First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Education to Support the Social Inclusion of Communities (AIEDSIC)

This paper argues that AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education) can promote social inclusion by focusing on civic engagement. By teaching the skills of policy reasoning, journalism, and activism, AIED techniques can be used to train an alert and knowledgeable citizenry that can in turn demand policies that promote social inclusion. Unlike the AIED export approach in which we adapt AIED technologies to work in the technological infrastructures of poor countries, AIED for civic engagement could be deployed in rich countries to promote social inclusion in both rich and poor countries. This is because rich country policy often impacts poor country development, and an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can demand more socially inclusive international policies.