Dinowitz expresses anxiety about AI pilot vetting and lack of rubric
Dinowitz shares parent and teacher anxiety about AI tools being described as 'vetted' without evidence of efficacy or safety, noting no rubric has been shared, modules haven't been seen, and teachers haven't received professional development on AI implementation.
I have to share with you the anxiety that so many teachers and parents feel.
Especially after hearing testimony and hearing the description, and I really want you to tell me where I'm wrong.
It would give me no greater joy than to hear where I am wrong.
In the testimony, it was testified that these AI tools
vetted and approved.
When I hear the word vetted, I think that it is vetted for the quality, for what it brings to my students, not just for IRMA, which you acknowledge needs to be updated, needs to include algorithmic bias.
So I hear vetted,
And then I hear that my child or parents'children are actually going to be the test subjects for something that isn't vetted for efficacy and safety.
I'm hearing you're going to look at things, but we have not seen a rubric for what is actually being looked at, what is actually being investigated.
We haven't seen what these modules, what the educational modules actually look like.
And the teachers have not received professional development on how to implement AI broadly or these particular tools.
So that's a lot of the questions and anxieties that parents are feeling.
And I just want you to tell me.
Which where I'm wrong.
I can go through it as questions.
No.
Does vetting...
You don't need to.
Okay, no, it's...
We...
You know, in our last testimony, we talked about the development of a tool selection rubric that is under design.
It's advancing.
We have in our procurement and contracting, we have a...
A way that we're working with our vendors to assess like levels of AI in their programs and making sure that they can be, you know, enter into our schools and stay within this policy.
We have very limited...
I'm sorry, not to interrupt, but I want to be like...
Right now, you're talking about the policies that are in place, the vendor process that I think, when it comes to a lot of these technologies, is lacking in many cases.
You're talking about the IRMA process, which we know has places lacking, and you're talking about...
15 to 45 minute time limits, but it doesn't really speak to what is on the screen.
It doesn't really speak to what data you're actually looking for and what it means for our children and our family.
And I just want to highlight that and then please continue.