Expert Profile

Sidney Dobrin

Professor

LS-ENGLISH | COLLEGE-LIBERAL ARTS SCIENCES

Research Terms & Keywords

Research Terms

Fisheries Writing Skills Artificial Intelligence Ecology Writing

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence Blue Humanities Ecocriticism Environmental Humanities Generative Artificial Intelligence Ocean Conservation Recreational Sportfishing

Research Projects

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04-2016

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Biography

Sid Dobrin, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida, has become one of the world’s most sought-after academic experts on Generative AI. He is the Founding Director of the Trace Innovation Initiative at UF and has been named a Digital Thought Leader by Adobe. He serves as a member of the Florida Institute for National Security, part of the University of Florida’s AI Initiative, and he served on the University of Florida’s AI Blue Sky Task Force. He has also served as a member of the Florida AI Learning Consortium (FALCON) Steering Committee. Dobrin is an MIT-certified AI strategist. He is the author and editor of more than 30 books and numerous articles, including Talking about Generative AI: A Guide for Educators 2.0 and AI and Writing, 2e. In April 2025, he testified before the US House Committee on Education and Workforce Development, and in December, 2025, he spoke before the Mississippi State Legislature’s AI Task Force. His newest book The Not So Perfect Machine: What Every Consumer Needs to Know about AI is scheduled to be published soon. His current research project examines enduring questions motivated by AI. In addition to his work in Digital Humanities, he is prolific in writing on Environmental Humanities, with a focus on Blue Ecocriticism and Blue Humanities, and he is currently editing The Routledge Blue Humanities Handbook. He also serves as faculty for the University of Florida's Florida Institute for National Security (FINS) and is currently conducting research about global protein security and ocean harvest. Dobrin is also CEO and Principal for FlyingFish-AI, an AI strategy consultancy.

Publications

Academic Resource

How to Talk about Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Higher Education. Second edition. (April, 2025) Broadview Press.

OpEds

“Is This Our ‘Sputnik’ Moment for AI in K-12?” Government Technology. (May 06, 2025).
“Is student use of generative AI cheating? The answer is complicated.” (Co-authored with Bruce Fraser). Tampa Bay Times. February 7, 2025.
“GenAI is Transforming Higher Education, and Florida is Leading the Way.” (Co-Authored with Bruce Fraser). Tampa Times. July 4, 2024.
“Generative AI bots will change how we write forever—and that’s a good thing.” The Hill. (July 22, 2023).

Scholarly Monographs

Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative. Routledge. March 2021.
Fishing Gone? Saving the Ocean through Sportfishing. Texas A & M University Press. 2019.
Postcomposition. Southern Illinois University Press. 2011. *Winner 2011 W. Ross Winterowd Award for best book published in composition theory.
Natural Discourse:Toward Ecocomposition. (Co-authored with Christian Weisser). State University of New York Press. 2002.
Constructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory-Building and Pedagogy in Composition. State University of New York Press. 1997.

Edited Collections

The Routledge Blue Humanities Handbook. Routledge. (Under Contract).
Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities. Parlor Press. (Under Contract).
The Humanities Division. (Co-edited with Jason Crider). Parlor Press. (Under Contract).
Rhetorical Ecologies. (Co-edited with Madison Jones). National Council of Teachers of English. (2024).
EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels. Mcfarland. 2020.
Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy. (Co-edited with Sean Morey). Routledge. 2020.

Textbooks

Artificial Intelligence and Writing 2.0. Broadview Press. (Forthcoming).
Artificial Intelligence and Writing. Broadview Press. 2023.
Situations of Writing. Pearson. 2014.

Articles and Reviews

“Reimagining the University: A Blue-Sky Visioning Framework for Artificial Intelligence Campus-Wide Integration.” Jane Southworth; Kati W. Migliaccio; Sarah VanSchoick; Joseph Glover; Elias G. Eldayrie; Jacob H. Albert; Azra Bihorac; Alexandra Bitton-Bailey; Ziynet Boz; Sid Dobrin; Ja’Net Glover; Jenna Gonzalez; Joel Harley; Amber Hatch; Patricia Kio; Christopher McCarty; Jasmine McNealy; David L. Reed; Aniruth Venkedesh; Amelia Winger-Bearskin; Alina Zare. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. (Under Review).

