To be sure, AI adaptive-learning algorithms are evolving faster than legislators can deliberate on new regulations for such new "machine learning" innovations. Thus, to get out of the way of "progress," 85 FR 18638 is basically writing a blank check for AI corporations to sell schools and students new e-learning products and ed-tech "updates" without preliminary regulatory permission from the federal government:
[t] he current regulations [which] do not address subscription-based programs or consider programs made possible through artificial intelligence-driven adaptive learning. . . . Because of the time it takes to implement new regulations, it is unlikely that the Department will be able to keep pace with developing technologies and other innovations in real time. These proposed regulations attempt to remove barriers that institutions face when trying to create and implement new and innovative ways of providing education to students, and also provide sufficient flexibility to ensure that future innovations we cannot yet anticipate have an opportunity to move forward without undue risk of a negative program finding or other sanction on an institution.
To put it another way, AI-learning algorithms evolve faster than legislators can regulate, so these new federal rules will "remove barriers" to AI ed-tech progress by allowing educational institutions the "flexibility" to rubberstamp new AI courseware programs without prior regulatory approval from the US Department of Ed.
But if the federal government allows AI ed-tech to develop faster than Congress can regulate, then the Department of Ed will render itself into a mere ceremonial bureaucracy that has abdicated its authority to AI algorithms, which means artificial intelligence will be in the driver's seat taking control of the future of education policy as virtual distance learning becomes the mainstream mode of schooling in a post-corona economy.
It should be noted that Edgar McCulloch, who is a Government Relations representative of the IBM Corporation, sat on the "Accreditation and Innovation negotiating committee" involved in the proposal of these new federal rules. This is worth noting because IBM develops AI ed-tech through its Watson artificial-intelligence program which partners with the globalist Pearson Education LLC: the "world's largest education company," which also runs online schooling companies including Connections Academy.
How much stimulus money will be vacuumed up by online education corporations and AI courseware companies under these new federal rules? Will brick-and-mortar schools be able to survive in a post-corona economy in which people are either heavily travel restricted or too poor to pay for school buildings and human employees? Will human teachers, or even human ethics, survive in a world in which the total deregulation of technocratic advancement exalts AI as the judge, jury, and executioner of human learning?
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