Testing the Bot: Building Ethical & Effective AI Agents for Learning

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Authors: Megan Humburg & Joshua Danish Key Ideas Our team has been developing AI-supported conversational agents that help students learn to write persuasive arguments in science, drawing on observations and evidence that they learn in our game-based environments. These agents need to assess students’ writing, evaluate how convincing and detailed the argument is, and offer … Read more

Redesigning an AI Bill of Rights For & With Young People

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By Sarah K. Burriss and EngageAI Staff Key Ideas In late 2022, the White House released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. This document is an important first step in responding to the increasing presence and impact of AI systems in our daily lives, and we wanted to share and discuss it with … Read more

Want to design better AI tools for education? Listen to the students!

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By Megan Humburg1, Ph.D., and Dalila Dragnić-Cindrić2, Ph.D. 1Indiana University; 2 Digital Promise Key ideas: Our teams at the EngageAI Institute are working to build a narrative-centered, AI-driven educational game where students can investigate scientific problems by exploring a game world, chatting with different characters, and gathering evidence to solve a mysterious illness outbreak.  As … Read more