By By Bellarmine Nneji
Abstract
Both artificial intelligence and digital education are the attractions of the millennium for not only the prepared and unprepared but also for the circumspect and laissez-faire. There are certain fundamental requirements that need to be put on ground before a society can think and implement policies related to technological advancements and innovations. There is a difference when a nation or society moves itself at its own pace than when it allows itself to be dragged into walking without learning how to crawl first. Technologies have their allures but we have to be circumspect. Technologies are not neutral. It is also a means of control. It is a challenge that AI is designed in a way that only the culture and interests of the designers are embedded in the systems. This makes it difficult for other cultures to have inputs of their values in education while adopting and using AI. This should be a cause for concern and challenge to philosophers of education. The critical and analytical methods were adopted in the work. This was to ensure adequate justifications of the positions in the paper. It is therefore submitted that technologies in education cannot dehumanize us, we are not ghosts in a machine. It is then suggested that we should not allow ourselves, the richness of human diversities and dynamics, to be put into precast moulds of AI and digitalization.
