All that Glitters is not Gold
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Just because China has been vastly open to accepting AI implementation and experimentation in its country does not guarantee that it is leading the world. The country still faces a shortage of qualified teachers and established AI labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pace of including AI in education is more straightforward in China because the country already collects a large pot of citizen data. One of the concerns shared by David Yang, Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard, is that this AI technology that might develop in China to understand people\u2019s behavior may be exported heavily and used by other countries to accelerate their autocratic rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018AI is fundamentally a technology for prediction\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, autocratic countries would always be the first ones to grab hold of these technologies that allow them to have maximum control over their citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, many leaders have echoed concerns about the potential unethical use of AI without proper regulations. We hope that responsible governments make conscious efforts to leverage technology, but not at the expense of citizens\u2019 privacy or safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a new idea or technology becomes available and shows promising usage, powerful governments run to grasp the technology and take advantage of being early adopters. And why not? World economics works that way. The more resources and technological advancement a country has, the more influential and rich it becomes. Today, it is about AI. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[507,393,508,496],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai-in-education","tag-curriculum-development","tag-edtech-industry","tag-emerging-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n