As our education system moves further into the age of artificial intelligence, a new book is urging America to remember past harms. On today’s edition of Closer Look with Rose Scott, we focus on AI, starting the conversation with Dr. Kamau Bobb, author of The Bullwhip's Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence and America's Racial Caste System. Dr. Bobb raises questions about the dependency of AI technologies that claim to improve academic outcomes. Plus, he argues why it's important to confront the racial inequities embedded in its history and, if ignored, how an AI-led education will factor in issues of race, history, and literacy disparities among Black students.

Then, can AI co-habitat in harmony with old school, made-by-hand artists? Is technology stealing from creators or is AI widening the creative space? And what are the guardrails around AI? We have a roundtable discussion with Denish Shah, the director of the Department of Marketing at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and Jermaine Lee, known creatively as J. Frequency, an independent artist, creative director, and filmmaker exploring the intersection of contemporary R&B, hip-hop, and artificial intelligence.