UM teaching graduate jumps aboard AI education train
University of Montana student Simon Hill, pictured here at Big Sky High School in Missoula, is exploring appropriate uses for artificial intelligence in Montana classrooms. He will graduate from UM on May 11. (UM photo by Coral Scoles-Coburn)
MISSOULA – Growing use of artificial intelligence is hurtling toward American classrooms like a freight train.
You can try to ignore it or get out of the way, but one University of Montana student has firmly stepped onto the tracks to embrace AI.
“We all know this train is not stopping,” said Simon Hill, who will graduate May 11 from UM with a bachelor’s degree in biology. “It’s a new and a very rapidly developing technology. I know there are a lot of concerns with AI, but I also think it can help a lot of people — especially teachers.”
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