My third piece for Forbes.com, entitled “The AI Education Leapfrog in the Global South,” has just been published. The work quotes Harvard scholars Seiji Isotani, who has developed the AIED Unplugged project in Brazil, reaching hundreds of thousands of students, and Rem Koning, who has studied the use of AI in Kenya to help small business owners. The piece considers the benefits and risks of AI deployment at scale and cautions that responsible use of AI requires development with local experts and context to ensure that AI provides widespread benefits for populations. Some recent research has shown that AI can harm learning and reduce social connections among AI users, and the piece describes this research and efforts to develop local capacity for responsible AI deployment in Africa. The piece is available at this link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanpenprase/2024/09/24/the-ai-education-leapfrog-in-the-global-south/