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Stephen Downes

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This paper has 47 authors, give or take, and is a bit of a round manifesto stuffed into the format of a square research paper, but despite that awkward fit it offers a fairly cogent summary of the potential benefits and risks of AI in education. Where it is substantially weaker, to my mind, is in the actual 'manifesto' part of the paper (titled "Conclusions and Implications: A Call to Action and Inquiry"). It contains the usual platitudes ("GenAI is not a silver bullet" and "GenAI reuses knowledge rather than creating new knowledge") and a restatement of some of the risks. It hints of "a shift not only in our attitude toward GenAI but also in the way we discuss it" but doesn't really get at what that shift should be.

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