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Current generative AI risks can outweigh its educational benefits
Current generative AI risks can outweigh its educational benefits
Winthrop says her task force concluded that current generative AI deployment presents risks that overshadow its benefits because strong educational outcomes tend to come from narrow, strategic uses with vetted content and sound pedagogy.
- Speaker
- Rebecca Winthrop
- Topic
- Generative AI risks
- Source timestamp
- 22:06
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