Artificial Intelligence

In October 2023, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order to ensure America leads the way in seizing the promise and managing the risks of AI. In response to the Executive Order, the U.S. Department of Education committed to developing new resources, policies, and guidance focused on addressing safe, responsible, and accessible uses of AI in education. All of our work builds on the Department’s foundational report released in May 2023, AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning, which underscores the transformative potential of AI in enhancing teaching and learning, emphasizing the need for equitable and ethical implementation. It advocates for the development of AI technologies that support diverse learning environments and recommends establishing robust frameworks to manage AI’s impact on education. This involves fostering collaboration among educators, policymakers, and technologists to ensure AI’s benefits are accessible to all students while safeguarding their privacy and rights.

Designing for Education with Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Guide for Developers

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology’s new guide Designing for Education with Artificial Intelligence: An Essential Guide for Developers, seeks to inform product leads and their teams of innovators, designers, developers, customer-facing staff, and legal teams as they work toward safety, security, and trust while creating AI products and services for use in education. This landscape is broader than those building large language models (LLMs) or deploying chatbots; it includes all the ways existing and emerging AI capabilities can be used to further shared educational goals.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning

The U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology’s new policy report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge, engaging educators, and refining technology plans and policies for artificial intelligence (AI) use in education. The report describes AI as a rapidly-advancing set of technologies for recognizing patterns in data and automating actions, and guides educators in understanding what these emerging technologies can do to advance educational goals—while evaluating and limiting key risks. 

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Listening Sessions

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, with support from Digital Promise, held listening sessions about Artificial Intelligence (AI). We connected with all constituents involved in making decisions about technology in education, including but not limited to teachers, educational leaders, students, parents, technologists, researchers, and policy makers.

The goal of these listening sessions were to gather input, ideas, and engage in conversations that will help the Department shape a vision for AI policy that is inclusive of cutting-edge research and practices while also informed by the opportunities and risks.

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• For a print-out and summary of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative, please review our AI One-pager