Artificial Intelligence in School:

a necessary discussion

Abstract

The article presents a case study on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) usage at the Arraial do Cabo campus of the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Rio de Janeiro, IFRJ. To this end, thirty-six technical high school students were interviewed, using the Blip Viratexto tool for transcription. The textual corpus was intended to be organized for analysis using the free software Iramuteq, but the course of the research proved it more efficient to use AI itself to emulate the traditional tool. AI not only organized the material in the Iramuteq style but also produced interpretations in a simple and sophisticated manner. The research yielded results on two fronts: 1) Pedagogical: the pressing need to discuss the uses of AI in education; 2) Methodological: the possibility of using AI as a tool in qualitative research. The entire journey undertaken by the professor and his young scholarship students indicates the need for further exploration, to the point of generating a study on the social representation of artificial intelligence.