The recent critiques of AI in education resonate with Mike Ananny’s call to treat generative AI as a ‘public problem’:
“we need to see it as a fast-emerging language that people are using to learn, make sense of their worlds, and communicate with others. In other words, it needs to be seen as a public problem. … Public problems are collectively debated, accounted for, and managed; they are not the purview of private companies or self-identified caretakers who work on their own timelines with proprietary knowledge. Truly public problems are never outsourced to private interests or charismatic authorities”