Humans must be “above” Artificial Intelligence, that is, they must be in control of the processes carried out with AI support. This faculty of control must be made possible and explicit in educational techno-methodologies. The neologism Above AI indicates a cultural, methodological and User-Interface Design principle that places humans above Artificial Intelligences. The basic idea…
Above AI: the critical control of artificial intelligence
In the global Artificial Intelligence scenario, Europe has accrued a significant lag in the developments of basic technologies, which is also difficult to bridge due to the investment gap with the US and China. However, Europe’s role cannot be limited to the function of the regulatory arbiter between the two American and Asian competitors. The…
The premise of the Above AI principle is the availability of artificial intelligence as a commodity (replaceable commodity or good, regardless of its producer) or raw material, moldable to achieve more complex goals. Not only that: within an Above AI application, it is considered fair to be able to substitute one AI model over another…
In Above AI systems, an interface is developed that separates the user from the AI models employed, so that the individual operator does not have to surrender sensitive personal data because he or she is shielded from anonymized information flows, even with the mediation of access to APIs (Application Programming Interfaces, protocols that allow software…
The application of Artificial Intelligence in education is being experimented with. One of the main application strands is personalized teaching: the user is entrusted to a conversational system with which he or she interacts individually. The effectiveness of this approach is plausible in various forms of individual training, but it poses several problems in the…
The key words of the recent years of digital transition, the metaverse and Artificial Intelligence, are converging in the creation of a “Synthetic World” distinct from the real world. In addition to video game purposes, the synthetic world of reality and extended intelligence is developing relevant functions in education through educational simulations, in industrial digital…
The term Above AI takes its cue from the telecommunications industry, where the Over-The-Top (OTT acronym) are the operators that provide, through the Internet, rich media services, content and applications delivered above the network infrastructure. Similarly, Above Ai operates by assuming the existence of AI models and services. For example, the Vidactica application uses content…
A typical strategy of the Above AI approach is related to positioning: we should avoid being subjected to an oracular and monological AI (such as that of ChatGPT and generative conversational interfaces in general), but we should also be wary of being “flanked” by an AI model that acts as an equal assistant, sooner or…
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