On the afternoon of 16th October, the 18th Digital Law Youth Academic Salon was successfully held in Y516 classroom of Ji Zhong Building, Jiulong Lake Campus of Southeast University. The salon was hosted by Associate Professor Yang Jie, with the participation of Professor Wang Lusheng, Director of the Social Sciences Office, Associate Professor Xu Minchuan, Associate Professor Chen Daoying, Associate Professor Miao Zeyi, Associate Professor Ren Danli, Teacher Bi Wenxuan, Teacher Bi Sheng, Teacher Wang Yuan, and students from Future Rule of Law and Digital Intelligence Technology Innovation Lab.
Cheng Jie, a master's student of grade 23, shared her work on the topic of ‘The Hidden Injustice of Generative AI-Enabled Education and Its Giving Correction’. Starting from the dilemma of implicit injustice in education caused by generative AI, the study points out that generative AI empowerment expands the injustice in endowment, cognition, and skill education; it also analyzes the mechanism of injustice in education in the context of the state's obligation to pay, and discusses the change of the connotation of the right to make autonomous educational choices in the context of AI-empowered education; and finally, it explores the path of state obligation to pay from the perspective of policy formulation and education system reform, digital cognition standards, assessment, cultivation, and support. Finally, the path of the state's obligation to pay is discussed in terms of policy making and education system reform, digital cognition standards, assessment, cultivation and support system.
In the evaluation session, Ma Xinwei, a graduate student of the 22nd grade of the Master's Degree, put forward the suggestions of optimising the logical arrangement of the arguments, focusing on the correspondence between the improvement measures and the sectoral laws, and strengthening the AI elements in the chapter titles, with regard to the structure of the article, the path of the arguments and the titles of the chapters. Chen Daoying affirmed the novelty of the selected topic, pointing out that the problem can be condensed from the core difference between generative AI-enabled education and traditional smart education; the three aspects of endowment, cognition, and skills should be clearly delineated; in the exposition combined with the theory of the state's obligation to pay, the correspondence of different problems in the implicit injustice in education should be improved and analysed in a typological way; and finally, attention should be paid to the operability of the path of improvement.
In the exchange and discussion session, Associate Professor Xu Minchuan proposed that the unfairness problem based on AI's own characteristics can be analysed under the condition of equal access, and the balance of the interests of the digitally disadvantaged groups should be paid attention to in the process of system design, and the path of improvement should be proposed in combination with sectoral laws; Associate Professor Yang Jie proposed the improvement opinion from the difference between AI education and traditional education, and the impact on the right to education; Associate Professor Ren Danli pointed out that it should be pay attention to the application of AI in education in practice, and clarify the stage and type of education empowered by AI; Mr Bi Wenxuan proposed that the design of the state obligation to pay should be implemented from an economic perspective, combining factors such as economic differences between regions; Mr Bi Sheng introduced the practical impact of AI in professional education and academic writing, combining his professional background; Professor Wang Lusheng made a concluding speech, proposing that the hidden Injustice theory and the content of the right to education stipulated in the Constitution, examining the practical scenarios of AI-enabled education at all stages, indicating the challenges facing education in the digital era and the embodiment of implicit injustice.
The Youth Academic Salon of Digital Law has constructed an academic platform for students to exchange ideas and wisdom on a regular basis, and the joint research between teachers and students not only opens up diversified perspectives and paths for in-depth exploration, but also plays an important role in promoting the digital innovation of legal research and cultivating composite talents of digital law in the new era.
(Zhang Zeyu)