The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education and Its Use in Combating Misinformation

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, permeating various aspects of human society, including education. The use of AI in the field of education has extraordinary potential benefits including improve efficiency, maximize time and energy and increase the general performance of students as well as mitigation of misinformation. Diffusion of misinformation is multifaceted in nature with political, social, and cognitive dimensions. Misinformation however, has the potential to severely influence educational programs, practices, and policies since education is related to wide-ranging implications for students’ learning, achievement, and general well-being. AI models for the recognition, filtering, and counteracting of misinformation utilize deep machine learning algorithms, natural language processing, and data analytics to identify patterns of false information across platforms. The filtering techniques employ algorithms to flag and suppress the spread of misinformation. The application of artificial intelligence has been met with a number of challenges including data privacy concerns as well as algorithmic biases and inaccuracies, over-reliance on artificial intelligence, etc. regardless of these challenges, AI technologies have proven to be highly beneficial in the field of education in many ways including combating misinformation.