Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it?

This discussion is about whether AI tools should be integrated into normal teaching and learning instead of being treated mainly as a cheating risk. Proponents argue that AI can personalize learning, support teachers, build students' digital literacy, and reflect the realities of the future workplace. Critics worry about plagiarism, loss of critical thinking, data privacy, inequality between students with different access, and increased dependence on commercial platforms. So the debate is really about what "good education" looks like in an AI-saturated world.

Here you can watch the whole argumentation in favor and against the discussed thesis

Yes (16 votes) No (1 votes)
Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it?

To vote

YES: Dariusz Jemielniak

Agree Position

NO: Maha Bali

Disagree Position

Dariusz Jemielniak

Vice President of Polish Academy of Sciences and Professor at Kozminski University. Harvard Berkman-Klein Center faculty associate and Wikimedia Foundation Trustee. Serial entrepreneur, co-founding innovative AI and education startups including RunPixie and InstaLing. Bridging academic leadership with technological innovation across multiple domains.

Maha Bali

Maha Bali is Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo, with a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield. She co-founded virtuallyconnecting.org and co-facilitates Equity Unbound, an open intercultural learning curriculum with multiple community initiatives.

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