“Animal Extraction: Blue Humanities and Animal Studies.” Recent Environmental Approaches towards More-than-Human Humanities. Eds. Nikoleta Zampaki and Peggy Karpouzou. Routledge. (Under contract).

“When Worlds Collide: Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfuturist Western Water Critique.” PMLA: Journal of the Modern Language Association of America. (Accepted).

“Empirical Possibilities.” Data-Driven Approaches to Generative AI and Writing Research. EDS. Matthew Vetter, Brent Lucia, and Jiang Jialei. WAC Clearinghouse. (Accepted).

“Blue Humanities.” Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: Pluriversal Perspectives. Eds. Christoph Wulf and Nathanaël Wallenhorst. Springer (Forthcoming).

“Posthuman/s/ism/s” Çokludisiplinlerde Posthümanizm (Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies). Eds. Sümeyra Brauun and Pelin Kumbit. London, UK: Transnational Press. 2023.

“Rhetoric 2050: In Honor of Richard M. Coe’s ‘Rhetoric 2001.’” Composition Studies. 50.1 (2022): 62-66.

“Where is the Ocean?” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. April, 2021. https://www.asle.org/features/where-is-the-ocean/

“After the End.” Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Danielle

“Unforeseen and Unimaginable.” Rhetorical Speculations: Emerging Technologies and the Future and Potential of Rhetoric. ED. Scott Sundvall. Southern Illinois University Press. 2019. 298-303.

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Speaking Details

Speaker Topics

Artifical Intelligence And Higher Education Artificial Intelligence Blue Humanities Ecocriticism Environmental Humanities Generative Artificial Intelligence Ocean Conservation Protien Security Recreational Fishing Industry

Target Audiences

Adults

Fee Range

Greater than $500

Videos

Duration: 0:45:40

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Your Fishing Business - Presented by Sid Dobrin

In the presentation video How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Your Fishing Business, Dr. Sid Dobrin—known across the sportfishing community as "The Fishing Professor"—shares actionable insights on how businesses in the recreational fishing market can leverage artificial intelligence to optimize their daily operations. Drawing on his dual background as an elite tech strategist and a lifelong angler, Dobrin bridges the gap between complex digital analytics and hands-on business realities for tackle manufacturers, retailers, and charter captains. He introduces practical applications for automated scheduling, digital booking systems, and localized social media marketing, demonstrating how data tracking can reveal exactly where target audiences live and what content resonates with them. Rather than pushing expensive, off-the-shelf software, Dobrin emphasizes a foundation of data liquidity—showing business owners how to un-silo their historical records, customer logs, and inventory data to build personalized, highly efficient marketing pipelines that secure their competitive edge.

Year:

2024

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCxzHahK8QY&t=4s

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Keywords:

Here are 5 high-impact key terms to use as tags for this business-focused presentation highlighting the intersection of sport fishing management and practical data strategy: #FishingBusinessAI #DataLiquidity #RecreationalFishingIndustry #OutdoorBrandStrategy #SidDobrin

Duration: 0:08:21

How can AI help revolutionize the Humanities?

In discussions concerning how artificial intelligence is changing the academic landscape, the intersection of AI and the humanities highlights a profound shift in how we handle language, critical inquiry, and cultural archive research. Rather than acting as a tool that replaces humanistic thought, natural language processing and generative models offer a massive playground for analyzing dense texts, tracking rhetorical patterns across centuries of literature, and mapping out complex cultural histories. It forces scholars to look beyond traditional terrestrial, linear ways of reading to see how synthetic media and algorithmic structures shape our collective consensus reality. Ultimately, this technological evolution does not signal the end of the liberal arts; instead, it underscores that the creative, interpretive, and deeply humanistic skills found in philosophy, literature, and ethics are more critical than ever to ensure we maintain control over our digital infrastructure and establish true, reflective literacy.

