🟢 The American Historical Association published its "Guiding Principles for AI in History Education." It's a 9-page document with a nuanced approach to AI & education, including an AI policy template (download it below). Key principles:

1. Historical thinking matters

• Historical thinking remains essential in an age of AI

• Many disciplines and professions are changing; the historical discipline will too

2. Generative AI and its limitations

• AI produces texts, images, audio, and video, not truths

• For all its capacities, generative AI regularly hallucinates content, references, sources, and quotations

• AI introduces a false sense of certainty where uncertainty exists

3. AI literacy

• Banning generative AI is not a long-term solution; cultivating AI literacy is

• Generative AI can be a valuable partner in the classroom

• Creativity is even more essential in an age of generative AI

• Training future history educators requires clear and transparent engagement with generative AI

4. Concrete and transparent policies

• History educators must develop concrete and transparent policies for AI usage and communicate these to students

• Experiment, reflect, revise

5. The value of historical expertise

• Generative AI cannot replace historical methodology

• There are no shortcuts to expertise

• History education must continue to cultivate habits of mind that current and future students will rely on to thrive in a world shaped by generative AI

🟢 Download the full document: historians.org/wp-conte…

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