Donggil Song.
I had the honor of giving an invited lecture at Indiana University (virtually)!
It’s always fun to hang out with Dr. Curtis Bonk at IU. I shared my current projects, and the grad students asked such insightful and thought-provoking questions that really made me reflect on my future AI engineering work for human learning. This was for the course Emerging Learning Technologies, taught by the renowned and amazing Curtis Bonk.
Some students had pretty strong opinions about using AI in education and honestly, I get it, totally. Ethics is no joke, and the criticism can be intense, rightfully so. When people ask me about ethics in AI, I always say: look, I’m just an engineering researcher, not an ethicist nor ethics expert. I follow the rules for sure such as IRB approval, ethical guidelines, all the good stuff. But predicting future ethical dilemmas? That’s like asking your GPS to warn you about potholes that don’t exist yet. So my philosophy is: I’ll hit the gas and build the tech, and I trust our brilliant ethics experts to hit the brakes when needed. Teamwork makes the AI work.