Year:

2025

Link:

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Based on the themes discussed in that context here are 5 high-impact keywords to use as tags: #HumanitiesComeback #AILiteracy #HumanOriginality #FutureOfWork #CognitiveAugmentation

Duration: 0:51:23

Transforming Assessments and Teaching in the Age of AI and ChatGPT

In this panel discussion titled Transforming Assessments and Teaching in the Age of AI and ChatGPT, hosted by the University of Florida’s AI² Center, Dr. Sid Dobrin serves as a primary academic and theoretical strategist. Positioned alongside experts from ufit and the Center for Teaching Excellence, Dobrin plays a critical role in reframing the campus conversation away from a defensive, policing-oriented "academic integrity" mindset and toward a holistic re-examination of educational epistemologies. He emphasizes that approaching AI tools simply to catch cheating diminishes the true purpose of education, advocating instead for an integrated perspective that blends academic, professional, personal, and civic integrity. Throughout the session, Dobrin expounds on the concept of human-machine collaboration, arguing that AI should be viewed as an augmentative partner rather than a mechanical replacement for human interaction. He highlights the severe socioeconomic equity and broadband access divides that arise when students are limited to free software while others utilize premium proprietary tools. Proactively championing a "learning to learn" framework, Dobrin outlines how instructors can shift assignments away from baseline summaries (A to B performance) to target higher-order critical thinking and metacognition (C to D mastery), ultimately preparing students to adapt as flexible, lifelong learners in a shifting technological landscape.

Year:

2024

Link:

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Keywords:

#NextGenAssessment #HumanMachineCollaboration #EducationalEpistemologies #CyborgStudent #SidDobrin

Duration: 0:58:17

Generative AI: Constucting Realities

In the video Generative AI: Constructing Realities, Dr. Sid Dobrin serves as the foundational voice examining how automated platforms shape cultural memory and redefine our understanding of authenticity. Drawing heavily on his background in critical theory and digital media, Dobrin steers the discussion away from standard technical hype to look at the rhetorical velocity at which synthetic content is generated and circulated. He acts as a critical provocateur, detailing how no-code generative tools manipulate symbols to build simulated environments that lack a physical real-world counterpart but heavily influence collective consensus reality. By framing AI not as a passive tool for corporate efficiency but as an active agent in reshaping human subjectivity, Dobrin challenges viewers to look beyond the immediate visual surface and develop the rigorous digital literacy required to cross-examine simulated information in a world where the boundary between the authentic and the synthetic is endlessly shifting.

Year:

2024

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVRdMsgZ-RE

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#ConstructingRealities #SyntheticMedia #CulturalMemory #DigitalLiteracies #SidDobrin

Duration: 1:00:46

Is It The End of the English Major? Learning How to Use AI as a Writer & Educator w/ Dr. Sid Dobrin

In this thought-provoking episode of the Ivory Tower Boiler Room podcast, host Dr. Andrew Ry interviews Dr. Sid Dobrin to confront a pressing cultural and academic debate: "Is it the end of the English major?" Drawing on his deep background in rhetoric and digital media, Dobrin rejects apocalyptic hyperbole and industrial panic, emphasizing that English departments fundamentally study how and what people read and write—processes that are constantly evolving alongside human innovation. He masterfully places the modern anxiety surrounding generative tools within a broader historical context, drawing witty comparisons to past "moral crises" triggered by the advent of ballpoint pens, the printing press, and Wikipedia, reminding listeners that even Socrates once feared that writing itself would permanently erase human memory. Throughout the hour-long interview, Dobrin shares practical pedagogical perspectives from his book AI and Writing, guiding educators and creative professionals to transition away from retrofitting AI to fit obsolete workflows and instead explore how niche, academic-focused platforms can enhance student revision, archival research, and collaborative peer review. He touches on complex macroeconomic issues, such as data privacy protocols, the corporate warfare over data scraping blocks, and how emerging industry benchmarks are demanding proactive AI literacy and data security from college graduates. Ultimately, Dobrin frames the modern technological renaissance as an incredible structural opportunity rather than a death knell for the humanities, urging educators to cast aside nostalgia, embrace critical inquiry, and critically interrogate long-held, romanticized ideals of individual agency and subjectivity in an increasingly networked world.

