To AI or Not to AI?

Exploring two contrasting perspectives on AI in education by Andreas Horn and Emily Bender, Mat and Phil reflect on AI’s promises and pitfalls, what artificial intelligence really means, and how language educators can respond thoughtfully to a technology that is already shaping education.

In this episode:

• Both texts are available at https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000395236 (page numbers below) The whole booklet is UNESCO (2025) AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions.
• Andreas Horn: Rethinking education in the age of Artificial Intelligence (page 38)
• Emily Bender: We do not have to Accept AI (much less GenAI) as inevitable in education (page 41)
• Emily M. Bender: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/
• Andreas Horn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreashorn1/