Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

"The parent said, 'Only through questioning teachers and school administrators did we learn the researchers would put stickers on children who opted out, but no further information was provided on whether they would still be filmed.'"

That labeling I'm sure would have social consequences- singling out people and giving them a label is a path toward exclusion in other activities and make wearing a sticker a sigma... :(

This is deeply troubling, parents should not have to press so hard on such issues. I've had a growing feeling that schools, and teachers, have been pushing far too much on isolating parents from decision-making about their children.

"The goal of this study is to better understand children’s everyday learning experiences and to develop Al tools that can help assess classroom interaction quality"

This..feels like a worthy goal. Just switch the study to opt-in instead of opt-out and 404media can't get the "ER-MEH-GERD AI" click bait. This is not generative AI and the lead-researcher is an early-childhood education specialist [1].

My kid went to a UC Berkeley adjacent pre-school and had researchers come by all the time, filming and taking notes (after consent forms were signed). They would share their studies with us later, it was very illuminating.

[1]: https://education.uw.edu/about/directory/gail-e-joseph

why can’t we have ai doing everything else so human to human interaction outside of work is free of tech and bullshit

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