Year:

2024

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBQnu8VCZs0

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Keywords:

#EnglishMajorAI #AILiteracy #AcademicIntegrity #DigitalLiteracies #SidDobrin

TOPkit Workshop 2024 - Day 3: Keynote Speaker Sid Dobrin, Generative AI in the Classroom

In this keynote address delivered at the Day 3 opening of the TOPkit Workshop, Dr. Sid Dobrin tackles the rapidly evolving dynamics of integrating artificial intelligence into the modern higher education classroom. Combining his structural knowledge as Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida with a warm, peer-to-peer delivery style, Dobrin addresses the unique anxieties and pedagogical friction faculty experience as they navigate these shifts. He sets a provocative tone by showing a brief, symbolic 17-second clip of a tic-tac-toe game where the machine systematically ignores the traditional boundaries of the grid to draw its own winning parameters—a metaphor he applies directly to how AI is upending established educational conventions. Throughout the session, Dobrin connects local and global initiatives, highlighting the efforts of the Florida Consortium for AI Learning (FALCON) to build a collaborative state network for instructors across state colleges and public universities. He demystifies the mechanics of large language models, discussing the rise of specialized, niche-specific academic platforms that shift the conversation away from simplistic academic integrity disputes toward proactive curriculum design and hands-on experimental learning. Emphasizing the critical need for robust professional development, Dobrin provides an insightful roadmap for instructors to build authentic AI literacy while maintaining human-centric classroom experiences that protect traditional teaching philosophies from institutional obsolescence.

Year:

2024

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kfdxCRaUs

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Keywords:

#GenerativeAIInClassrooms #FacultyDevelopment #FALCONConsortium #AILiteracy #PedagogicalFriction

Duration: 53:43

AI webinar - Sid Dobrin from Univ of Florida with Jeff Grabill Nov 21st, 2024

In this engaging webinar hosted by Eli Review, Dr. Sid Dobrin joins Dr. Jeff Grabill, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Leeds, for a wide-ranging conversation on the evolution of artificial intelligence in academic writing and higher education. Striking a conversational and collaborative tone, Dobrin highlights how institutional perspectives have matured over the two years following open AI drops, moving away from reactive "cheating and plagiarism" anxieties toward a proactive need for faculty development and use-case scenarios. He discusses the sweeping scale of the University of Florida's massive AI infrastructure—including their specialized hyper-academic supercomputing initiatives and a newly formed AI Blue Sky task force—while balancing that scale with the practical realities of smaller vocational institutions facing acute "imposter syndrome" and limited training resources. Throughout the session, Dobrin analyzes pressing macroeconomic and policy topics, explaining how industry demands for transferable "AI literacy" and data security are trickling back into university curricula. He addresses critical societal barriers, including regional broadband disparities, the high financial capital required for premium proprietary databases versus free tools, and the looming legislative chaos of fragmented, state-level compliance mandates. Crucially, Dobrin wraps up the webinar by steering the discussion back to composition theory, asserting that generative software forces a radical, post-process interrogation of our most deep-seated romantic ideals surrounding agency, subjectivity, and the concept of an autonomous, authentic writer.

Year:

2024

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3lUYvcma9E

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Keywords:

#AIAndWriting #FacultyDevelopment #AILiteracy #CompositionTheory #EducationalTechnology

