Google’s chief executive officer Sundar Pichai made the rather grandiose prediction earlier this year that the impact of artificial intelligence on humanity will be “more profound than fire or electricity.”
Whether AI really can be compared to Prometheus’ gift to humankind is up for debate, but it has certainly advanced some fields, including health care, and made data analytics more powerful.
But how true might Pichai’s prophecy be for the notoriously hard-to-reform education sector? And what about low-income learners living in remote areas with unreliable access to power, wifi, and the devices that are integral to using AI?