Little attention has been paid to the undesirable consequences of indiscriminate AI application, including automation-driven socio-economic inequality¶
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q2 i? Little attention is paid in the K-12 AI literacy literature to the undesirable consequences of an indiscriminate and insufficiently thought-out application of AI, such as increasing socio-economic inequality from employment automation. → Casal-Otero 2023
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Casal-Otero 2023¶
Casal-Otero, L., Catala, A., Fernández-Morante, C., Taboada, M., Cebreiro, B., & Barro, S. (2023). AI literacy in K-12: a systematic literature review. International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-023-00418-7
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The review's discussion of gaps in the 179 reviewed papers. It reports that automation-driven socio-economic inequality "is not usually a subject of interest in education". Qualitative judgment, no effect size.
"However, little attention is paid to the undesirable consequences of an indiscriminate and insufficiently thought-out application of AI, both in higher education and especially in K-12. For example, the increase in socio-economic inequality between countries and within countries, resulting from the increasing automation of employment, is of particular concern."
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k12-ai-literacy-neglects-undesirable-consequences |
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Little attention has been paid to the undesirable consequences of indiscriminate AI application, including automation-driven socio-economic inequality |
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Little attention has been paid to the undesirable consequences of indiscriminate AI application, including automation-driven socio-economic inequality |
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2023 |
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2028 |
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