Parents are losing trust in artificial intelligence (AI) in schools even as more districts look to adopt the technology.
A recent PDK poll found parents are not comfortable with AI software getting personal information about their children such as grades, and that Americans overall frown upon AI usage for creating lesson plans.
The distrust is a drop from previous years that schools will have to confront both as the Trump administration and the industry look to push AI in schools.
“I think that parents are in a lot of different places with understanding what AI is, how it’s impacting schools or not and how it’s starting to show up uniquely for their own children. And we’re in a really different place this fall than even last fall,” said Bree Dusseault, principal and managing director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
“I do think that this next school year is going to be a year of reckoning with AI,” Dusseault added.
