The EdTech Innovation Hub recently interviewed Edward M. Kennedy Institute CEO Adam Hinds to discuss the Institute’s new AI policy program. (RAISE worked with the Kennedy Institute to host the 2023 global Day of AI celebration.) In the interview, Hinds had some kind words for RAISE principal investigators when asked “If you could host a dinner party with five key figures in the edtech world, who would they be, and why would you choose them?” Two of them were RAISE PIs Hal Abelson and Cynthia Breazeal:
As a professor of computer science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it would be fascinating to speak with Dr. Abelson about the legislation itself being proposed in our government regarding technology and education, and our programs covering that very same legislation.
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Dr. Breazeal has done fascinating research into how we interact with machines and information, and has provided leadership in the equitable education of K-12 students about AI and responsible and responsive design practices.
