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Oct 30th, From Early Chatbots to Safe AI: Building Secure Education Technology with Dr. Aftab Hussain
In this week's episode, Tim Burnett chats with Dr. Aftab Hussain, an education technology pioneer and founder of Second Mesh. Aftab has been a teacher since the mid-1990s and recently completed his doctorate researching AI in education at Bolton College, where he conducted groundbreaking work on chatbots and safe AI systems.
They discuss:
Aftab's pioneering work developing AI chatbots for education in 2017, years before ChatGPT, including creating robust safeguarding protocols to ensure concerning conversations were properly flagged to appropriate college teams
The critical gaps in the DfE's…
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