Duration: 51:50

In, On, Under: (Post) Human/Ocean

In this compelling keynote address titled "In, On, Under: (Post) Human/Ocean," delivered for the Sea More Blue series, Dr. Sid Dobrin merges his extensive expertise in the blue humanities and digital media to offer a series of radical provocations regarding humanity's relationship with Marine environments. Reflecting on his lifetime spent on the coast and working as a boat captain, scuba instructor, and environmental advocate, Dobrin challenges the traditional, terrestrial-biased linear thinking that historically dominates humanities scholarship. He introduces the concept of the "hyper-ocean"—drawing on Baudrillard’s theory of hyperreality—by analyzing Kelly Slater's multi-million dollar artificial wave pool. This "perfect wave," engineered far away from actual saltwater, serves as a powerful analog for how technology commodifies nature, separating human experience from the unpredictability of the real ocean. The talk shifts into a philosophical critique of the blue humanities as an academic enterprise, probing whether traditional humanistic legacy values can adapt to fluid, aquatic frameworks without anthropomorphizing or rewriting marine environments inside pre-established capitalistic structures. Dobrin then delivers a striking meta-provocation to the audience, revealing that out of the 30 oceanic images shown in his presentation, all but five were entirely AI-generated. He uses this confession to illustrate how no-code digital tools operate with immense rhetorical velocity, generating synthetic visual memories that feed back into large language models and permanently alter our cultural imaginary of spaces that do not exist. Ultimately, Dobrin rejects nostalgic pining for unmediated reality, urging scholars to instead lean into critical inquiry, posthumanism, and rigorous digital literacy to navigate an increasingly simulated world.

Year:

2025

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyIAAwCYYs

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Keywords:

#HyperReality #Posthumanities #BlueEcocriticism #CulturalImaginary #DigitalHumanities

Duration: 10:15

Sid Dobrin: Keywords in Blue Humanities - Fish

In this presentation for the Keywords in Blue Humanities symposium, Dr. Sid Dobrin explores the complex ontological, political, and socio-economic realities behind the deceptively simple keyword "fish." Drawing on his dual background as a critical theorist at the University of Florida and a lifelong saltwater angler deeply embedded in the recreational sport fishing industry, Dobrin unpacks how language strips marine organisms of their individual animal agency. He explains that global economic metrics inherently reduce fish to a faceless aggregate measured in pounds or metric tons—effectively casting them into a state of "bare life" optimized solely for human consumption. Throughout the talk, Dobrin deconstructs the marketed facades of the "blue economy" and sustainable "wild-caught" harvesting, framing them as forms of corporate greenwashing that often obscure staggering catch volumes, ecological damage, and severe levels of bycatch. Furthermore, he bridges the gap between marine ecology and environmental justice by detailing the geopolitical conflicts surrounding "blue protein," noting that the global demand for food security has fueled massive illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing operations. Highlighting independent data on China's massive distant-water fleet—estimated to exceed 17,000 vessels—Dobrin exposes how modern industrial fishing directly encroaches on the food security of small island and coastal nations, ultimately entangling the study of "fish" with catastrophic human rights violations, human trafficking, and maritime forced labor.

Year:

2026

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BaPV66eJY

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Keywords:

#BlueHumanities #BlueProtein #IUUFishing #MoreThanHumanAgency #EnvironmentalJustice

Duration: 36:19

AI in Research: Global Regulations, Risks & What Researchers Must Know | Sid Dobrin (UF)

In this comprehensive webinar hosted by SciSpace, Dr. Sid Dobrin delivers an informative provocation on the highly volatile, shifting landscape of global AI regulations and their direct impact on scientific research. Moving beyond broad ethical debates, Dobrin focuses on the concrete requirements of professional rigor, data sovereignty, and provenance—the auditable, machine-readable record of an AI's intervention in data. He provides a masterclass on navigating 2026 global compliance mandates, contrasting the U.S. federal funding pivot (such as the NIH and NSF "intellectual spark" audits designed to disqualify automated grant milling) with Europe’s strict, imminent penalties for high-risk educational and infrastructure systems under the EU AI Act. Furthermore, Dobrin expands the geographic horizon by detailing Asia's mandatory digital watermarking models, China's localized algorithmic filing laws, Latin America's regulatory sandboxes, and the African Union's anti-extractive policies designed to halt "parachute science" and defend digital sovereignty. Ultimately, he outlines five strategic recommendations for university leadership and principal investigators, explaining that the academic community has officially transitioned from an honor system to an audit system where human-in-the-loop validation is the only way to safeguard funding and institutional integrity.

