AI could be a threat to global education, tech mogul says
In the face of emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies worldwide, conversations have arisen about the possible impact of such developments on different areas of life.
Fears have been rife about the likelihood of a surge in cybercrime, and fake news among others, with the development of AI technologies and apps like Chat GPT, and Deepfake apps.
But Former Vice Minister of Digital Development in Mongolia, Bolor-Erdene Battsengel says the biggest of all these threats posed by AI technologies may be on education.
Battsengel who is also the founder of the Girls Code program in the Asian country says that many of these technologies are increasingly making students less academic and more dependent on generated information for their school projects and learning.
“The education factor could be one of the biggest threats, especially for young people. A lot of people use Google for their dissertations and things but they have to read but now using AI, they are actually writing the whole paper or science for them. It sounds really basic but we really need to start from the base and the biggest threat could be the educational factor of AI,” she told GSW’s Wonder Hagan.
She also touched on the growing threats of AI and other technologies as a result of the gaps in collaboration between giant tech companies and governments. According to her, there is a lack of collaboration between the global powers in tech and respective governments to ensure effective regulation systems online.
“There’s a huge lack of collaboration between tech companies, international organisations, and governments. I myself am a victim of cyberbullying for political reasons, fake news, and disinformation, and the problem is that now we have AI coming in really strong. Now you have Deepfake, all the technologies to spread the fake news even faster, even better, so now the challenge is how do we protect the younger generation from that. For that, I will say first regulation and second cooperation between the tech companies and governments. For social media regulation I would say the tech companies are doing a really poor job in terms of protecting, in terms of safety and now it’s time they really have to act on it,” she added.
