Spurious Sovereignty
For several years Helen Beetham has been developing an increasingly critical analysis of the development and social impact of Generative AI through her blog and newsletter, Imperfact Offerings. Her latest post, Marking the Government’s homework on public sector AI, includes an analysis and critique of the UK government’s plans for automated marking and autonomous missiles, and making public data ‘safe’ by selling it to private ‘security’ businesses, all in the name of ‘sovereignty’. It goes further with an in depth analysis of the data industry and the plans by the UK government for the development of large data centres, in […]
AI Pioneers at the EDEN 2025 Annual Conference in Bologna
With three active contributions, AI Pioneers was once again […]
AI Open Educational Resources
We need more of this. Blair Attard-Frost has shared […]
AI Pioneers interactive presentation of the Ethics Evaluation Schema now available in German
We are excited to announce that the interactive presentation […]
AI Pioneers Ethics Evaluation Schema now available
The project has developed a new evaluation schema that offers educators and organisations a critical compass for navigating AI in teaching and learning.
AI and Education: Agency, Motivation, Literacy and Democracy
Graham Attwell, George Bekiaridis and Angela Karadog have written a new paper, AI and Education: Agency, Motivation, Literacy and Democracy. The paper has been published as a preprint for download on the Research Gate web site. This is the abstract. This paper, developed as part of the research being undertaken by the EU Erasmus+ AI Pioneers project, examines the use of generative AI in educational contexts through the lens of Activity Theory. It analyses how the integration of large language models and other AI-powered tools impacts learner agency, motivation, and AI literacy. The authors conducted a multi-pronged research approach including […]
Ethics in using AI
Photo by Alek Kalinowski on Unsplash The European Digital Education […]
A machine-based system designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy
The European Union has taken a big step towards […]
Generative AI: three key ethical challenges
I have had a break from AI and education […]
