How can a safe and innovative approach to GenAI make AI accessible to every student, even without connectivity?
Bett UK 2025 is approaching, and we are excited to announce that we will be there to present an exclusive preview of a SAFE and innovative solution that makes GenAI accessible to all students, even in offline contexts.
Bett is one of the largest and most prestigious educational technology fairs in the world, bringing together edtech specialists, decision-makers, and leaders in the education sector from around the globe. This event is the perfect opportunity to explore the latest innovations, discover new technological solutions, and network with industry leaders. If you want to stay ahead in the world of education, Bett UK is an unmissable opportunity!
This year, we are pleased to present a technology preview of our unique and secure approach to GenAI, specifically developed for the education sector.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly the most significant technological advancement of recent decades. In the education sector, its impact can be truly transformative, offering the ability to personalize learning, optimize teaching, and empower administrators to manage educational systems more effectively. However, this technological revolution faces significant barriers, particularly in regions with limited resources. Implementing AI requires access to advanced infrastructure, stable connectivity, and large amounts of data and energy — resources that are simply unavailable in many parts of the world. For millions of students, especially in developing countries, AI remains a distant concept, reserved for the most technologically advanced economies. While schools in urban areas of developed countries are beginning to adopt AI tools that adapt content to each student’s pace and level, the reality in many regions of the globe is drastically different. In these areas, the lack of access to basic technologies such as the internet and electricity turns AI into an unfulfilled promise, perpetuating cycles of digital exclusion and educational inequality. The danger cannot be ignored: if AI is not made accessible to everyone, it risks widening educational inequalities rather than bridging them. The digital divide — already alarming — could become insurmountable, creating a world where access to quality education is determined solely by one’s birthplace. As students in more developed economies acquire advanced digital skills, their peers in disadvantaged communities are left further behind, without the tools to compete in a global market where digital literacy is increasingly essential.
The impact extends beyond the classroom. Widening this digital divide undermines the economic, social, and cultural progress of entire nations, perpetuating cycles of poverty and deprivation. This imbalance could turn AI into a technology of exclusion, reserved for the privileged, rather than a catalyst for equality.
At Critical Links, we recognize that the challenge we face is clear: to ensure that AI not only revolutionizes education but does so in a fair, accessible, and inclusive way so that everyone, regardless of location or economic conditions, can benefit from this extraordinary advancement. Achieving this will require industry leaders to work together to create a new, safe approach.
We understand that many educational systems face challenges such as unstable connectivity, limited infrastructure, and restricted access to constant energy, especially in remote areas or developing regions. Therefore, we are working on a solution designed to function even in these more challenging contexts, without compromising the quality of education.
We have invested in developing AI solutions that are SAFE: S-ecure, A-ppropriate, F-unctionally specific, and E-conomically feasible. In order for AI in edtech to become globally successful in creating a better world, we believe that all of these aspects of technology need to be delivered.
- Secure: an AI-enabled digital learning environment where sensitive information, PII, etc. is protected from getting ‘out’…and that unsafe data (malware, ransomware, incorrect or illicit information, etc.) is kept from getting ‘in’.
- Appropriate: the data and knowledge that is used by the language models should have ‘guardrails’ that ensure that only appropriate content, both in level of understanding as well as in cultural aspects, is included in AI-based exchanges. Prohibited and forbidden information should not be used for AI-generated synthetic data or conversations, and prompts should be engineered to guide the user based upon their level, their persona, and the tasks at hand.
- Functionally specific: AI has such broad capabilities that in order to be successful, it must be targeted to the specific tasks, user, and outcomes desired at the moment. The concept of personas is key (is this a student? Or a teacher? Or an educational administrator?) to ensure that both the prompting and the output is not only appropriate, but successfully achieves the objectives that the user (and the technology) are seeking to attain.
- Economically Feasible: as noted, AI can consume vast resources – which don’t exist in most classrooms in the world. Massive datacenters and resource-rich cloud accounts are out of reach for most schools, and certainly don’t reach the desktop of K-12 students outside of most North American and Western Europe institutions. That means that very specific engineering needs to take place so that a language model (the ‘brains’ of an AI system) can exist in a school in the African desert or the Amazon rainforest where there is no connectivity, and potentially no external power source. Not only the language model, but the curated data, the processing power, the memory – in short a complete AI solution. This must be able to be deployed anywhere in the world, with a target cost of less than $0.01/student per day.
Don’t miss the opportunity to discover our technology preview at Bett UK! Visit us at the jp.ik booth (SN60) and see how GenAI can transform education in a secure way, even in offline environments.
Pre-schedule a meeting with us to explore this innovative solution firsthand! Don’t miss the chance to discover how AI can help reduce educational inequalities and make the future of learning more accessible to all.
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