Whither or wither the AI of AIED?

This position paper explores the relationship between the his- toric roots of AIED and the challenges of restricting our vision to EdTech that has It argues that the founders of AIED had a broad vi- sion of the field, primarily driven by the goals of creating advanced technology for personalised learning. They were not wedded to a tech- no-centric view, demanding use of particular techniques that are now thought of as AI. The paper argues that we have accepted work with no AI, notably in Open Learner Modelling. We discourage, either di- rectly or just because of our name, work that is true to the AIED found- ersu0027 vision. In doing so, we miss many exciting and promising ways to create better technology for education.