Concerns raised over teachers' use of commercial AI

Chelsea Channing

By Chelsea Channing
Published August 21, 2020

As technology gets smarter, we have come to trust it with a lot of our daily decisions – which route will get us to work faster, which new music we should try, and in new cars, we even let it take the wheel now and then.

UNSW student Kevin Witzenberger is concerned about the level to which corporations dominate the development of AI.

But how far does the trust go?

Would you take advice from a machine which tells you a particular student ...

This story appeared in the August 2020 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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