Possible prospects and new challenges of using AI for educational purposes

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/2307-9770.2024.12.01.03

Paper Language: UKR

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Abstract

The article presents the results of research on the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into the educational system, pedagogical process and curricula. The emergence of AI and its rapid development has caused significant structural changes and deep transformations in many areas, including in people's daily activities, in recent years. The newly created technology also influenced the educational sector, revealing new ways to improve the pedagogical process and improve its constituent components. The integration of technologies developed on the basis of AI can optimize the management of the learning process, improve the quality of monitoring and evaluation of final results, and creates conditions for the practical implementation of innovative learning methods. However, this leads to the false impression that the use of AI technologies is the fastest and easiest way to solve any problem, not considering the fact that AI can lead to negative changes, and the solved problem will not improve the situation if the problem is systemic. At the same time, the ethical aspect of AI technologies gives rise to a number of questions that touch on the admissibility of the exploitation of such technologies, control measures of systems with AI components, the possible influence of ethical norms on the decision-making process of the program, the question of the legal personality of AI. Along with the inherent advantages and significant potential, there are also significant risks that, if used incorrectly, can lead to negative results and undesirable consequences, which in the long run can affect the entire educational industry. Accordingly, it is relevant to develop solutions aimed at the implementation of practices and measures regulating the behavior of the AI system, strategic planning of the implementation of programs and training methods with artificial intelligence to obtain specified results, ensuring the visibility of the decision-making process by AI systems. Based on the obtained results, the practical value and viability of operating intelligent systems and programs based on AI have been proven. Possible ethical conflicts and contradictions during the interaction of AI with objects and subjects of the pedagogical process are established and analyzed, options for preventing such disagreements and ways to eliminate undesirable consequences are proposed.

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teaching, intellectual system, justice, innovative methods

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