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The impact of AI on privacy, data protection and ethics in education

Lawfulness, Fairness and Transparency Principle

For schools, this principle means:

That they must be clear, open and honest about how they are processing personal data (transparency);

That individuals will expect the school to be processing their personal data in the way they do, and that it will not lead to unjustified adverse effects (fairness); and

That the school has a reason (which is often prescribed in law) that allows them to process the personal data e.g. they have the individual’s consent (lawfulness)

Source: The impact of AI on privacy, data protection and ethics in education

Meredith Whittaker interview: What A.I. risks we should really be worried about.

So then what’s the next step? Shut it all down?

The next steps are, in my view, things like the Writer’s Guild of America winning, showing that we can put clear guardrails on the use of these systems, and those guardrails don’t have to come from entreating those who already have power. They can actually come from power building in workplaces and in communities. We also have some interesting proposals for more grounded regulation. I would look at Lina Khan’s New York Times op-ed recently that calls for structural separation of these companies. I would also look to the really grounded proposals that Amba Kak and Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute put out in their 2023 Landscape Report. Particularly, the proposal that looks at privacy legislation as something that could be beneficial in stopping some of the data-centric A.I. development. Because, of course, we have to get back to this core reality: A.I. is built on surveillance. It is a product of the surveillance business model.

Source: Meredith Whittaker interview: What A.I. risks we should really be worried about.