Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved since its inception at Dartmouth College in 1956. AI has transformed industries such as healthcare, transportation, and finance. Despite its widespread impact, education has yet to embrace AI’s full potential.
In our daily lives, AI powers autonomous vehicles, virtual assistants, and internet personalization. AI has driven groundbreaking innovation in robotics, renewable energy, and space exploration, inspiring more students to become interested in its potential.
Nations investing in this technology gain a competitive advantage, making it imperative for the U.S. education system to prepare students accordingly.
According to Insights by Stanford Business, renowned computer scientist Andrew Ng has compared AI’s potential to electricity stating that just as electricity transformed everything 100 years ago, today he has a hard time thinking of an industry that AI will transform in the next several years.
As AI becomes more prevalent in schools, worries remain about its unethical use on assignments. However, these concerns were also prevalent when calculators became widely used in education. Our civilization must continue to progress, or else we will not make the momentous discoveries we have been able to with other technological advancements.
According to Insights by Stanford Business, the use and introduction of AI in education can have outstanding impacts on classes every student takes. Below are some examples of incorporating AI into our current curriculum.
Students studying English can use AI models to assist them in creative writing by generating ideas, developing characters, or improving the consistency of the plot. It can also provide real-time feedback on sentence structure, grammar, and overall strength when writing.
AI technology could be beneficial for math as it could be incorporated into a statistics unit. Students could learn to predict trends such as housing prices that are based on multiple variables such as location and historical data.
According to Insights by Stanford Business, sciences would also benefit as students will often perform a lab with a few variables and conditions offered. However, with the integration of AI, students could be allowed to simulate experiments across diverse environments, variables, and conditions outside of the classroom.
In history, AI could be used to analyze artifacts from the past and uncover trends and patterns that would traditionally take considerable amounts of time. For example, students could study the changes in presidential speeches over time.
Ultimately, incorporating artificial intelligence into schools is not just about improving education, but giving students a head start at what they will most definitely be using in higher education and the workforce after high school. By learning how to build and use AI algorithms early on, students gain a significant head start in developing skills to build and reshape our future on Earth.
