WIP: From Tweets to Trends: Tracing the Public's Perception of AI in Education Post-ChatGPT

This study examines public sentiment towards AI in education, focusing on the impact of ChatGPT's launch by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. Analyzing around 80,000 Twitter posts from before and after the launch, we conducted a comprehensive sentiment analysis using a fine-tuned BERT, outperforming traditional methods such as VADER and SVM. We applied an RDD to assess the causal impacts of ChatGPT's introduction on public sentiment track sentiment shifts, highlighting how the introduction of AI technologies like ChatGPT has influenced educational discourse. Our findings reveal significant public sentiment changes post-launch, contributing new insights into AI's role in education and public discourse.