Event Description
The AI in Education Summit was an all-day, in-person, invitation-only gathering of around 80 participants from across education, technology, the charitable sector and government. It was part of the AI Fringe inspired by the UK government's global AI Safety Summit.
Prior conversations with dozens of people revealed huge enthusiasm for a meeting that would:
- Foster communication across the often separate silos of education, technology and government in order to share diverse experiences and viewpoints
- Provide a low-risk environment in which to express emerging ideas, nagging concerns and contentious speculations
- Adopt an expansive definition of AI that goes beyond chatbot tutors into areas such as adaptive assessment, predictive analytics and curriculum design
- Adopt a similarly broad view of education that encompasses not only compulsory schooling and higher education, but also self-study, professional development and lifelong learning
The discussion was lightly structured and curated, with loosely themed sessions and brief thought-provokers to kick things off, but the main emphasis was on freeform debate in order that everyone could benefit from each other's perspectives.
The event was conducted under the Chatham House Rule, but we are pleased to share anonymised summaries of the conversations here: AI in Education Summit (edsummit.ai).
