to come and talk to pupils about future work opportunities or how to be an entrepreneur.
Edit: also holy smokes this document is hard to read. It feels like trying to swim through thin air. I didn't realize it was possible to say so little with so many words, and that's saying something as I've had the misfortune of reading chat-gpt output.
10and that's from 2017, so it's the pure stuff
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