AI expert to highlight risks of ChatGPT in global webinar
A leading Charles Darwin University (CDU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert will detail why the world must stop ignoring the dangers of ChatGPT to education and see how we can use it to our advantage in a webinar to be broadcast globally.
CDU AI expert Stefan Popenici will be speaking in the webinar Redesigning Assessment for an Ever-Changing World, hosted by United Kingdom-based PebblePad.
PebblePad is an online platform helping educators deliver student-centred learning.
In his presentation An Imaginative Approach to AI in Learning and Assessment Design, Dr Popenici will discuss ChatGPT, its impact in education and training, its hype, limits and weakness and how it can be used to society’s benefit.
Dr Popenici said the continuous hype of ChatGPT was distracting from the risks it poses to academic integrity and critical thinking. He said it could have irreversible effects on education.
“The capacity for this technology to change what we’re doing in every sector is immense. Nobody is safe and the next sector to be profoundly changed is education,” Dr Popenici said.
“I don’t see this being analysed with intellectual rigor. We are dealing with something potentially dangerous. It can be used to our advantage but I don’t see the concern or serious analysis.
“We can do a lot of damage and when we realise what we’ve done, it may be too late.”
Dr Popenici was thrilled for the opportunity to speak about AI in education and hoped viewers would take away how this technology could be used to society’s advantage in schooling and training.
“It’s important to have informed conversations and in-depth analysis,” he said.
“ChatGPT and AI were not developed for education.
“It is our duty to see how it is possible to use this technology to our advantage rather than be disrupted and confused by it.”
Dr Popenici has more than 30 years’ experience in higher education and in November 2022, published his book Artificial Intelligence and Learning Futures: Critical Narratives of Technology and Imagination in Higher Education.
Dr Popenici will speak alongside PebblePad’s Senior Consultant Lisa Gray and Customer Success Manager / Learning Design Consultant Pauline Porcaro.
PebblePad’s Redesigning Assessment for an Ever-Changing World will be broadcast from 6pm ACST/7.30pm AEDT on March 14, 2023.