Hi! It's been a second since I've updated the Laidlaw community on what I've been up to for my second Laidlaw summer. I've had the exciting privilege to be working in an immersive education setting alongside the support of a professor at Oxford. Since then, I've been diving deep into case studies and literature review on education policy and its implementation on the school level. Having spent the first half of my summer working on healthcare AI and tech policy, this has been a familiar but a refreshing new side to policy work. Through my conversations with the professor and first hand experiences, I've come to the realization that while there are many shiny opportunities for the integration of AI into classrooms, I'm still skeptical about the potential positive impacts it can have on students, teachers, and classrooms. I've learned that supporters of AI in education say that AI can be used to save teachers time on administrative tasks or lesson planning and help them re-center their attention on supporting their students and personalized learning. But I'm concerned about how this could take the human-ness out of the classroom setting, especially at a time where interpersonal development is so essential for young students. While the healthcare space is very keen on its new generation of AI technology for healthcare, education seems to be divided. I've also been thinking about the risks and challenges associated with integrating AI into school systems, whether that's for students' development or access to this digital resource. I find myself seeing many similarities between education issues in the US and the UK that make me want to dig deeper into this. I'm looking forward to providing more updates!