THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN THE INTEGRATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CURBING INSECURITY IN IMO STATE UNIVERSITY, OWERRI

Abstract

The researchers investigated the role of education in the integration of artificial intelligence in curbing insecurity in Imo State University. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey. The population of the study was made up of 1550 staff from Imo State university Owerri. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 78 academic staff and 120 non-academic staff. A cluster random sampling technique was used to draw the sample. These represented 12% of academic and non-academic staff, given a total of one hundred and ninety- eight (198) respondents. The researchers utilized a self-constructed ordinal rating scale as the research instrument for the collection of data. The rating scale was titled, “Role of Education in Integrating of Artificial Intelligence in Curbing Insecurity Staff Scale (REIAICISS)”. One shot method of administration was applied to test for reliability on 10 staff from population who do not make up the sample. The reliability index obtained was 0.86. mean, and standard deviation was used to analyze the data related to the research questions and t-test statistical analysis was used to test the hypothesis. The findings revealed that education roles of AI in curbing insecurity in Imo State University to a high extent do not curbing insecurity in the university. The hypothesis also revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean rating academic staff and that non-academic staff on the extent of education roles of AI in curbing insecurity in Imo State University. Based on this finding, it was recommended that since the study found AI Face Detection Technology is not installed in our school, video surveillance cameras, physical access controls and paging and radio systems its necessary that such tools are installed within the schools.