Banning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education risks shutting down conversations about how to innovate in pedagogy, according to a learning expert at Google Deepmind.

Miriam Schneider, director of learning initiatives in the technology firm’s main AI research division, said that AI does not have to “change pedagogy” but instead can “reinforce it.”

As many universities grapple with how best to approach the use of AI in assessments and learning, the “confrontation” between “what should remain uniquely human” and what can be done by AI “can have a meaningful role to play,” she told Times Higher Education.

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