Beyond human: Artificial Intelligence and education

Abstract

The current scientific and technological development has generated momentous changes in different spheres of society’s life. Today, reference is made to the fourth scientific-technological revolution that has introduced important transformations for the benefit of society. These advancements are innumerable, but at the same time they have somewhat blurred what is beneficial or not for humans with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The boundaries of its use generate multiple controversies and face profound ethical dilemmas. It is not always  evident that the use of AI is always useful: sometimes it generates conflicts, contradictions, and dilemmas which are not always shared by everyone, as well as the extent to which it can be used and the degree of its positive or negative impact. Therefore, what to say when AI attempts to replace human thought, especially in higher education? The benefits of artificial intelligence in higher education, particularly in the personalized attention of students, should not be overlooked, but at the same time these particularities become conflicts associated with learning, raising questions about the legitimacy of its use. For this reason, the primary focus of this study is on substantiating, within the benefits and limitations for students and professors in higher education, the ethical limits on which the use of artificial intelligence as an educational technology rests, along with the combined use of active methodologies to promote multiple intelligences in the students’ learning process and the ways to solve their conflicts.