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More OpenAI Drama, AI Marilyn Gone Wrong & AI Educator Alex Kotran | Ep48

Mar 14, 2024
AI educator Alex Kotran discusses the challenges of AI integration in schools. The podcast also covers OpenAI drama, AI in State of the Union, resurrecting dead celebrities with AI, elder care AI dolls, and AI-generated sound effects. The hosts explore AI communication with animals, feuds in the AI industry, digital celebrity avatars, education integration, and the future of human-machine intelligence.
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ANECDOTE

Alex's Entry: Bostrom Inspired Shift

  • Alex Cotran began his AI journey after Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence talk in 2017.
  • That experience pushed Alex to focus AI EDU on practical education rather than existential risk obsession.
INSIGHT

AI Literacy Belongs Everywhere

  • AI literacy should be core, cross-curricular education, not a niche elective.
  • Students need AI skills integrated into history, science, humanities, and math to graduate prepared.
INSIGHT

Teachers Are Cautiously Split

  • Teachers are split: roughly half hopeful and half fearful about AI's classroom role.
  • Most are cautiously evaluating benefits and risks rather than taking extreme stances.
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