AI Educator: Moving from a Rush to a Measured Approach in Education

In this episode of The AI Educator, Andrea Claver from EDSAFE AI speaks with Mary Burns, Independent Researcher and Co-Author of the Brookings Institution report on AI in education. As AI reforms education systems, Mary explains how this shift can revitalize a liberal arts education, cultivate flexible cognitive thinking, and force a deep conversation about the true purpose of schooling. She cautions educators and leaders against treating AI safety as a purely user-side responsibility, emphasizing that the most critical risks are structural and architectural vulnerabilities inherent to the technology itself. Additionally, with the rapid pace of AI development, Mary advises overwhelmed educators that it is okay to pause and take their time, urging schools to step back from an unchecked adoption agenda and critically evaluate whether these tools should be introduced at all.