An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education
10 months ago
- #AI Ethics
- #Education
- #Student Wellbeing
- Global community of education professionals opposes GenAI adoption in schools and colleges.
- Education aims to empower learners' agency, but GenAI undermines students, educators, and professionals.
- GenAI poses legal, ethical, and environmental harms, including exploitative labor, piracy, biases, and misinformation.
- GenAI threatens student learning and wellbeing, with risks of addiction and mental health crises.
- Industry adoption of GenAI focuses on replacing human effort, promoting a harmful narrative of obsolescence.
- Eight commitments include rejecting GenAI in marking, feedback, curriculum changes, and unethical partnerships.
- Educators pledge not to train students to replace intellectual effort with GenAI.
- Students' rights to resist and refuse GenAI are upheld.