A Framework for Teacher-AI complementarity – Professor Mutlu Cukurova

Now that AI demonstrably outperforms humans in many tasks across a widening set of benchmarks, we face some fundamental questions: What do we risk losing if we offload tasks to AI? What is acceptable? Teachers are using AI to save time on tasks, but do we risk ‘cognitive atrophy’ the more we do this? Prof Cukurova explores models of human-AI teaming which could provide a future roadmap, while considering the difficulty of achieving genuine human-AI synergy, and what this means for researchers and practitioners as AI is increasingly integrated into languages education. 

Key words: Teacher-AI complementarity; Cognitive atrophy; Replacement paradigm; Synergistic teaming; Teacher agency 

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