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Reflecting on the scope chosen by Blackboard for our working group - "Ethical use of AI in Education" - it's worth considering what, if anything, makes education different as a venue for artificial intelligence. Education is, I think, different from commercial businesses because our measure of success should be what pupils/students achieve. Educational institutions should have the same goal as those they teach, unlike commercial settings where success is often a zero-sum game.

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One of the concerns commonly raised for Artificial Intelligence is that it may not be clear how a system reached its conclusion from the input data. The same could well be said of human decision makers: AI at least lets us choose an approach based on the kind of explainability we want. Discussions at last week's Ethical AI in HE meeting revealed several different options:

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