Ray Schroeder is an education technology scholar, a senior fellow at UPCEA and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Springfield. He helped establish the university's online learning program and writes about online education, professional learning and emerging technologies.
DI has documented statements by Ray Schroeder on Artificial Intelligence, Education, and Privacy. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Education technology scholar and Inside Higher Ed columnist
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Schroeder argues that rapid AI development needs rigorous testing and ethical constraints before use outside controlled environments. He identifies Anthropic among the competing frontier companies. He supports AI's potential while warning that speed can undermine review and alignment.
“those rules must be thoroughly tested in the lab before the algorithm is allowed to be applied outside rigorously constrained test environments.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Ray Schroeder argues for rigorous safeguards on self-improving AISigned September 30 Inside Higher Ed opinion column
Why we used this label
Schroeder supports AI development conditionally on strong constraints and testing before deployment.
Role at the time: Ray Schroeder, education technology scholar
Condemned
Statement summary
Schroeder argues that extended school AI moratoria sacrifice useful tutoring and adaptive-learning tools. He says home use on personal computers requires additional family funding, initiative and persistence.
“To call a moratorium on the use of AI in schools for the next one to three years will result in significant losses”
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI were irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while praising Anthropic's current practices. Responses dispute catastrophic-risk forecasts, working inside AI labs, and whether governments should pause or regulate development.
Microsoft and teachers’ unions promote enforceable school-AI safeguards. Fairplay’s Josh Golin wants a five-year pause, while New York City permits restricted high-school pilots. Critics of those pilots say they should wait for evidence and assessment criteria.
