Artificial intelligence will bring back the ‘glittering spires’ of universities, chief executive at Jisc Paul Feldman predicted at a conference recently.
Speaking during a session exploring the challenges for the sector posed by artificial intelligence, Feldman described how little more than two decades after the internet driven third revolution in education, we are now facing a fourth one.
Like many previous revolutions, he said this would bring downsides, along with the many benefits. These would need to be managed, he insisted. Further, he explained how the third revolution had not changed education in the same way it had transformed other sectors. AI is going to be the technology that finally means we are going to fundamentally change, he said.
Feldman said that at the present time, artificial intelligence is “a misnomer” as the technology that it describes is currently merely learning and adapting. Further, he predicted that AI can transform ‘university sweatshops’, taking some 40% of those jobs that are bureaucratic, leaving teachers to do the higher value activities.
In a question and answer session, he predicted the 4th revolution would be the ‘best thing that has ever happened in the world for democratising education.’ He also described the potential of AI to support student wellbeing, noting research that revealed that students feel embarrassed talking to a human councillor but can ‘open up’ to a machine.
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