The government has set out its stance on artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, telling schools they “may wish to review” their homework policies, Schools Week reports.
The Department for Education (DfE) released a document on generative AI technology this week.
This comes after exam boards published their own guidance on “protecting the integrity of qualifications” from AI.
The DfE statement said that AI had the potential to reduce workload for teachers but added schools “may wish to review homework policies, to consider the approach to homework and other forms of unsupervised study as necessary to account for the availability of generative AI”.
The DfE also listed a number of other considerations, including the capacity of AI to increase the “sophistication and credibility” of cyber attacks on schools.
The DfE will now bring together experts to work with the education sector and “share and identify best practice and opportunities” using AI.
Speaking at the Bett Show edtech conference earlier this week, education secretary Gillian Keegan said the education sector has “often lagged in tech adoption” and had often not made the most of its benefits.