A New Era of Special Education Begins with Inclusive AI
Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at risk of being left behind while AI advances, according to a study from the Special Olympics Global Center for Inclusion in Education.
New tools could be used to simplify education, making learning more inclusive to those with disabilities as well as tailoring lessons to pupils' personalised needs.
However, parents and teachers are concerned that AI models have not been trained on data from people with IDD, and there will therefore be a gap between what is promised by the technology and what it can actually do.
The majority of teachers, 78% of the 200 teachers surveyed, were concerned that AI in schools would result in a decrease of human interaction, while 65% thought that it could potentially hamper a student's ability to practice empathy.
Publication: Time
Writer: Tim Shriver