With the acceptance of $23 million from Microsoft and OpenAI for an AI teacher training institute, we now know that Randi Weingarten has led the AFT over the cliff on AI.
Meanwhile, the news media is reporting on a new Common Sense Media study that show that AI bots regularly exhibit racial bias when asked to design learning tasks or behavioral interventions for black and white children.
Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows.
These findings come from a report on the risks of bias in artificial intelligence tools published Wednesday by the non-profit Common Sense Media. Researchers specifically sought to evaluate the quality of AI teacher assistants — such as MagicSchool, Khanmingo, Curipod, and Google Gemini for Education — that are designed to support classroom planning, lesson differentiation, and administrative tasks.
These findings underscore the need to halt the rush to use AI bots to “assist” teachers, especially new teachers or poorly-prepared one who have never taken increasingly-rare courses that offer guidance in how to root out bias in the classroom. Special education students are particularly vulnerable to misuse of these bots.
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