Something to think about.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4573316

The Myth of Children’s Online Privacy Protection

Digital technology has changed the landscape young people face as they come of age. It has changed how children interact with their parents, schools, community organizations, and the state. Despite many benefits, digital technologies that employ data collection, algorithms, and artificial intelligence pose significant risks for the next generation. Private businesses can collect, use, and sell a child’s data in ways never imagined by their families. Information collected by third parties with good intentions can be stolen through data breaches. Through faulty algorithms, websites can make inaccurate assumptions about young people’s interests, teachers can make inaccurate assumptions about a student’s potential achievement, and the state can make inaccurate assumptions about a child’s risk to engage in criminal activity. It can also feed young people information that is harmful to their physical or psychological well-being. Meanwhile, current efforts in the United States that promise to protect children online threaten to undermine their right to privacy.

United States federal and state laws are ill-equipped to truly offer children online privacy protections. There are few legal remedies available to young people whose data is used in malicious ways. The remedies that do exist are insufficient to simultaneously safeguard children while respecting privacy as young people mature. To that end, this Article seeks to explore how current laws centered on children’s online protection are inadequate, and why the U.S.’s obsession with keeping young people safe online often curtails their need for agency and autonomy. It offers a cogent path forward to guide federal and state policymakers as they update children’s online privacy protection law.

Yeah, AI is coming. Deal with it.

https://www.londonic.uk/js/index.php/ljbeh/article/view/103

Empowering education with AI: Addressing ethical concerns

There has been a rapid advancement of technology in the realm of education, and artificial intelligence (AI) has become just one of the many tools utilized by members of educational institutions. However, with the swift integration of AI into the education system, many ethical challenges and dilemmas have surfaced; primarily driven by students’ misuse of the transformative technology. The potential impact on students' critical thinking skills, autonomy, and ethical decision-making further highlights the urgency to address these issues. This article explores the detrimental effects resulting from the unethical use of AI, along with proposing significant policies and guidelines in order to maximize the beneficial utilization of AI within educational institutions. Additionally, a comprehensive analysis of relevant studies will be presented to sustain the argument stated and contribute to the development of an AI learning environment that enables the prospering of both students and faculty.