The implications for learning in an age of pervasive use of GenAI are significant. Responsible AI requires meaningful engagement with stakeholders, including young people, who have the right to be consulted about the systems which affect their lives. This project will bridge the divide between principles of explainability, fairness and privacy as they apply to educational AI, and the values, hopes and concerns of young people when faced with emerging technologies whose implications are not yet fully understood.
It will produce recommendations for educational policy and visions for educational practice that are grounded in lively, specific and meaningful engagements with young people as key stakeholders in education. The three aims of this project are to:
1. Develop a picture of what responsible GenAI could look like within secondary school education.
2. Create educational materials and pilot an interactive show that explores responsible AI and can foster GenAI literacy for school audiences. Developed and piloted in partnership with Dynamic Earth.
3. Develop and test imaginative, speculative and participatory methods for generating meaningful insights into young people’s perspectives on emerging AI technologies, testing these methods in two distinct educational contexts and providing a strong methodological foundation for a BRAID demonstrator project focusing on young people and education.
4. Produce recommendations for policymakers, educators and technology developers about what young people consider to be important considerations for including GenAI in school learning and assessment, and how GenAI literacy should be fostered.
Read the project's blog: Young People and AI – This is the blog for the BRAID-funded project 'Towards Embedding Responsible AI in the School System'.
Find out more about BRAID UK: Braid UK - BRAID UK.
