The National Education Union's general secretary tells Sky News the government is "running away with itself" over plans to develop teaching tools in classrooms - which could put the education secretary in an awkward position.

The National Education Union (NEU), the largest teaching union in the UK, is concerned AI teaching tools could lead to some in the profession losing work, particularly lower-paid teaching assistants whose tasks could become automated.

Alarm bells were set off in January when the government announced it was giving £1m in funding to 16 tech companies to build teacher AI tools “for feedback and marking, driving high and rising education standards”.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    It would be really stupid to use AI to teach kids. We can’t even get that technology to work correctly for summarizing notifications or providing accurate search results.