Whistleblower exposes security and privacy issues with school chatbot

In an interview conducted by the Los Angeles Unified School District’s investigative team, Chris Whiteley, the former senior director of software engineering at AllHere, explained his concerns with the security and privacy aspects of the design of “Ed”, an AI chatbot intended to assist students. Whiteley says the chatbot placed students’ personally identifiable information at risk by including it in all chatbot prompts, even when the data wasn’t relevant. District leaders need to conduct sufficient audits to understand how third-party companies use student information.
Link:L.A. Schools Probe Charges its Hyped, Now-Defunct AI Chatbot Misused Student Data
Publication: The 74
Writer: Mark Keierleber