Public debate continues to rage over AI policy - the economic, technical, and legal regulation of AI tool creation and use. These debates, however, reduce the interests down to a balancing of the interest and demands of the content industry with the interests and demands of the technology industry. Neither of those interests align particularly closely with the interests of users, and of public interest institutions including libraries, educational institutions, and the populations they serve.
The members of the panel will discuss what issues define the public interest as distinct from both of these corporate interests - working from the experience of the open education community as both committed to the public interest and engaged with new technologies. We will cover interests including accessibility, transparency, due process, interoperability, and surveillance - focusing on implementation choices made by institutions and educators with an open pedagogy framework.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Better understand the way specific choices in AI implementation will affect open pedagogy goals, including student centeredness and student agency.
- Advocate for the interests of public institutions in the AI policy debate.
- Contribute to the exploration of emerging interests as AI policy is made at institutional and legal levels.