Year:

2026

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKlTLU7m1So

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Keywords:

#AIInResearch #GlobalAIRegulation #DataSovereignty #ResearchIntegrity #Provenance

Duration: 08:53

Exclusive Interview: Sid Dobrin & Craig Engstrom Discussing AI's Impact

In this interview recorded at Southern Illinois University’s (SIU) Center for Teaching Excellence, Dr. Sid Dobrin joins Dr. Craig Engstrom to discuss the profound implications of artificial intelligence on the higher education landscape. Reflecting on his day interacting with SIU faculty and administrators, Dobrin shares his impressions of the campus’s forward-thinking approach, noting the collaborative potential of spaces like their new Center for Virtual Expression (CivEx). He breaks down the three foundational pillars necessary for effective AI implementation—data, computing power, and human expertise—and outlines how universities should align AI integration with their existing institutional missions rather than rushing to create rigid, blanket policies. Crucially, Dobrin argues for an inclusive approach to policy-making that respects disciplinary contexts and protects traditional, award-winning educators from feeling obsolete if technology doesn't align with their teaching philosophies. Concluding with a preview of his academic contributions, including his textbooks and collections on AI's intersection with writing and the humanities, this discussion highlights the need for balanced, human-centered strategies as universities navigate the technological renaissance.

Year:

2024

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKNiRJx4MM

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Keywords:

#HigherEducationAI #AIPolicy #HumanitiesAndAI #AIInTheClassroom #SidDobrin

Duration: 40:56

Sid Dobrin on Why Consumers Need to Slow Down in the Age of AI

In this featured episode of the Grit Daily Startup Show, Dr. Sid Dobrin discusses his book The Not So Perfect Machine: What Every Consumer Needs to Know About Artificial Intelligence, shifting the conversation away from corporate productivity and toward the unseen ways AI operates as daily consumer infrastructure. Drawing on everyday examples—such as predictive retail models, ride-share pricing algorithms, and generative content—he explains how modern systems are intentionally engineered to eliminate "friction," which historically served as the brief moment of human hesitation that guarded against impulse decisions or deception. Describing how platforms create an illusion of endless variety by recombining a limited set of data ingredients (a concept he titles the "Taco Bell principle"), Dobrin highlights the growing vulnerabilities consumers face from synthetic media, targeted fraud, and deepfakes designed to outpace critical thought. Ultimately, he introduces a practical "delayed response mandate," arguing that introducing a deliberate, manual pause before reacting to digital content is essential to restoring human judgment, establishing realistic AI literacy, and successfully navigating an increasingly automated marketplace. To watch the full discussion on regaining consumer control, check out the interview on the Grit Daily Startup Show featuring Sid Dobrin, which explores the balance between the efficiency of these tools and the necessity of maintaining personal friction.

Year:

2026

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q82HYAPFu4Q&t=1616s

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Keywords:

Here are the 5 most high-impact key terms to use as tags balancing your unique frameworks with the broad topics event organizers search for: #ConsumerAI #AILiteracy #FrictionlessCommerce #TheNotSoPerfectMachine #SidDobrin

Duration: 2:06

From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The Impact of AI on K-12 Education

During the April 2025 House Subcommittee hearing titled "From Chalkboards to Chatbots: The Impact of AI on K-12 Education," lawmakers and experts gathered to address the rapidly evolving opportunities and risks of integrating artificial intelligence tools into America’s classrooms. Testifying at this hearing, Dr. Sid Dobrin, Chair of the Department of English at the University of Florida, emphasized that artificial intelligence should be approached as a tool for cognitive augmentation rather than automation. Acknowledging that students are already widely utilizing these technologies, Dobrin warned against letting the software completely replace critical thinking, noting that while AI can enhance problem-solving skills, it can also lead to instances where students simply let the technology do the work for them. To safely and effectively harness its full potential while keeping humans at the center of education, he urged for a demystification of various AI tools, a commitment to keeping "the human in the loop," and the initiation of long-term research to better understand how human expertise and AI can productively coexist in learning environments. You can watch the full session and public testimonies via this House Hearing on the Impact of AI on K-12 Education, which provides the complete visual and verbal context of the subcommittee's bipartisan policy discussion.

Year:

2025

Link:

https://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/from-chalkboards-to-chatbots-the-impact-of-ai-on-k-12-education

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Artificial Intelligence K-12 Education State and federal legislation