AI Ethics: Measuring Real-World Impact in Education

Please join BU Wheelock and the Just Horizons Alliance for the launch of the AI Ethics Index for K-12 Education. This event is presented by BU's Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, as a part of #BostonTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.

-Azer Bestavros, Associate Provost, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

-Penny Bishop, Dean, BU Wheelock

-Janet Kang, Executive Director, Just Horizons

-Wesley Wildman, Founder, Just Horizons; Boston University Duan Family Faculty Fellow; and Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, and Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics

This session brings together leaders from academia, civil society, and industry. The event will feature a preview of the AI Ethics Index, a tool developed by Just Horizons Alliance, a non-profit applied research lab, founded by Wesley J. Wildman. The AI Ethics Index is designed to help educators, policymakers, and companies evaluate the ethical dimensions of AI systems, particularly large language models used in educational settings.

What makes this program distinctive is the partnership with BU Wheelock. Just Horizons will provide the integration of deep technical and ethical analysis with education expertise from BU Wheelock, ensuring that questions of learning outcomes, student development, equity, and classroom implementation are central, not secondary, to how AI systems are evaluated. The conversation will move beyond high-level principles to practical application, offering a framework for how AI can be assessed, adopted, and governed in real-world educational environments (and beyond).

This collaboration is an example of the type of convergent research at Boston University made possible by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences.

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