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Find your Next Career Opp, PCDN AI for Impact Newsletter, Jan. 20, 2025

January 20, 2025

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🌍 AI and Education: Transforming Learning Experiences Globally

AI is revolutionizing education by creating more accessible, personalized, and effective learning experiences. From adaptive tutoring to AI-powered content translation, these technologies address learning gaps and bring opportunities to underserved communities. By integrating AI, educators can provide tailored instruction, improve classroom efficiency, and make learning more inclusive for diverse learners.

However, the adoption of AI in education raises challenges, such as data privacy, potential biases, and unequal access to necessary infrastructure as well as what does it mean for the future of human centered education.

Four Key Opportunities of Using AI in Education:

  1. Personalized Learning: AI tools like Khanmigo provide tailored lesson plans, adapting to each student’s pace and style.

  2. Global Access: AI-powered platforms translate content into multiple languages, expanding educational resources to non-native speakers.

  3. Efficiency for Educators: Automation of administrative tasks, like grading, allows teachers to focus more on student engagement.

  4. Accessibility for Special Needs: AI supports students with disabilities through features like voice-to-text, speech recognition, and sensory aids.

Four Key Cons of AI in Education:

  1. Data Privacy Risks: AI relies on vast amounts of personal data, raising concerns about its storage and misuse.

  2. Bias in Algorithms: Datasets used to train AI can reinforce existing biases, affecting the fairness of tools.

  3. Digital Divide: Lack of infrastructure and internet connectivity limits access to AI-powered education in low-income regions.

  4. Dependence on Technology: Over-reliance on AI may hinder the development of critical thinking and social skills.

    • One more if for profit companies are largely behind building for profit AI applications in education, this may mean a misalignment of incentives where profit becomes more important than ethics, privacy or the best interest of learners or teachers.

📖 Four Key Organizations Leading AI in Education:

  1. Khan Academy (Khanmigo)
    A pioneer in free online education, Khan Academy uses its AI tutor, Khanmigo, to personalize learning and support students globally.
    📖 Learn more

  2. AI for Education
    We empower educators and academic institutions through responsible AI adoption and training. They are also starting to offer some certificate programs.
    📖 Explore here

  3. Curipod
    Lessons and Activities Powered by AI Feedback
    📖 Read more

  4. UNESCO
    Has lots of great research and recommendations on the use of AI in education.
    📖 Check it out

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News & Resources

Joke of the Day

Why did the AI go broke?
It spent all its resources in the cloud!

🌍 News Highlights

  • AI and Government Waste: A new critique argues that AI tools may not only fail to solve inefficiencies in government operations but could also harm vulnerable populations by reinforcing existing biases. Read more

  • AI in Schools: As ChatGPT and other AI tools become more integrated into classrooms, educators are debating how to navigate their impact on homework, learning, and academic integrity. Learn more

  • Testing AI for Sentience: A controversial idea suggests using the experience of "pain" to assess AI sentience—a topic raising profound ethical and scientific questions. Explore the debate

  • AI Allegations in Academia: A PhD student claims he was expelled from the University of Minnesota due to AI-related accusations, sparking debates on academic policy and fairness. Read the story

  • E-Carceration and AI Surveillance: As e-carceration technologies expand globally, critics warn about the ethical implications of AI-driven surveillance systems in the criminal justice system. Learn more

💼 Organization to Watch
Impact Source
A job board dedicated to connecting professionals with impactful careers in AI and social good. Explore roles where your AI expertise can drive meaningful change. Browse jobs here

🔗 LinkedIn Connection
Sam Gregory
A leading human rights technologist and Executive Director of WITNESS, Sam Gregory is an expert in generative AI, deepfakes, and combating misinformation. His work emphasizes ethical tech use for global impact. Connect with Sam

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AI for Impact Opportunities

Assistant Editor, Creator Spotlight, Beehiiv (Remote)

The Assistant Editor will work closely with the Lead Editor of Creator Spotlight, beehiiv’s owned media property. For the past year, Creator Spotlight has been a weekly podcast and newsletter series; you will play a defining role in increasing the quality and depth of our content, including by contributing research and original writing, while we expand the footprint.

Programme Specialist (Social and Human Sciences), UNESCO, Bejing

SHS also focuses on fostering inclusive societies and ensuring the ethical development of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), in line with UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI. This global standard aims to harness the benefits of AI while mitigating its inherent risks.

Call for Applications: UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship → UNIDIR

To redress gender inequalities and promote inclusive and effective policymaking, UNIDIR is convening the 2025 edition of the Women in AI Fellowship. This is designed as a capacity-building intervention that endows women diplomats with up-to-the-minute knowledge of the policy, legal and technical aspects of AI, including its gendered implications. 

Digital Transformation Analyst - Multiple Positions (Home Based)

UNDP is looking for a Digital Transformation Analyst to provide programme/initiative coordination, research, and events/engagement support to Team leads of the management team of Digital Transformation on key areas of Digital Transformation.

Applied Researcher - Global Catastrophic Risks, Founders Pledge

We’re looking for an Applied Researcher with a focus on global catastrophic risks to work on our Research team, which identifies and evaluates high-impact funding opportunities (HIFOs) to enable our broader member-base to give as effectively as possible. Our member base consists of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) who use our HIFO recommendations to guide their giving. Our aim is to provide the highest-impact funding opportunities across these areas.
Location: UK, USA (ideally East Coast), or Europe (flexible remote)

Operations Manager

Join the Team Introduction The ERA Fellowship is a talent programme based in Cambridge, UK which trains AI safety researchers & entrepreneurs. We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of technical and governance AI safety research.

UITP - MOBILITY DATA EXPERT & PROJECT MANAGER, Brussels

UITP (International Association of Public Transport) is a passionate champion of sustainable urban mobility and is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders.

Operations Training Director, Crisis Text Line

We are looking for a Director of Education to provide effective training and ongoing coaching to a volunteer community with 15,000 annual members. Our training programs prepare everyday people to provide empathetic support, assess for immediate needs, and plan for safety with anyone who reaches out for support.

Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI open call

Google.org is launching a global $30M open call for funding and acceptance into the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI to help organizations use gen AI to accelerate their social impact.

Project Manager, Energy Security and Technology - Washington, DC

Project Manager, Energy Security and Technology The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is seeking a Project Manager, Energy Security and Technology for the Technology and Geoeconomic Affairs (TGA) team to provide project management and development support for a portfolio of research projects focusing on energy security and technology issues across the Indo-Pacific region.

The/Nudge - Pragati: AI for Impact, India

The/Nudge Pragati: AI for Impact empowers nonprofits to integrate AI into their solutions, accelerating progress in tackling challenges across agriculture, healthcare, and skilling.

2025 PhD Residency - Bellwether

This project aims to push the limits of science and modeling as we know them and to prove how ML can radically accelerate our understanding of the world.

Location: X's headquarters in Mountain View, CA
Duration: a flexible 4 mo. to 1 year program based on project team needs and your availability

Learning Manager (Multiligual), African Leadership University, Rwanda

The Learning Manager will lead the strategic design, development, and delivery of learning programs targeting public sector officials. This role requires expertise in program and curriculum design, faculty management, and learner experience leadership to ensure impactful learning outcomes.

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