CADE Team contribute to knowledge and development of AI
Date 16 October 2024
16.10.2024During 2024, the Centre for Active Digital Education (CADE) team at The University of Northampton have made several contributions to the literature around Artificial Intelligence. This shows a commitment to not only use the products which are released but to actively contribute to the knowledge on how they should be used within society.
Amongst the work that CADE has published already (more is in development) was a chapter on “The Inherent Uncertanities of AI-Text Dections and the Implications for Education Institutions” with Robin Crockett and Rob Howe. This chapter focused on the implications of the improving generative-AI ‘chatbot’ technologies and the inevitable unreliability of attendant AI-text detection technologies. It noted that the goal of generative-AI programmers is to design AIs which produce text indistinguishable from typical human-written text: an eventuality that will render AI-text detectors redundant.
Rob Howe, Simon Sneddon and Lee Machado have also written a chapter for Artificial Intelligence Applications in Higher Education – Theories, Ethics, and Case Studies for Universities on the ethical implications of gAI on students, academic staff and researchers in HE.
Kardi Somerfield also contributed to an E-Book on Digital Education published by the Digital Marketing Institute on creating job ready graduates. Kardi has been a keen advocate of developing an AI mindset in our students to better prepare them for future employability.
