Prospects of AI in education
Join this event to hear Paul Standish explore the prospects and problems of AI in education.

To register for this webinar, please email Yuxin Su before the event to receive joining instructions.
Bold, sometimes extravagant claims are made about the ways that AI will come to change education, and these can cause heady excitement in some and grave apprehension in others.
A more realistic sense of the prospects and problems requires some consideration of the historical background, the contemporary policy context, and the ways of thinking that currently prevail.
Against this background, Paul will consider three Wittgensteinian lines of critique:
- The reduction of knowledge content and the displacement of judgement
- The dominance of algorithmic reasoning
- The imagined advent of the robot teacher
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in philosophers of education, classroom practitioners, and those who are interested in AI technology.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
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Paul is also President of the PESGB. His broadly phenomenological approach to education, with its particular attention to language, draws on extensive experience teaching in schools and colleges, prior to his university career.
He is the author or editor of some twenty books, including 'Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation' (2017, Rowman & Littlefield), co-edited with Naoko Saito, and 'Wittgenstein and Education: On Not Sparing Others the Trouble of Thinking' (2022, Wiley), co-edited with Adrian Skilbeck.
He is Co-Editor and was Editor (2001-2011) of the Journal of Philosophy of Education.