AI Mockups and the Face of Reality
December 01, 2024
Appears in December 2024: School Administrator.
Ethical Educator
Scenario: With a proliferation of tools that use artificial intelligence to generate pictures of human characters for use in posters and other promotional materials, the public relations director of a school district tries to ensure racial diversity in the people represented. On one project, the superintendent tells her to bring back a new mockup with an AI model with a darker skin tone. How should the communications director respond? Is the superintendent’s remark indicative of unconscious bias or overt racism or neither?
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The Ethical Educator panel consists of
- Sheldon H. Berman, author of Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from School Districts’ Successes and Setbacks.
- Susan Enfield, superintendent-in-residence, ILO Group, Normandy Park, Wash.
- Baron Davis, CEO and founder, The Neogenesis Group, Columbia, S.C.; and
- Maria G. Ott, Irving R. and Virginia A. Melbo chair in education administration, University of Southern California.
Each month, School Administrator draws on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma.
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