Will Schools Try to Ban Our AI friends?
What will happen when a student harms himself or herself because their AI Pin friend is taken away by the assistant principal?
—- The Verge
In September of 2023, I wrote about how we soon have “cyborg” students entering our classrooms. My focus was on how they would use AI to boost their own intelligence and academic performance. They have.
Despite the best efforts of TurnItIn, they did this through 2023-4. As we enter the next academic year, our students are now just smarter cyborgs bringing “smarter” intelligence that can easily outfox the TurnItIn nonsense.
We now wonder, is TurnItin -
A knight wielding a rubber sword?
A tank made of cardboard and held together with duct tape?
A sentry armed with a feather duster?
Many schools put in herculean efforts to keep the AI off of school-issued devices, and now many are starting to strip students of cell phone use during the day.
But as I noted this spring, what about wearables? Will schools restrict wearables like prescription glasses that have embedded AI models (I highlighted this again in my last post)?
On Tuesday, the "friend” pin hit the market for pre-orders. It’s an AI you can wear anywhere, even on a necklace. The pin will be your friend (and I assume it can also help you with your schoolwork).
Will schools ban these pins?